I made my bingo card late at night and I think I was jet lagged at the time, so it’s a bit rough and ready.
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I think I’m going to do this with the modifier that I only count books from my backlog! (Which I will consider to be anything I bought or obtained before 2024.) It should be technically possible, I think …
Here’s a list of the squares (read left to right, top to bottom), so that I can make plans and later keep track!
Chosen Randomly
Won’t know til I do it!
✅New to Me Author
夜の名前を呼んで by 三星たま
★ Been in my TBR the Longest ★
王宮ロマンス革命―姫君は自由に恋する
I’m pretty excited about this one, because it was the first book in Japanese I ever bought! I found it used online, basically just sold as “unknown Japanese light novel” and went in blind based just on the cover and the fact that it was written in Japanese. (I naively thought at the time that I might be able to learn to read Japanese the same way I learned to read German - just read a paragraph a day until you can read fluently! I don’t think I ever made it through the first sentence of this book?)
So anyway, it would be pretty cool if I could read it by the end of next year!
If I’m not up to the challenge maybe I will count finishing 霧のむこうのふしぎな町 or 魔女犬ボンボン ナコと運命のこいぬ | L23, my two oldest DNFs.
Or this book: 5分後に意外な結末 ex エメラルドに輝く風景 | L24??, which is one of the very first books I ordered from Amazon jp.
Non-Human Protagonist
ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 1 | L22
Or ポエトリー・ドッグス | L25??
Or 絶叫学級 禁断の遊び 編 | L25
Read with a Book Club
Maybe ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂 1 | L23?
Non-Fiction
都道府県のおはなし 低学年 おはなしドリル | L19
Or 角川まんが学習シリーズ 日本の歴史 1 日本のはじまり 旧石器~縄文・弥生~古墳時代 | L26
✅Workplace Setting
I was NOT expecting to fulfill this one with a book about 16 year olds, but here we are …
舞妓さんちのまかないさん 1 | L25
Something I Got For Free
If I don’t want to read on my computer, cheat and re-read 花野井くんと恋の病 | L21 (it’s cheating because I bought the physical copy, but I originally read an e-version that I got for free!)
Otherwise, anything from my Bookwalker library …
A Debut Work
More Difficult Than Other Things I've Read
Lots of options as it only has to be level 26 or higher, apparently …
✅An Award Winner
気になってる人が男じゃなかった, which won
次にくるマンガ大賞2023 Webマンガ部門第1位受賞. Not sure if this is a particularly prestigious award, but I’m counting it!
Added By Me to Natively
✅Read in a Single Day
の 福音館の単行本 | L15
The only one I felt confident I could do it with!
Something with No Reviews
✅Finish a Series
Finally finished ブナの森のアリア!
★ Something I Want to Read Despite the Cover ★
神様 | L33
Nine additional categories for a 25 square board! Just for fun/“stretch goals”.
Something that was recommended to you
九井諒子作品集 竜のかわいい七つの子 | L29
Recommended to me by an employee at the bookstore where I went looking for some classic manga! They didn’t have any of the specific volumes I wanted, so this book was his recommendation based on the series that I asked about.
Shiritori Square!
Read a book whose title starts with the last kana of the previous book I read!
A book involving a 神社
The lowest-level book on your TBR
Something nostalgic
Probably カードキャプターさくら 1 | L22
An adaptation
Maybe この本を盗む者は 1 | L25?? or 春夏秋冬代行者 春の舞 1 | L23 or 竹取物語/虫めづる姫君 10歳までに読みたい日本名作 | L23
Something that hasn't been translated into English
✅At least one character speaks a dialect
https://learnnatively.com/book/3be62e9af6/
For my 25 square board I think I will use this one for “at least one character speaks a dialect”, and read something else for “workplace setting”!
Second volume of a series
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