Added a first person narrative tag.
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Thanks! I had no idea tags for narrator POV existed, but TBH I hate first-person so it’s a good thing to have flagged 
Based on the pace I finished that one at, I’ll have the second book finished in the next month or so, and then I can go through and decide which tags apply to the whole series and which ones will go on the books individually.
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slowly getting squares got a couple in April but hadn’t updated the card and today finished vol 5 of fudanshi kazoku so figured about time for an update (though still no bingo)
there are a few more books in progress that will help knock out some of these squares - my progress always feels slow but it’s at least forward
#2 - features yakuza char 拾われ子猫と元ヤクザ 1巻 | L23
found it cute but surprised sometimes some of it was more difficult (yakuza speak) than I would have expected (have vol 2-4 and will eventually read them)
#4 - something with a dragon 骨ドラゴンのマナ娘 1 | L25
this one would be a good pic for the BBC at some point though also found it sometimes more difficult than I expected (but I don’t read a lot of fantasy stuff) will finish off the rest of the series eventually
#24 - read the next book in a series already started 腐男子家族 5 | L24
been working on this series for some time now…personally I really like this mangaka and the humor only 2 left in the series to finish it up!
past books ---- whoops guess I never bothered with a template for this so uhhhh see previous posts 
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Filled new slot for “Has Cats” with 私の可愛い子猫ちゃん | L24
Cats! 
This manga has a cute kitty called Chibi whose presence indirectly triggers the relationship between two roommates. Sadly the series is not finished yet (only two volumes so far), and it seems the mangaka (Morinaga Miruku, of GIRL FRIENDS | L23 fame) is working on this series at her own pace so progress has been slow.
In a lot of aspects, the relationship is a lot more mature than in many other Yuri manga I’ve read so far - mostly in the fact that instead of a romance it feels more like the development of a marriage, and the different ways the two main characters need to balance work and married life.
Here’s my collection of cute Chibi pictures with no spoilers!
#MyFoodTrayIsEmpty!
#OmNomNom
#NadeNade
#CatBestCureForTummyAche
#OnakaIppai!
#YattaGohan
#Scratching
#KyattoTawa~
#Yawn
#Gomen
#EmotionalSupportCat
#ThanksForTheFoodButCanYouOpenTheCanPlease
#SameExpressionDifferentMentalState
At the end of volume one, there’s a Kakioroshi (extra chapter that wasn’t in the magazine where the manga is published) where the point of view changes to Chibi’s
Did I mention this manga is very cute ? (though also borderline R-18 in some parts, in case that’s an issue for anyone interested… )
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Sold. 
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Bingo update:
妖魔と下僕の契約条件 1 | L29 for “Shortest on TBR”. It’s not actually the shortest, but it’s way down there and if I don’t use it for this square I don’t have another candidate square for it. 推し、燃ゆ | L36 might technically be the shortest for me. 
But my bingo, my rules!! 
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Bingo update: I finally got a bingo!
Cats: 악의 (a cat is in the book. It is not a wholesome feature) was a pretty fun and twisty mystery novel with an ironic structure.
Favorite color cover: 금단의 마술 (my favorite color is purple, and I couldn’t really find any purple books whose covers I actually found pretty, so I’m going with this reflective silver cover of a book I own irl). This one was mid honestly. One of the most mid Higashino books I’ve read. I can see why it wasn’t translated into English. The ending was so unsatisfying.
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With how many books Higashino has written, theres bound to be some duds in there. Sigh. But please continue on your Higashino body of work journey so I know which ones to go for
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finished one bingo square:
- Unusual genre to me - とらドラ! (1) - usually I do not read romcoms, I just watch them, but here I luckily made an exception, after I watched the series several years ago. I gave the book 4+1 stars, +1 because of chapter five.
7.9 look-ups per page, no zero-look-up page, currently L32. Based on these numbers for me the book is under-graded, but this is of course an average value: the first half is difficult, the second easier.
and I started one new bingo square:
- Features cats - マリカと魔法の猫ボンボン: あたし、ネコになっちゃいました! - after an orange level book now again a purple one. The book is aimed at high elementary / middle school children; therefore it is a “half“ furigana book i.e. it has no furigana on easy kanji.
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I know I’m basically spamming this thread, but I had to give what I feel is a pretty big update.
