📚📚 Read every day challenge - Spring 2023 🌸🌷🌼

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May 14, Sun of Week 7 of Spring Q2 2023

I read about 20 pages into Bocchi The Rock (trial), but maybe it’s a little gloomy for my taste.

• うたわれるもの

Words of the day

• 苦言(くげん)を呈(てい)する = to give a harsh but honest advice
• ちやほや(.) = spoiling; showing attention
• ぴしゃり(.) = slam the door; flat refusal
• 順当(じゅんとう) = proper
• 健啖(けんたん) = gluttony
• 念(ねん)を押(お)す = to emphasize
• ミジンコ = water flea = 微塵子(みじんこ). Dusty kid?
• だいじょばない = not OK. 大丈夫(だいじょうぶ)ではない?
• 少子化(しょうしか) = declining birth rates