January 7
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Name | Progress |
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よつばと！４ | 35% → 54% |
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しろくまカフェ４ | 0% → 39% |
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０１月０７日 | Type | Progress | |
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心霊探偵八雲 vol 1 | novel | 44 → 49/334 pgs | |
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グースバンプス２呪われたカメラ | children’s novel | 135 → 142/189 pgs |
Love having different level reads, feels so good to zoom through Goosebumps at the end of the day 
Also my parsing of the words spelled with hiragana has weirdly improved a lot by reading stuff with more kanji. Or maybe I just know more words now.
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2025-01-07T06:00:00Z
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Book | Category | Progress |
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ディズニームービーブック インサイド・ヘッド | Children’s Novel | 80=>94 / 161 |
Today, I got to read one of my easy books that I didn’t finish in 2024. Such as pleasure as I’m now over halfway through.
I love this line:
さよなら、友情。こんにちは、孤独。
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I’ve been finding this as well - I think it’s really a case of you know when words are used in what situations and so you’re better primed to expect them. Maybe?
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Yes, I agree. Any amount of reading is valuable learning and practice.
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Had a bit of a frustrating day yesterday, due to real life issues, so didn’t end up posting. 
I couldn’t bring myself to expend the energy to read 名探偵コナン, but I was able to convince myself to read the first chapter of Major volume 5, which is much less dense and thus takes a lot less time and energy!
And I was feeling much better today, so I went back to コナン for another chapter, bringing me to about 2/3 of the way through the volume. Hoping I can finish the volume by the end of the week!
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Main post
Progressing a bit through 新一星’s collection of short stories.
Progress: 22,11% —> 24,51%
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5/1 4 pages Spy Family light novel (finished short novel 1), 9 pages 約束のネバーランド, aDoIJG わけがない and やる(1)
6/1 6 pages 舞妓さんちのまかないさん (finished chapter 64)
7/1 6 pages 約束のネバーランド
Struggling with lack of sleep for last few days, which together with work has resulted in less reading than planned.
Sunday I was tired after hunting for the cat all evening, but managed a bit. Other two days I was only able to manage a token effort.
Main aim next few days is to finish the Intermediate grammar dictionary or get as close as possible to doing so. It looks like the advanced one doesn’t start too badly so I hope I can finish this one first!
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Book | Pages |
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ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 6 | 87 - 90 |
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Book | Pages |
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ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 6 | 91 |
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STEEL BALL RUN 8 | start - 15 |
I’ve been forgetting to update and apparently doing minimal reading. I am genuinely confused. Although the 6th had an incredibly text heavy page all about nazis, so that was exhausting to read.
I’m going to do a lot more reading today though. I have about 20 grammar questions left before I read.
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8th jan 
managed two chapters of 3月のライオン’s yap man this time, so i’m calling that a success. made good progress on psycho-pass too! aside from once much earlier, it’s not deviated from the show much, if at all (not that i was expecting it to). nice to have some inner monologue and expansion of stuff the show kind of skims over tho.
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3月のライオン vol 15 | 43-67 |
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龍が如く7外伝 | grind grind and more grind |
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psycho-pass novelisation 上 | 192-208 |
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black sun | 265-317 |
today’s nhk article was this one (cabbage price rises) plus the entries on とあっては and とばかりに in aDoAJG
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Now I’m up to page 468/777 of 理由 by 宮部みゆき, kind of mixed feelings about the writing style because I like the exposition and attention to detail but sometimes there’s just too much detail especially the chapter about the 競売物件 that easily could have been condensed into a couple of pages. Thanks to the “educational” parts, the parts that actually move the plot forward feel kind of a breeze to read in comparison.
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Home
Ok, we’re a week into the challenge and I’ve actually managed to read every day! Here’s my beautiful, not formatted log!
1/1: Short Stories for Japanese Learners
1/2: Bunpro reading practice, よつばと! 2
1/3: Short Stories for Japanese Learners
1/4: Short Stories for Japanese Learners
1/5: Random Bookwalker previews, lol
1/6: Tadoku graded reader stories (my quest to read them all continues!)
1/7: Short Stories for Japanese Learners - Finished!