I finished 대도시의 사랑법, which is actually the first book I ever started in Korean, 3.5 years ago. It was way too hard for me back then and I dropped it after 30 pages or so when it became due at the library. It wasn’t really a fun read even now, because it’s not my style, but it is ~literature~ and I had to finish it just for the symbolic value. And now it’s done! On to the next~
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Nah, you’re just living the dream of being able to read so many books to update with!
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not only that but…everytime i see it …
it’s not a smaller 4x4 or std 5x5…but a 6x6 card!!! 
like bonus points even 
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Hahaha honestly I did it that way because my goal is to hit 100 Korean books (not webtoons or manga, but webnovels do count) this year. I’m at 88. At the start of this year, I realized that 36 books would put me just (edit) BELOW 100 total books read in Korean, so I decided to be a little ambitious! My reading pace in Korean is so much faster now hahaha
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I’ve been trying to wait to post until I had two new squares, but I just gotta put this out there. I got a shiritori square!
#7 Shiritori title (Hitoribochinomarumaruseikatsu → Tsuredzurebiyori) / Went in without knowing the premise: 徒然日和 1 | L20
I had been strategizing a shiritori bingo square (where the title of the book is a correct shiritori answer to the title of the last book I read) for a while, and in the meantime read this manga. Then I went to log it on bookmeter and suddenly realized I already pulled it off (Accidentally)!
In other news, I figured out that I’ll get my first bingo when I fill square 14, which doesn’t actually seem tooo far away.
previous squares
Free square: とんがり帽子のアトリエ 5 | L27
#1 Read a book and watch the adaptation/Join a book club: ひとりぼっちの○○生活 1 | L21
#2 Cover is primarily composed of your favorite color / From someone else’s board: とんがり帽子のアトリエ 6 | L27
#3 Workplace setting / Character speaks a dialect: 舞妓さんちのまかないさん 12 | L25
#4 Reread: 気になってる人が男じゃなかった | L25
#5 Non-human protagonist: しろくまカフェbis 2 | L19
#6 Second in a series: 気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.2 | L24
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that is so fun! Now I’m going to look at my book list and see if I have any…
… and discovered after a quick search that you lose in shiritori with a word that ends in ん (which makes sense I guess, but I was kinda expecting in that case you could start with the last 2 syllables)
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4th update !
Moved some things around…and it ended up with me having a bingo! (I swear that’s not why I moved things lol I needed 나는 나를 파괴할 권리가 있다 to be my new level at 33 instead of the year thing so I didn’t die trying to read a harder book;; )
- Published my birth year - 악의
I liked it! A kind of murder mystery that kept me guessing. The vocab was a little out there to me because of the setting (idk 90’s?) and also prob because it’s a Japanese translation.
- Set where I’ve lived - 가짜 모범생
Might change this one if I find a better fit, but it’s a Korean book set…somewhere in Korea lol.
To summarize, a kid deals with his twin brother’s suicide while under pressure from his mom to take over his brother’s #1 school ranking spot. This book was a good look into Korean educational pressures (esp by moms). I didn’t read it for so long because I thought it was going to be a really typical school story (I never really read summaries so lolol) and I’m glad I ended up picking it up. Really felt like 대치 or just 강남 엄마 vibes to me. If you’ve seen Sky Castle, that’s basically where I worked. Crazy to think these kinds of parents exist but they really do sadly…I remember parents would try to buy their way into higher rankings when my 학원 (private academy) didn’t even give actual grades (feedback only) or rank students. I worked at a terrible place, but I will say that not giving grades/rankings was the one good thing…though the parents hated it lmao. How can I say my kid is better than another if there’s no number to prove it?! Anyways, I rec if you like those kinds of stories. I might even read the sequel.
past picks
- No ratings on Natively - 나는 실수로 투명인간을 죽였다
- Science fiction - 회색 인간
- Title includes number - 남편을 죽기는 서른 가지 방법
- Features cats - 뉴서울파크 젤리장수 대학살
- Curious title - 칵테일, 러브, 좀비
- not set in Korea - 비정근
- keep hearing about it - 죽이고 싶은 아이
- new topic to me - 뒤틀린 집
- non-human protagonist - 긴긴밤
- character with a disability - 소리를 삼킨 소년
- new natively level to me (33) - 나는 나를 파괴할 권리가 있다
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