Well, thanks to your list, I discovered (and then read) BIBLIOMANIA | L26
I’m not going to add it to my card because I do a “no manga” challenge, but it was a fun (and somewhat disturbing) read.
I just made a list for the Korean books so far. Do tell me if I forgot anyone’s card. I didn’t bother to add the Japanese books that had a translation available in Korean, but if someone wants to do that I can add collaborators.
Apologies if anyone posted about it already, but Bookwalker is currently running a campaign on books with Cats if anyone needs a cat book for their Japanese bingo still! Apparently February 22nd is 猫の日🐈
This is very cool!
I was thinking to use a random generator and pick a random comment in the thread, and then pick a new random number to pick one book from the list of books that are in the comment, but then what if the comment is not a comment that has a list of books read
Might have a look at your list instead!
Thank you Bookwalker for supporting Natively Bingo 2025 now please make a campaign for Main character is retirement age or older (saw someone here using Frieren for that one, pretty smart!)
Thanks to that, booklive is doing the same thing. I haven’t cross referenced to see if they are the same books. Edit: I have now checked and there’s like no overlap
Natively w/o ratings - おまわりさんと招き猫 あやかしの町のふしぎな日常 - 6.8 look-ups/page, 1.9 % zero-look-up pages, currently L28. Look-ups would have been less if the author didn’t like to use out-of-list or jinmeiyou kanji that much, or at least provide more furigana. But otoh this is the way to get used to them, as a kanji with furigana, I‘d probably just ignore with a mind set like: no need to worry about it now, next time it‘ll have furigana again.
Speaking about cats: I plan to read volume #2 for the cat square sometime in the second half of the year.
Started one new bingo square:
Keep hearing about it - 四つ子ぐらし 1 ひみつの姉妹生活、スタート! - as an easier book between more complicated ones to catch my breath. As it seems, alternating easier and more complicated books, is a good way for me to keep reading long term.
I just finished 理由, which I’ll write my thoughts on in the club thread tomorrow (it’s bedtime soon) but it fit the one word title prompt so I put it in there
To be honest most of the prompts this year don’t seem to align with what I’m reading/want to read next so I might not even get a bingo
Ah, the title didn’t ring a bell but thanks to the other’s comments, I have indeed watched the movie already during the festival. It didn’t do so much for me though.
I am considering reading おらおらでひとりいぐも, Akutagawa Winner, 2017, but apparently there is Tohoku-dialect in it, not sure if I am ready for that
I was considering that one and hesitating for the same reason too! If you do go with that one we could make an informal bookclub to decipher the dialect together