2024 Bingo Reading Challenge ☑️

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I haven’t updated in a while. 6 bings! All at once!

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Books finished June-Oct

  • Frieren 1-2 For the New author (to me) category and non-human protagonist. I’m leading the club at WK for this book and enjoying it a lot!
  • しろくまカフェ 1 for workplace setting with the repeat club at WK. I bought all 4 volumes years ago in one of my first attempts to read in Japanese. It’s fun to now be further in my journey and able to enjoy these in a light-hearted way.
  • 都道府県のおはなし - in the cover with cool colors category. This one has some interesting facts, but since they don’t always feel like the most important things about a prefecture, or explored in depth, it was a bit boring and I was glad to see the back of it (it was my first attempt to join a book club)
  • なぜ?どうして?科学のお話2年生 - in the non-fiction category. Again, this was in my “bought years ago for my first attempts to read Japanese”. For this series, I much preferred the biographies book (link in below finished in February)

Now my reading is packed with continuing series from books I’ve finished here that won’t fulfill any more squares: (Frieren 3, しろくまカフェ 2, 脱出せよ 2, Slam Dunk 2, Zenitendo 5) and the current WK IBC book 妊娠カレンダー that starts tomorrow. Originally I thought I might give up on the last two Bing squares, but today I was thinking about getting a Natively streak of levels. I have a gap from 15-17 that I could fill with free Tadoku readers- and those would be perfect for the last two squares. Even though that would be super easy for me now, they would be harder than the level 14 manga I was happy to finish at the beginning of the year! I think I’ll do that, then my longest Natively streak would be from level 13-20 :slight_smile: just for fun.

Previously posted

I finished 3 books in the last month (May-ish):

  • ジャングルから脱出せよ (Survival Jungle Escape Book) - A choose your own adventure book I found that fits the category “Add Book to Natively”. We’re choosing which one to read next if anyone wants to join the club on WK.
  • とんがり帽子のアトリエ 1 (Witch Hat Atelier 1) Coming in at Natively Level 26 for my “hardest read yet” category.
  • チョコっとちょこちゃん 1 (Little Miss Chocolate) - winner of “bad cover” - I feel like everything from this publisher looks the same. “Cute little blond girl does x” but it was cute and easy to read. I’m going to attempt reading Vol 2 in one day at the end of the year to complete my card.

I finished 2 books in April:

I finished 3 books in February

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