Here are most of my Japanese books (on my kindle Oasis with a nice cover):
And here is an almost complete list from bookmeter.com:
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What’s the 英語術 book?
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It’s a memoir by the figure skater Miyahara Satoko about her figure skating and English learning journey. I’ve read about 30% of it so far and it’s very very easy to read (since most of the vocab is related to her everyday life and most of the figure skating vocab comes from English, it’s L24 on Natively) while also being interesting.
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Hmm, maybe that can be my nonfiction bingo square after I finish the book club reads
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Got my first physical order in a while. It’s 90% Saiyuki and Tsubasa but I also got the full set of Raven of the Inner Palace novels and some misc books.
I got the first Saiyuki series twice on purpose. The big ones are nice to hold but the A4 size covers were just too pretty. Somehow they squeezed it all in a tiny volume especially compared to the special hardback English edition I have.
I also bought a LOT of kindle novels from Amazon but that’s another story. 
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Wow, Saiyuki is like one of my ultimate goals for distant future when my reading would be much improved (along with other 峰倉’s works). It’s so pretty! 
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I forgot to share one last bit of my haul from earlier this year. (Stacking same series on top of itself. Also got the first volume of the series that starts with volume 2.)
I bought かわいすぎる人よ！because I got a booklet sample of it and the sample was just 可愛すぎ！
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I’ve read about half of volume 1 and probably won’t get to more of it for a while yet, so I thought I’d let you know how I feel now, because I have quite literally no idea when I’ll get back to it.
I think it does a good job of switching between telling facts and telling history as a story. Just when the facts are getting to be a bit much, it switches back to story mode. It is so much easier to care about history when you have some people/characters to root for.
It explains several terms, sometimes with a footnote and sometimes in regular text boxes/further dialog.
So far I’m happy that I got it.
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That’s an interesting mix.
Though, that reminds me, I was gonna try nominating Dr Stone for a book club…
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It was a little informed by what was in stock at my local retailer of japanese language books, I have to admit. Hence frieren volume 2, I guess I’ll need to read volume 1 digitally still.
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From up to down, left to right:
Kumo desu ga, nani ka? (Ongoing)
Nodame Cantabile (Incommensurable amount of laughs 
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Seven Deadly Sins (Not my favorite… Purchased in japan for a ridiculously cheap price 
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Claymore (Oh Clare, you’ll be my first love forever)
Not here in my current home but in a satellite bookshelf, I also have a Kanji Dictionary from years ago (before the smartphone era) and an almost complete collection of picture books, mainly from Ghibli (Tokuma anime ehon).
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Oh, Yuru Camp was out on the 12th. For some reason I was thinking it was next week. Time to go haunt my local Kinokuniya until they get it in.
What’s this たったひとりのサバイバルゲーム series? For some reason, I’m thinking they’re some sort of choose-your-own-adventure books?
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They are! Found them through one of the random threads here and then found out there’s 6 different books and ordered them all! Muhahhaa
It’s shosetu style too so looking forward to trying them out!
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yess! popping in here to say that we have a book club for this series and are currently reading the first book hehe
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oh might need to join will see im already reading too much
but yeah this is how i found it!
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oh that’s cool!! you’re welcome to join any time 
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