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Yeah, I think it’s a case of being better able to expect the words used in a sentence, suddenly the hiragana-only parts of sentences in these children’s books aren’t as confusing as they used to be because I can kind of ‘see’ the word borders better.
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I feel this so much. I think there have been two chapters where I was like “this could have been 2-4 paragraphs and I would have gotten just as much valuable info from it”.
Have you read her before? Some of her books are worse about info dumps like this than others
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January 8th - Home post
ふらいんぐうぃっち 2 plus a little Aokana again today. Reading ふらいんぐうぃっち makes me so happy! And even more so when I find kanji and vocab in the text that I learned this week on Wanikani!
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Title | Read | Progress |
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生き残った6人によると | ch 5 | 83% |
One of those where it would have been more of a surprise if not for knowing a second volume exists and therefore the rescue was doomed to fail.
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Disclaimer
申し訳ないけど the only thing that I read (no matter the language) with genuine interest is fanfiction. All of those are from カラオケ行こ / ファミレス行こ fandom, so consider yourself warned. They are listed in chronological order (the one I am currently reading comes last). As they vary in length, sometimes it takes me a couple of days to get through a single one~Structure
I shall report once a month on my progress + I update this post daily to keep myself motivated. At the end of it, I will also share my favourite ff~ I might also continue through March if I am not dying with university at that point.January
Reading List (January)
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Title | Completion |
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醜聞 | 100% |
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青天の霹靂 | 100% |
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仮祝言 | 100% |
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着いてこんとって！ | 100% |
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泥 | 100% |
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歌声、轟かせて （歌声シリーズ） | 100% |
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歌声、コーラスは密やかに （歌声シリーズ） | 100% |
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歌声、あなたのためだけの （歌声シリーズ） | 100% |
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咆哮、月下に鳴響き（歌声シリーズ） | 100% |
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ファーストキス | 100% |
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あの世行き片道切符 | 100% |
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午前三時。天気は雨 | 100% |
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狂聡を見守る会 | 100% |
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じゃあ、僕にキスを教えてください | 100% |
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あきらめた後の物語 | 100% |
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何度、出逢っても、きっと | 100% |
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さよなら、俺の愛したヤクザ | 100% |
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ハタチの選択 | 100% |
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アイツについて僕が知りたい、十の事柄 | 100% |
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サラバ、愛しき悲しみたちよ | 12% → continued in February |
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| 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
February
Reading List (February)
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Title | Completion |
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サラバ、愛しき悲しみたちよ | 100% |
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ワールズエンド・スーパーノヴァ | 100% |
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夜明け (蒲田ノクターンシリーズ part 1) | 100% |
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東京オカン (蒲田ノクターンシリーズ part 2) | 100% |
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蒲田ノクターン (蒲田ノクターンシリーズ part 3) | 100% |
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ファミレス行こ (chapter 14) | 100% |
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星を掴む | 100% |
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ムーンレイカー | 100% |
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塞いで | 100% |
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鶴は今日も夜に歌う | 5% → stopped |
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これだから愛というものは | 100% |
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それは溢れる直前の | 100% |
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欲しいものはひとつだけ | 100% |
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お疲れ彼氏とスーパーダーリン | 74% |
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| 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
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1月9日
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四つ子ぐらし 2 | Kid’s novel |  88% → 100% COMPLETE |
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付き合ってあげてもいいかな 1 | Manga |  27% → 36% |
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ボッチ1 | Manga |  84/119 (70%) |
- Another two (short) chapters to wrap 四つ子。This series is probably my favourite of the kids’ books I’ve read so far, especially when it gets Big Emotions. My only thing is the main character doesn’t actually seem to do too much and is more of a passive observer, but they address that in the book somewhat.
- Another chapter of How Do We Relationship, might read another today. Still pretty breezy.
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You read this quickly! I think I’ll listen to these as an audiobook at some point.
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I think the nice thing is the book’s ‘gimmick’ isn’t crafts or food or whatever, it’s about the character and her sisters and their relationships, so it all feeds comfortably into the same nexus, and even though it’s using relatively simple words it feels very intensely nonetheless.
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