Natively go up to
Come on…
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That story was so hard 
One day…
I wasn’t expecting it since 痴人の愛 was actually relatively easy given how old it is (same author)
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I even own a few books in the 45-50 range, so one day for sure 
So together we are level 52 then. Maybe if we both read a L26 book, would that count as well? 
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Great idea! I was getting nervous myself about reaching level 35 and up. Of course that would count! The idea is to read more, not to get stressed about the difficulty levels!
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…無理無理無理無理。
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Read this tadoku L10 story of Floyd Schmoe, really cool to actually learn something about this man. Seems like a good man
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New rule: If you’re below level 30, read your level. If you’re above level 30, read your level or two books at half your level. That way we can keep going to level 60!
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It was a pain to setup the account but victory has been achieved.
I did not have to use a vpn but had to fiddle a bit with the account settings, if anyone is interested the details are in a section of my study log first post.
Step by step guide to setup an amazon kindle jp account
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Neat idea but I got a question. What if we level after the challenge starts? Is it just based on starting level? I’ll be 19 tomorrow so trying to determine if I should pick 18 or 19, or higher.
(Though a Level 19 book in under 2 weeks would probably be alright for me. I’m usually reading 25-31 anyway. Would be a bonus challenge to complete before reaching 20)
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Personally I’ll just add a book for each level if that’s doable.
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Do what you like! My level 28 book is hard and I’ll probably level up before I finish it. More levels, more reading, more fun!
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leveling up tomorrow~
i wonder what level 10 books there might be >w<
edit:
oh, i actually read シュモーハウス when pandoravakarian posted it, lol, whoops
i don’t know if anything else looks interesting (sticking to free books for now)
unsure if i want to read 泣く女 xD;
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Opened Natively, clicked L27-33, and Kino’s Journey was on the first row. I got the first books almost 13 years ago when I knew no kanji or much Japanese, and never got around to reading them. I take this as a sign.
Haven’t really read any longer texts or books in Japanese until now, just lots of shorter messages that come up on youtube comments etc. To my surprise I think I understood most of it in the first 10 text pages. Kind of want to get the English translation now to compare, though.
It feels like I’m always confused about when furigana is used. 緩 doesn’t have furigana but 誰 does, what?
Though now that I check, both are junior high school kanji in the Jōyō order, huh. And I was going to mention being surprised that 喋 has furigana, but apparently it’s not even in the Jōyō list! The more you know.
(also though my level is 33, I was behind in vocab lessons, so the 30 that Kino is at is more accurate! I swear!)
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Mmm, I’ve never been able to figure out when things are and are not given furigana. It seems to be a human making the decision, because there are plenty of cases where it’s clearly not a mechanical algorithm like “always furigana these kanji” or “furigana on first use”, because you can find texts where a word appears several times and only gets furigana the third time…
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Well I’m technically level 1 (who knew). I guess I actually played with WK at some point in the past (which would explain the account).
Anyway, I read すみません | L1 and it was actually pretty charming. 
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that reminded me, I have a WK level, too!
so I read one based on this rave review
Thanks Dave:
山に行きました | L7
Spoiler: The dog does not burn the forest to the ground
But a heck of a lot of people sure think so:
But yes, the drawings were “definitely illustrated”
I had no idea the Tadoku comments section was such a riot
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I legitimately can’t tell if those are meant to be a joke or if people are really concerned Japanese learners will succumb to the bad influence of dog arsonists (that… aren’t actually? 冤罪！)
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Me neither! I admit to puzzling over it for a while and being entertained far beyond expectations for the comments section of a level 7 story
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