About reading 薬屋 cc: lifev
I agree. For me it was a lot of lookups and it took time, but eventually you learn the vocab and get used to the grammar. Sometimes there are words where BookWalker wouldn’t allow me to pick up the text - turns out it was literal Chinese characters/hanzi which I mentioned here (no spoilers).
Also here’s a post where Naphthalene wrote about the difficulty.
[2025] 多読/extensive reading challenge - #2533 by Naphthalene
And we’ve read it with the ABC in case you didn’t know! Lots of questions and answers there.