I decided that a questionable ‘learn about databases’ book would be my bad cover. I read this in 2 days because it’s quite short and also very easy, but take my comment with a grain of salt because I already have technical vocab and I did notice a decent amount of advanced grammar that I’m just very used to by this point
I actually can’t add this to Natively because it’s not on Amazon(!), but it’s currently free on Bookwalker incase you too want to learn about Oracle databases by self-inserting as a Cool Third Year Programmer who learns about database recovery by being scolded by a Hot Coworker
The book itself is G rated, there is nothing saucy in it.
I rolled a random number to select from my TBR pile for that square, and got 7, which was ハロー・グッドバイ 東京バンドワゴン | L29 . There were definitely a few books I would have been tempted to take a reroll to avoid, but luckily I didn’t have to…
It’s not technically a higher level; the highest level I’ve read is the first book in that series, haha. I’m extremely unlikely to read a higher one this year, though, and it’s been about two years since reading the first book, so it’s close enough.
Me deciding to only count the backlog books I finish as part of the bingo was a real choice on past eefara’s part. Let’s see if I can get one bingo this year, haha.
Once I finish 京都寺町三条のホームズ | L29, I will now get 2 bingos at once. I could try to rush 源氏物語 (which easily wins the “published earliest” contest, making it the bottom left spot) to get 3 at once… but I don’t wanna
Sounds highly situational, so I couldn’t say. Do keep in mind though that any rules are pretty flexible; if it makes sense to you, count it! The goal is to read more, after all.
Count which as the debut work? The anthology one? I would. If they have a separate, full-length debut novel, there’s also reasonable grounds to count that. Like I said, flexibility.
I used my free space to replace “Non-fiction” with “Reread a book”. Rereading seems valuable, but I never do it. Not even in my native language.
Reading a light novel and getting into fan fiction are two other goals I want to meet through this. The light novel will almost certainly take the high level book space and the fic will take the read for free slot.
Woops, I totally forgot about this for like… 6 months. Maybe it’s an excuse to make a better formatted bingo card and fill in what I’ve done this year so far.
I don’t have anything in my TBR that would fit either of those, so this is probably the final state of the board unless I run down the TBR pile enough to justify another cdjaoan order this year…
And with that, we are almost done with the easy ones. I guess published in 2007 is gonna be okay (I am reading one right now).
I have one book that I think is historical fiction.
Written before 1940 and TBR simplest cover should be easy enough.
On the slightly more annoying, I have 赤毛のアン on hand for “nostalgic”… but I don’t really feel like reading it at this time.
Oldest bought is also right there… where it has been for like 8 years (soon 9). I think there’s a reason that it’s been left unread for so long
On the grunt inducing side TBR hardest, longest in TBR, TBR longest book, and TBR published earliest are all way over 500 pages and I (still) don’t wanna.
I have “only” 200 pages left on ドグラ・マグラ | L50?? but I just went through a section in Classical Japanese and boy was that draining. Even the normal sections are all ~べし and ~候 now. I’ve been reading that book on and off since March, though. I will finish it.
who learns about database recovery by being scolded by a Hot Coworker 
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Let’s see if I can get one bingo this year, haha.
