That cover and the description of the content are so whacky that I kind of want to read it. But I suspect that it’s going to be too childish. And my list of stuff I want to read is long enough already anyway.
I’ve read 3月のライオン today and I might continue to read 隣の席の佐藤さん2 today.
I am bouncing around and reading the four books below. I actually have about 20-25 more books too, but these are the ones that I have gotten into. I try to find things with straightforward writing that I can read fairly quickly.
I’m mainly reading 世にも奇妙な商品カタログ and I’m really enjoying it.
Bought it mainly to get used to reading but ended to be a total awesome discovery for me!
I was trying to read even a bit daily, but I found better (in part thanks to the fancy stats on this website), to try to have 20-30 minute sessions better than just reading a couple pages every day when I’m super busy.
Outside of the visual novel I am reading, I am currently reading マリア様がみてる. I am enjoying it so far, all the characters are pretty likable although the お嬢さま vocabulary can be a bit tough at times. I also finished やがて君になる last month, the first complete series I’ve finished. I mainly read 百合 manga, so if anyone has recs I would love to hear them
I too am reading an “アリス” book (ふしぎの国のアリス). This edition has lots of cute pictures in it. Seeing a new picture show up to reward your hard work is always the best motivation to keep reading.
I usually read two books (‘easy’ and ‘hard’), but ended up with three at the moment:
I read the first volume so moved on to ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ2 as my hard book for the month.
Rather randomly, I picked 迷探偵の条件 as my easier book. It’s not really that easy – so apart from the short length it was a bad ‘easy’ pick I guess easy first chapters can do that to you.
I then started reading くまクマ熊ベアー, which is pretty easy. I’ve been looking for easy reads that aren’t full of furigana and this does the trick.
I went through a couple of JLPT 読解 books recently so I have gotten used to rotating and not reading the same author every day.
I started reading this on a long plane trip and now started it back up. It’s pretty good and fairly easy to read if you have read books in Japanese before (maybe L27-L28).
I am reading 獣人隊長の(仮)婚約事情.
It’s a one shot, but I haven’t really felt like reading it lately, so progress is really slow.
But I’m now at the midpoint and the rest of the story seems obvious at this point, so I may just push through in the next couple of days.
Edit: I reached my posting limit as a new user, so editing this post instead.
I don’t know about the other site, but I do recommend this one. It has a lot of convenient tags to help you find something that might interest you.
It also allows me to read a bit ahead of publication for light novels I like, but I stopped doing that, since it removes most of the fun of reading the published version
If anyone encounters issues like this, please @brandon or send me a private message. As we’re still a nascent community, we want all the posts / activity you want to give!
I’m still reading 5分後に意外な結末 - 赤い悪夢 (1) and I still don’t really like it. On the plus side, the stories are short and not all kanji have furigana, so it is a nice practice. Hopefully I can finish this one until Sunday. I’m about to order new books (not that I don’t already have enough). They should arrive early next week and well… sorta want to continue with 夜カフェ then.
I’m also reading 夜カフェ! How do you like it so far? I’m a few pages in, so I haven’t decided if I’d like to read the rest of the series yet.
The bookclub in my server is voting on the next book that we’ll be reading as a group and it looks like 夜カフェ is currently in the lead. Voting ends tomorrow, but let me know if you’d like to join and read with us! We do vocab lists and other things. I
I actually finished book 1 in April already. Well, I liked the book. It was in an easy read and the story was interesting enough, I think. At least interesting enough for me to order book 2 and 3. Let’s see how it will go from there.
this is so encouraging to hear! i have like a pdf/ebook version of it or something? I feel like this is a bit of an uphill battle because I’ve begun to comfortably read everything except novels. My goal is to be able to comfortably pick one up and read it whenever I want. I’m going to follow you on the site, if you don’t mind!