📚📚 Read every day challenge - Summer 2022 🏖 ☀

September 15 :blossom: Home Post

I accidentally went chaos mode again today, but I think in a way that’s more on brand for me than most of my reading habits lately? :joy: Anyway I was looking through some steam sales and stumbled upon this game called モノマギア・カンタービレ that sounded interesting and had a demo so I tried it out and… I don’t know what to make of it really; it’s an otome that has some real mysterious vibes and also started out with a whole thing about how messed up war is and this old guy’s experiences with performing sketchy experiments during the war and also you fight people by playing speed?? I’m sold :joy: I got the most solid reading day I’ve had in ages out of it so :man_shrugging: It’s on sale so I’ll probably end up getting it, I’m very curious to see what in the world is happening lmao.

So I think what I’ve learned is that when I have more regular obligations, book clubs are the opposite of motivating for me :joy: I also can’t generally muster the motivation for stuff that feels more challenging, so while Steins;Gate isn’t like ridiculous I’ll probably hold off on it for now. We’ll see how this VN goes, it definitely feels like an easier read even though there’s way less voice acting. Whatever works!

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Just checking, everyone is aware of the whole one click to make a vocabulary card that has the word on front, and reading+pitch+definitions from multiple dictionaries+audio+the sentence you saw it in on the back thing right?

Im pretty sure you read physical books so it doesn’t apply as much to you, but I figure it’s good to make sure you everyone else is aware of this option with ebooks. I use Anki and I limit myself to 20 cards a day, and I spend 0 seconds making any of those cards.

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On the subject of card-making for physical book readers, I recently stumbled into a workflow that seems to be working out OK. When I’m reading, if I see a word I don’t know and care about enough to look up, I look it up in my electronic dictionary. Later on, maybe once every few days, I use the dictionary’s lookup history function to get a list of those words. I’m using jpdb at the moment, which has an “add words from textbox” feature, so I can just type the words in there; but any setup which can create cards from a list of bare words should work fine too. You don’t get the “original sentence where found” part, which is a shame but unavoidable.

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I haven’t been able to post for days but I’ve been reading every day on the dive boat. I finally found an offline dictionary I like (imiwa) and that’s been a lifesaver.

I’ve been keeping up with both 夜カフェ and Spy Family, and slowly catching up with Orange - I’ve read nearly half of volume 2. My best progress has been with Tugumi - I was quite behind at the start of the trip, but I’ve just started chapter 7 (which is admittedly meant to be read by today!). This means I’m over halfway through the book!

I should be able to do a further catch up as I have lots of travel time home including over 24 hours in Jakarta.

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Definitely, this is exactly how I’m making them so effortlessly. I think I wouldn’t be using Anki at all if I had to make my own cards, but it’s so stupidly easy to make them with yomichan so I’ve been using that method and honestly I love it. Even when I mine from regular video games with Game2Text I add them with yomichan and copy&paste the context sentence, the whole thing takes a second. I tried several other SRS platforms but I settled for Anki in the end because it takes similar amount of effort and adds a lot more useful info.

I’m so grateful for these tools :sob: .

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:spiral_calendar: Day 77: September 15th :ocean: :passenger_ship:

spacer:girl: からかい上手の(元)高木さん Volume 7 (10% ➨ 17%)

spacer:eyeglasses: ななか 6⁄17 (1) Volume 1 (43% ➨ 56%)

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I always think this and it then turns out I’m super over optimistic about how much reading I will do on trains and planes or in hotel rooms :slight_smile: I think I took like three or four times as many Japanese books on my recent trip as I actually managed to read, and every day I put a book in my bag thinking “yeah, I’ll read at lunchtime or find a nice bench in a park” and then ended up not touching it all day…

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:tiger2: :books: The Tanuki Falling Leaf Party: Date 20220916 :fallen_leaf: :raccoon:

吾輩は狸である progress: 27.37% :athletic_shoe:

Chapter 4 begins and, thankfully, the nose conversation hasn’t carried on into this chapter.

Wagahai-cat is out sneaking around in other people’s houses again, and he gets all philosophical to try and justify his sneaking, it is very important that he spies on the neighbours.

