📚📚 Read every day challenge - Summer 2022 🏖 ☀

[MissDagger]

August 7
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Night Café page 96 → 97 (2 pages)

Technically I only read 1,5 page yesterday but I’m not gonna bother with fractional pages. So I’m half a page generous with yesterday’s amount.

I’ve been cat sitting for the past 3 weeks. So I’ve been going between my home and my friends’ home to watch cats, while not entirely abandoning my own home.

But that gig ended when my friends came back home yesterday when I was in the middle of my second page, and then they invited me to stay overnight anyway to do some gaming together. So no more reading for me.

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Replies

@omk3

I started feeling rather unwell soon after. Hope it wont last long, but I doubt I’ll have the energy to read at all today.

Get well soon!

@Belerith

I went reasonably well! We managed to move all the big furniture as well as most of the stuff I packed to the new place and actually put it back together again so I had a place to sleep, even!

I totally missed that ‘also’ too. Glad your move went well!

@Redglare

@NicoleRauch I’ve seen you share decks from jpdb across a few threads, so I decided to try it out. It’s been 9 days since I started and it’s kinda addictive, not gonna lie I probably spent more time on SRS than reading today. It’s also fun how at one point, 20% of Kekkon vocab = 80% coverage across the series. After that there are just a ton of unique or low-frequency words. I mean, look, it’s currently
at only 33% vocab and not even 90% coverage! o: Stats are fun.

I was thinking I’d use koohi after finishing WK to specifically prepare to read specific book series. I wonder if someone have compared koohi with jpdb.

@lucylavelle

In bad news… I was dressed for a 5 minute walk to the shop, not 4 hours in the sun, so I am now horribly sunburnt - not sure how much reading I’ll get done tomorrow, because right now I’m sore and a bit nauseous!

Ack! Bad sunburns are the worst. I hope it settles quickly.

@windupbird

I do know it exists! Although you wouldn’t know it from my presence (or lack there of) in the threads xD I’ve been meaning to go through and read all the spoilered stuff for the last two chapters, so this is a good reminder I’m generally not the best at actually discussing things I read though tbh haha, it stresses me out a little bit in a weird way that’s difficult to explain - not to say that I never enjoy doing it but it just takes a little more mental space for me to do it and I’m running a bit short on that at the moment I did order the rest of the series yesterday though, so hopefully I’ll pop in at some point

No worries. I’m glad you’re enjoying our discussions if nothing else. ^^

For myself, I’ve realized I have to plan for spending up to 2 hours outside the reading to fill in the spreadsheet and write my longwinded posts about the reading.

@pocketcat

A lot of the references were to Agatha Christy’s books, Sherlock Holmes, and other Western works so you might be fine assuming you have familiarity with the genre in English. I do wish I’d read more Japanese mystery classics before reading it though, so I could appreciate those references more fully. Even without that, though, I still had a blast.

Oooh, this is starting to sound like a book I would like to read. I’ve read quite a few Agatha Christy and I know a lot of Sherlock Holmes (although I should really read the originals!). So I guess I should read some of the Japanese mystery classics first. Would it be spoilery to share some books I should/could aim to read before this?

@WaniTsunami

Read the first chapter of a Professor Layton novel.

There are novels? I’ve played several of the games (although in English).