# 2025 Bingo Reading Challenge ✅ **URL:** \ **Category:** All Languages\ **Created:** [October 22, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://forums.learnnatively.com/t/2025-bingo-reading-challenge/12116 "2024-10-22T03:42:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 328
**Author:** ![Akashelia](https://deyr2qldo994j.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.learnnatively.com/akashelia/32/2799_2.png) [@Akashelia](https://forums.learnnatively.com/u/Akashelia)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.learnnatively.com/t/2025-bingo-reading-challenge/12116/328 "2025-03-09T14:14:22Z")
First bingo for me! ![72025_BINGO_JP-1 copy_10](https://do4ryrayvtpwi.cloudfront.net/original/2X/5/5511e78cc7cd4d7fa990fbd5250a6465d0f6bee9.jpeg) Thanks to [走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること](https://learnnatively.com/book/5855b27269/)… which I didn’t really enjoy, happy to move on! > **Completed list so far** > > **1 - Cover is primarily composed of your favorite color** : > → BLUE!! [とんがり帽子のアトリエ 6](https://learnnatively.com/book/2792b72a29/) with the [IMC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%81%A8%E3%82%93%E3%81%8C%E3%82%8A%E5%B8%BD%E5%AD%90%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8-volume-6/68523) (Jan 4th) > > **2 - 2nd volume of a series** : > → [ダンジョン飯 2巻](https://learnnatively.com/book/045a930572/) with the [IMC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E9%A3%AF-volume-2/68401) (Jan 4th) > > **3 - Book you keep hearing about but haven’t read yet** : > → [容疑者Xの献身](https://learnnatively.com/book/5cc882d1e4/), previous [ABC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E5%AE%B9%E7%96%91%E8%80%85x%E3%81%AE%E7%8C%AE%E8%BA%AB-the-devotion-of-suspect-x-%F0%9F%8C%B9-advanced-book-club/47665) (Jan 5th) > > **4 - Read the next book in a series you have started** : > → [スーパーの裏でヤニ吸うふたり 4](https://learnnatively.com/book/d79d46033f/), Read volume 1 with the [BBC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%81%AE%E8%A3%8F%E3%81%A7%E3%83%A4%E3%83%8B%E5%90%B8%E3%81%86%E3%81%B5%E3%81%9F%E3%82%8A%E3%83%BBbehind-the-supermarket-smoking-with-you-beginner-book-club-reading-volume-3/62044) in March 2023 (almost two years ago!), it was hard. Feels easier now! (though still doesn’t feel easy! manga is hard) (Jan 7th) > > **5 - Has cats** 🙂 > → [おじさまと猫 1](https://learnnatively.com/book/599111c352/), has a [Book Club on WK](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%81%8A%E3%81%98%E3%81%95%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A8%E7%8C%AB-ojisama-to-neko-book-club/45470) (Jan 8th) > > **6 - Read a book that doesn’t have any ratings/gradings/reviews on Natively** : > → [南くんの恋人](https://learnnatively.com/book/1d5bd8283b/) got it as a gift, I am apparently the first one to read it (Jan 8th) > > **7 - Read a book someone else thought you would like** > → [セロ弾きのゴーシュ](https://learnnatively.com/book/dbf2e93d66/), children book, got it as a gift. I found it WAY harder than its grading, some sentences were very long and full of kana and very hard to parse. (Jan 11th) > > **8 - Read something you can read for free** > → 桜の樹の下には Short story, read it for free on Aozora, found it here: > [🎄 2024 Aozora Short Story and Essay Advent ☃](http://forums.learnnatively.com/t/2024-aozora-short-story-and-essay-advent/13035) (Jan 11th) > > **9 - Read a book at a Natively level you haven’t covered yet** : > → Candidates were: below level 14, level 18, level 22, level 24, level 28, level 32, level 34, above level 35. Looked at my backlog and settled for [怪人二十面相](https://learnnatively.com/book/b1b8d443a8/) level 28. How can you not want to read it after reading [this post from javerend](https://community.wanikani.com/t/javerends-study-and-cooking-log/62010/475?u=akashelia)? And it did not disappoint, I really enjoyed reading it 🙂 (Jan 19th) > > **10 - Read something with a one-word title** > → [orange](https://learnnatively.com/book/62244b495a/), previous [BC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/orange-book-club-finished/57388) on WK. Not gonna lie, was pretty happy with myself when I decided to read this one for the one-word title haha. Had this book in my backlog for a long time, as it was being read here on WK forums at the time where I was actively studying Japanese and kept seeing the threads popping up. Thought I would just read the first volume but I enjoyed it, plus now I’m hooked and need to know what happens next! So I am planning on finishing the series before starting on the next Bingo case (it’s only 7 volumes) (Jan 22nd) > > **11 - Read something that has won an award** > → [世界から猫が消えたなら](https://learnnatively.com/book/1030c11685/), [has a thread on WK](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E7%8C%AB%E3%81%8C%E6%B6%88%E3%81%88%E3%81%9F%E3%81%AA%E3%82%89-if-cats-disappeared-from-the-world-book-discussion/36448), keep seeing this one popping up and was wondering what it was about. > What a book. I didn’t know anything about it when I started it, expect that it’s quite popular (or at least that it’s been read a lot, I can see now that not all the comments are positive). “wow this book is pretty funny”, “wow this book is pretty sad”, I don’t know which one fits best but this book gives a lot of food for thought. Especially touching if you are mourning / thinking about your own mortality. (Feb 10th) > > **12 - The title includes a number** > → [3月のライオン](https://learnnatively.com/book/3d1a352b46/): Read the first volume. Not sure how much I like it yet, I think I will read at least two more volumes to see if I want to read the whole series. I found it pretty hard language wise! (Feb 14th) > > **13 - Finish a series** > → [ラブひな](https://learnnatively.com/series/ad33cf94e4/): The square says “Finish a series” but I made it to “Start _and_ finish a series” 😛 > I’ve read all 14 volumes in January and February! > I wanted to finish a series that I hadn’t started yet and that was completed, and this one was already in my backlog due to being one of the few manga I read in my youth. I didn’t want to binge it and read that only (would have probably gotten sick of it very fast), so I just read one chapter between whatever else I was reading. Technically I even started+finished Orange first as it was while reading Love Hina, but still wanted to keep this one for my bingo square. > While ecchi humour is not usually my favourite, this manga is a bit special to me because it’s one of the few that I had read in my youth, basically while I’m reading I completely forget that I’m not 14 anymore haha (懐かしいですね). So I had a lot of fun revisiting it (well, up to a point. didn’t enjoy that much the last 5 volumes or so). The ecchi-part is not as often as I remembered thankfully, there were sweet and funny moments too. And funny how it made me realize that I know a lot more now about the culture in Japan now, so many things must have flown right over my head at the time, to just name a few: the legend of 浦島 太郎, or about ホワイトデー, what’s a 浪人, 七夕, etc etc. Maybe I also enjoyed reading it now because it’s a level of difficulty where I’m really comfortable now, so it felt a lot like actually reading and not deciphering for a change! But finally it’s done now, and happy to be moving on! (Feb 15th) > > **14 - Read something with a title that sounds curious to you** > → [走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること](https://learnnatively.com/book/5855b27269/): I enjoy running myself a lot so was very curious to know Murakami’s take on it. > …Don’t really know what to say now that I’ve finished the book. Don’t want to say something bad about Murakami (how would I dare), but I guess I did find the book pretty boring. It’s basically a guy who enjoys running as a hobby who talks about how he got into it and tells about his (albeit impressive) performances. I mean, if it wasn’t for Murakami, I’m not sure I would have liked to read more than 200 pages about that. But it was Murakami, so I guess it’s nice to get some insights into his life and his personality, and of course any Japanese practice is nice. But for my next pick I might try to find something where I feel more engaged in the story, maybe non-fiction is just not my type 😅 (Mar 9th) > > > **To do, not sorted 11/25:** > > > > - _Something from someone else’s bingo card_ > > - _Read a book about a topic you previously didn’t know about_ > > - _Past book club choice_ > > - _Main character is retirement age or older_ > > - _Read a book with a non-human protagonist_ > > - _Ask what you read next in the Seeking Recommendations Thread_ > > - _Released the year you were born_ > > - _A genre you don’t usually read_ > > - _Read the book that has been in your 積読/TBR pile the longest_: that would have to be NANA! Since it didn’t get picked by the IMC, I will start an unofficial book club for it beginning of March. > > - _Read a debut (an author’s first book, whether they’ve written more or not)_ > > - _Read the latest book you bought_ --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.learnnatively.com/t/2025-bingo-reading-challenge/12116)._