:chestnut: Japanese found within the acorns :chestnut:

Meowords

足繁く「あししげく」ー Frequently
咎める「とがめる」ー To blame; to reproach; to find fault
語弊がある「ごへいがある」ー To be misleading
密着「みっちゃく」ー Close adhesion; firmly stuck to; being glued to; having close relevance to
胡乱「うろん」ー Fishy; suspicious looking
茫々「ぼうぼう」ー Vast; boundless
餓鬼大将「がきだいしょう」ー Leader of the pack; neighbourhood bully (also: ガキ大将)

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I have had great success reading on planes, and listening to audiobooks, but trains I never do because I’m too interested in the scenary. Once I’m at my destination… No luck. :upside_down_face: I’m going to try to keep things up during an upcoming trip but I have my doubts…

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Haven’t put out an update in a while, but I kept reading. Some days more than others. I finished reading shirokuma cafe today’s special volume 4 last weekend. Yeah, it was good. Good variance of stories, lighthearted ones like the baby penguins playing and more specialised ones such as the science behind decaffeinated coffee. Took my time with it and then I switched my attention towards avan. On monday didn’t get too read much and it was more like refamiliarizing where we at, but also got in some practice from netflix so I felt okay with that. Finished reading the last chapter today and yeah pretty good volume once again. Maybe my favorite one of the bunch, as it was more personal. It still had the battles and techniques and such, but yeah it was nice. Next volume isn’t out till december, the preview does seem promising.

For the weekend I’m still undecided what I’ll read next, maybe continuing one piece. After that I’ll start reading the girl who leapt through time. I have watched the movie it was loosely based on, but other than that I’m basically going in blind. It’s the first book not in a series I’ll read so that’s also something new for me.

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In case anybody is looking for a nice book to read in the Autumn Challenge:

The Intermediate Book Club is currently polling for the next pick! Jump right in and vote for your favorites :blush:

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Home post :bookmark:

Sep 14: Spice & Wolf (24 → 27%)
Sep 15-16: Honzuki 11 (0 → 10%)

TiredGlare didn’t feel like reading anything, so she went for Honzuki 11 because she couldn’t hold back anymore after 2 weeks of no Honzuki.

Basically this :joy:

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September 16th

Today I read Chapter 22 of Happiness. It was a relatively simple read, though one page in particular had a quite a bit of vocab I needed to look up, which was weird since the rest of the chapter didn’t!

(Home Post)

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september 16 :sunflower: home post

Today I read chapter 57 of 極主夫道 and a bit of 耳をすませば. I’m thinking of reading a bit of 時のオカリナ before bed too

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September 16 :blossom: Home Post

Played some more モノマギア・カンタービレ today! Not like a whole lot, but definitely still more solid reading than I’ve generally been doing lately. I’m still in the demo so we’ll see how much longer it goes on :eyes:

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:spiral_calendar: Day 78: September 16th :diving_mask: :octopus:

spacer:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: からかい上手の高木さん Volume 8 (44% ➨ 55%)

Time got away from me today, but I did read something!

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:butterfly: Home :butterfly:

岸辺露伴(きしべろはん)(うご)かない 2

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I finished the story about the moon viewing family. I think I liked it overall.

I started the next story, “A Rainy Monday” although I think a better title in English would be “Monday -('s weather is) Rain” given that the Japanese is 月曜日(げつようび) 天気(てんき)(あめ). It looks like it’s about the evils of phones. I can’t say I’m too surprised that Araki would use this as a horror concept given that he’s the kind of guy who insists on taking a walk everyday and staying healthy. Not that that’s a bad thing, I’m just not surprised.

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:tiger2: :books: The Tanuki Falling Leaf Party: Date 20220917 :fallen_leaf: :raccoon:

吾輩は狸である progress: 27.89% :ear:

Wagahai-cat continues to be very nosy his very important surveillance of the neighbour’s conversations.

His commentary on people really pulls no punches :sweat_smile:

:chestnut: Japanese found within the acorns :chestnut:

Meowords

盛徳「せいとく」ー Splendid virtue
脳裏「のうり」ー One’s mind

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September 17th!

Today I read the next chapter of Teasing Master Takagi-san.
I usually do more reading on Saturdays, but I had a busy day today as I went to a concert :slight_smile:

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:butterfly: Home :butterfly:

岸辺露伴(きしべろはん)(うご)かない 2

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Yep, it was a story about the evils of phones. Rohan is very Rohan. At least he didn’t say oi or some other phrase an obnoxious amount of time? And on the bright side, we saw so many people shoulder check him hard. Just as he deserves.

I started on the next story, DNA. It’s a really fascinating story, I’ve seen the live action version twice and the incorporation of Rohan’s stand in it is really fantastic. It looks like it might be fairly different from the source material though. I’m excited to read it later today.

I might finish this volume today or tomorrow :thinking: It’s just DNA and the Run, which should be a bit easier since I’ve seen their adaptations and am therefore more familiar with their stories. There’s an obnoxious lack of page numbers but I have 50p of DNA and then the thickness of the volume looks pretty similar to other JoJo volumes so maybe 50-60 more pages for the Run?

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