Alright 裏世界ピクニック it is then!
I’ll go through トゲトゲ lyrics on my own, and just ask questions if I run into any hard spots I guess.
Thx everyone who voted & gave input 
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I decided to order some physical books since it was nearing my birthday, and then I bought some more, and then some more after that… I wasn’t expecting to end up with so many. I’ve decided to start working through them by relative difficulty, but I can’t pick which of these three to start with.
I ended up with the tankobon softcover version, which I wasn’t expecting but I am quite happy with as I paid bunkobon price. Needless to say it’s a lot larger than I was expecting, and it came with a bookmark ribbon bound in the spine.
I was surprised to see that I couldn’t find this lurking my usual places for 100% off e-books, and I’ve seen this author’s books around before, so I grabbed it on sale. Not to mention the cover itself is gorgeous.
same as above, and honestly I’m surprised I even found this online for sale. It’s got a silly premise and seems like one of the tsubasa series that’s aimed at older kids.
- また、同じ夢を見ていた。
- つながりの蔵
- オンライン！
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wow, I’m kinda shocked by the results (I expected また、同じ夢を見ていた to come out on top)! オンライン! クリア不可能!? 悪魔のゲーム! | L22?? it is then.
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If you want to feel fancy, the ABC Japanese-English dictionary / 漢和英大辭典 : エービーシー式 is the most beautiful dictionary I’ve seen.
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That’s a beautiful old school kind of book…
Personally I own:
- Kodansha’s Furigana Japanese Dictionary
- Kodansha’s Essential Kanji Dictionary
- 全訳用例 漢和辞典 ビジュアル版
but it’s been decades since I actually used any of them in anger. In fact I can’t remember now why I have the 漢和辞典 at all…
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Useful for finding corresponding pronunciations in 薬屋のひとりごと and other 高級/pseudo-China setting books? (I’m grasping at straws lol)
That does indeed look fancy, but I had JP-JP in mind. Something like the one @CatDQ mentions here looks appealing - but also I wonder how useful it will be for L30s material
Also found this thread in the meantime:
So I guess I’ll have to ponder it for a while
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I have a feeling I either picked it up cheap in book off on a whim, or else a friend gave me it second hand at some point. I’m pretty sure I haven’t ever seriously used it to look anything up…
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I forced myself to go monolingual too early bc all the language bros told me to. I’ve reverted, but back when I was I got all the epwing files that I could find and definitely had an opinion about which dictionaries were the easy ones to understand. I don’t remember what they were, but that would maybe be my recommendation if you’re unsure of which mono dictionary you want.
I also have a kids dictionary I bought at bookoff that I personally don’t find very useful and I’d be happy to mail it to you if you’d want it. The definitions either use a lot of words I don’t know or aren’t all that descriptive because they’re stuck with child vocabulary. Which is not a glowing review on purpose.
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I’d be happy to take it! If nothing else, it would give me a sense of what I do/don’t like in a dictionary. Will PM with my address
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I have a few dictionaries because I went to uni long before tablets and smartphones. The small one on the bottom is the only one I actually used regularly. 
The children dic is a decent tool for getting used to monolingual. If you can’t understand those explanations, you are not ready for monolingual, imo.
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Need to start a new manga that I already have digitally.
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Quick poll to decide what audiobook to jump tomorrow, as I finished 本好きの下剋上~司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません~第一部「兵士の娘3」 | L32 which I had on hold for a long time.
Finish 転生したらスライムだった件 1 | L34
Start 本好きの下剋上~司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません~
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オレが私になるまで gets my insta vote. Such a well done story. Can be a bit heavy at times, but not overly so. I should check up on recent chapters…
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Hello! First time posting on the forum (what a lovely space btw).
I wanna read my first N1 book but I’m anxious about it because I’m already reading native content idk wth to expect beyond that
(Sorry idk how to make a clean poll)
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As a first ever book of that difficulty level, I would go with わたし、定時で帰ります。 | L34 out of that list.
この本を盗む者は | L35 starts really hard and the large number of various topics means that there’s a lot more variety in words in there, which can be frustrating in terms of look ups.
薬屋のひとりごと 1 | L38 is my favorite book out of the list, but it’s also very hard, using dated or Chinese inspired fantasy (despite no fantasy) words (plus the writing style of the author).
I know nothing of 紙の月 | L37
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I agree but I still voted for it because I enjoyed the hell out of it. I’m the sort of personality that will happily face down a wall of unknown vocab if the payoff feels worth it. If that is true for you @Sheima I think it will be a good book, but if you find lots of unknown words a bummer instead I’d push it off a bit.
I also voted for 紙の月 | L37 because I know nothing about it nor the author and I love a wild card 
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I have read the author before and can vouch for her! The other book I read from her was also not super difficult so that one should be ok too?
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My impression from the WK book club is that it divided opinions – some people loved it but some really didn’t like it at all. (I’m in the latter group, and gave it 2 stars out of 5: what the author wanted to write about given the setup and what I wanted to read about it were really badly misaligned, so it felt like I had to plough through a lot of self indulgent scenes for a few nuggets of what I cared about.)
On the plus side, it did have a WK club, so if something’s confusing there might be some helpful posts back in the old threads about it.
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Oh I’m exactly like you! Idc about the amount of unknown words as long as they exist in a dictionary lol. That’s what’s putting me off 薬屋のひとりごとeven tho it’s looks like something i would really really enjoy.
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