Book collector rehab (actually reading what you own accountability thread)

Japanese
#523

Weekly update

Finished

  • Ora ha akaoni - I ended up writing a review on Bookwalker so I wont repeat my impressions here, but I think reading short stories is very interesting! Excited to get my teeth into more of my short story collections.

Progressed

  • Houkagogakari is getting easier and I’ve managed to breeze through 38 percent a lot faster than I thought!
  • ウソ!? ホント!? 謎解き徳川家康 also surprisingly getting easier after the first bit, somehow transitioned into more simple language??

Random

  • I’ve been looking for more interesting non fiction in the kids section, but it feels like EVERYTHING is manga, which is not rly my vibe for non fiction rn. Would love any recommendations for beginners non fiction in Japanese!
#524

I forget, do you or do you not live in Moonland? I can check out my schools library if you dont and can me which interests youre in. Ive poked around before and reading generic history wasnt THAT bad. But I dont know what your specific interests are.

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#525

So knocked another 16 volumes of manga off my to read list.

The last few volumes of Tales of Crestoria, Ruri dragon, Dandelion and Shade, all of Summer Hikaru Died and now I’ve started on Dragon Quest Adventures of Dai only to find out it’s a prequel series not yet finished.

53/175 completed so far this year so making good time.

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#526

holy moly thats amazing!

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#527

What is Moonland :pleading_face:

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#528

I think that means Japan?

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#529

DING DING DING

Im making a very bad joke/reference to how people refer to Japanese as Moonspeak. So for it to be called so, the people must live in Moonland.

Anyway yea, I forget if you live in Japan or not since a few others in the thread do.

Also what non-fiction are you into @cafelatte

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#530

Hi! I have a question for everyone!

So… let’s just say that one of us decides to ignore all of the lovely manga she has they have and instead devote her their time to reading Bookwalker limited time freebies? How far under the book jail would she they be thrown? She They hadn’t bought anything new lately, though.

I’m just asking out of pure curiosity.

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#531

ahhh I’m not sure if I’ve heard that before!
But yee I live on the moon (Japan). You made me realise I could check out the library too… I feel like a goof

Generally I’m not actually into non-fiction which is part of why it’s hard XD but I like history!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
hm
HMMMMMMMMMMMMM
This is a grey area. I think we will have to hold a council vote.

  • life imprisonment
  • suspended sentence
  • a clever legal evasion but morally suspect
  • a-OK

0 voters

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#532

OKAY
Wow. hi. My head is maybe-kinda-sorta above water in the class-preparation river now.

I have, needless to say, gotten zero reading done since last time, but I beg clemency in the name of education :pleading_face:

I’m still not likely to get to anything this week - there’s a bit of a situation with the upcoming class plan for my first year students - but maybe by next week?

It makes me a little nervous to have had to pause my reviews and reading again, because I applied for N2 this summer, but the class prep has to come first.

Did anyone else wind up signing up?

I will say, hard-copy look ups are pretty slow, but I also focus better/get less distracted with a hard copy than with a digital one, so for me at least it kind of balances out.

Unfortunately, I can’t really give much in the way of non-fiction recommendations; I am very much a fiction enjoyer, and only read non-fiction when it’s necessary for some reason.

Congrats! Talk about going at it :muscle:

HMMMMM What an interesting purely hypothetical question you’ve got there…

Because you see, I’m inclined to some forgiveness in the name of the greater pursuit of personal Japanese studies… especially since the フリーレン and メガネくん that I was reading were both borrowed copies and therefore also don’t actually reduce my personal to-read pile

Buuuuuuttttt…we ARE supposed to be in rehab…Yeah I think your fate shall belong to The CouncilTM.

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#533

I will join you in awaiting sentencing, because in the past few weeks I have read only half a volume of my purchased book pile… and over half of the free tadoku readers available online.

At least I haven’t bought any new books these past few weeks either, so I haven’t added to the pile either.

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#534

Today is my first day back at work. Over spring break I did…absolutely no reading or studying at all. In my defense, I was painting our kitchen cabinets. I quickly learned that painting cabinets sucks and I’d like to never do that ever again. The amount of steps before you even get to painting is ridiculous. I was surprised at the amount of physical pain it ended up putting me in too. The last two days of spring break were spent recovering from injuries. :persevere:

Very happy to be back at work today and hope to continue reading manga volumes this week. I have to finish 5 volumes to catch up with my reading goals now. :sweat_smile:

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#535

to be fair, I got a library card from my local library and still have yet to use it lmao. Ill go to my school library from time to time to study and browse through the books, but since Im currently in a “highlighting the grammer” time of my life I dont wanna do that by accident

See, Yall are reading and NOT adding to the pile. Which at the end of the day what we want. So I think yall are fine.

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#536

Does anyone else sometimes wonder if they’re actually reading or if words are just entering their eyeballs without any meaning coming into the brain

The challenge of trying to read without mentally translating lol

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#537

You get there eventually. My reading is a mix right now. If I know all the words in a sentence I can just read it. If the sentence is too complicated or has words I don’t know then it starts getting translated in my head.

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#538

When I’m feeling particularly frustrated, yes, absolutely. I try to remind myself that it’s part of the process - it’s not like we were born knowing what sounds and letters meant in English, either.

Of course, as babies/kids we also didn’t know how much we weren’t getting, lol.

Deep breath and do your 頑張りbest!

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#539

Friday update (wow its Friday???)

Work is busy now so not much progress, brain is deader than usual riP
But I thiiink I can finish one of my lightnovels by next Friday.
Its interesting how much my reading speed changes after I get past the 50 percent mark. The first 25 percent is the longest, making me almost feel like my reading works in the same time medication half lives work… wait thats not how they work at all… well the point is im drawing an analogy between uhhh… yeah so my brain is deader than usual, I said that right?

and this thought will hopefully carry me through the last part of the book

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#540

It’s been a hot minute since I last posted here, oops.

Went on a longer trip at the beginning of this month and then got slammed by work deadlines (the end is in sight!!), so unfortunately not been able to read as much as I would like. But I did finish volume 4 and 5 of 星降る王国のニナ, as well as the weekly Kiki readings.

I may have also bought volumes 8-18 of ニナ because I saw them at a Bookoff while on my trip and they don’t have them at the one near my house so I had to. please no jail

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#541

I take fits and starts and only really know I’m understanding without translating when I read prose without pictures and my brain has its on little video playing out the scenes :sweat_smile: first time that hit me it was weird because it felt like reading in English

When I read manga, it’s more subtle and I usually only notice when I’m not feeling as though I’m sounding out words like a kindergartener :joy:

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#542

I still do this with katakana words every now and then and it annoys me so much. The first Magic Treehouse book I read in japanese I got caught up on the word ツリーハウス. Guess what the word is? GUESS. :rofl:

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