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I would love to go to Japan just to buy manga!!!!!!!!!!!!! Specifically
You are very lucky. Chinese is one of the languages on my bucket list. It's French, Korean, Japanese and Chinese at the moment. In that order.
So good. Found it first at my library and loved it so I bought it.
Omg Skip Beat is such a classic! :DYou could probably find the series super cheap if you went, it's common for bookshops to sell volumes of older series for around 100 yen each.
I watch some kdramas occasionally but I haven't been able to pick up on the language as well as I did with Japanese, Korean uses so many vowels and my brain just can't quite make sense of the words :<
It's my all time favorite manga. It kills me each month to wait for it to be translated.Oooh. That would be cool. I might try to buy volume one on Amazon or something. I own all the currently out books in English but it's such a great manga I'd like to own it in Japanese too.
I love historical k dramas!!!!! I binge watch them and get very sad when I don't have a new one.
I'm not doing bad. The same author of the Japanese book I recommended also has a Korean one
I own that as well.I probably have an advantage in that sense since I don't really know any Asian languages well enough to make it harder. :)
Holy sh*t. I just searched amazon and the first volume is 143$!?
NM. Just found one for like 15$. lol.
Skip Beat is STILL coming out? I had no idea, I thought it ended years ago!Ooh thank you! Maybe a properly structured book will be of more help to me, I haven't really tried to learn Korean properly, I managed to pick up a lot of Japanese just by watching anime so I kinda expected the same to happen here but it didn't.
Claire wrote: "Skip Beat is STILL coming out? I had no idea, I thought it ended years ago!Ooh thank you! Maybe a properly structured book will be of more help to me, I haven't really tried to learn Korean prope..."
Yup. The mangaka hurt her wrist so I think that has slowed her down but the last chapter literally came out like 3 days ago?
It might. I did that when I watched anime a lot. It truly does help but you also need to study as well or else you miss a lot. I have picked up quite a few words from my dramas though. I can sometimes understand a little when there are no subtitles.
Oh and I also just learned Skip beat is now an adult. It come out in 2002 so this year it's 18 years old. 🤯 I've been reading it for over 10 years! Maybe 15.
Note to self remove HP books from SS. Forgot it was too soon to re-read and have them count. 🤦🏻♀️
checking in! I'm not sure what I'm going to read yet, but I have a lot of older books that this challenge will be perfect for.
So does everyone know what they are starting with? I am going to be starting with
and probably a Vi Keeland book left over from my February BR's.It will probably take me awhile with ACOMAF. This will be the third time I try to finish it. Lets hope I can do it this time haha. (I always start it over because I never remember where I left off so it will count).
So I have started
and
, but it is almost 1:30 am here. So I wont be up much longer.
I've started
. Definitely going to finish it later today as it is a quick read. Not sure what I'm gonna read next though.
So I got 25% into
and 5% into
. I have to go to bed now so I am not cranky at work.
These are the 2 books I'm starting with, but I probably won't start til tomorrow because we are celebrating my dad's birthday today.
Finished
. Just started
and am still only 5% into
. Hopefully I can get a little further before I go to bed.
I finished a book for page points. My first book for a category is half done.
I am still only 5% into
and will be starting
sometime today. Once I finish one of those (both are being used for 2020) we will only need a 2019 for our first bingo :)
Courtney wrote: "I am still only 5% into and will be starting sometime today. Once I finish one of those (both are being used for 202..."Awesome!
I have a 2019 book I was going to start soon. My reading order right now is:
I'll also be reading my French HP book and listening to the English audio but those don't count. ^_^
Cool :) I have a 2019 buddy set up for tomorrow as well. So it looks like we will definitely be getting our first bingo sometime this weekend (if not sooner) :)
We also need to find some early 90's books. Those are very blank right now.
I have a couple, but they are not buddies so I havent added them yet because I wanna concentrate on the buddies. I should have my buddies caught up by mid month hopefully.
Courtney wrote: "I have a couple, but they are not buddies so I havent added them yet because I wanna concentrate on the buddies. I should have my buddies caught up by mid month hopefully."Awesome. That works well because then we can concentrate on just filling the missing spots. ^_^
I have
that I need to add because it is a buddy. I just forgot to put it up. It does work for EVERY period though so I am not sure where to put it.
I have it under 93-95 for it on my list.
Courtney wrote: "I have it under 93-95 for it on my list."I think that would be the best spot right now. :)
I just realized I can count manga for this! Woohoo! I'll see if I can find any I want to read for the 90's and also I will be reading some for the early 2000's. :)
I found several from the 90's. Nothing from the 80's sadly. I will try to read some based on how much time I have and availability. The good thing is that I can potentially read the 600 pages in like 2 hours with manga.
I just found a buddy I can join for
. It looks like it is with Claire so it will get us even more points.
Im going to use it for 1991 so we can fill another spot.
Ashleigh do you have a buddy for
? If not I can do it with you.
I just had a scary experience. :(Just saw a very small cat like maybe only 1-2 yeas old almost or maybe even did get hit by a car! I'm still in shock. Seems to be okay. Couldn't find it and it ran off.
Anna 'Bookbuyer' wrote: "I just had a scary experience. :(Just saw a very small cat like maybe only 1-2 yeas old almost or maybe even did get hit by a car! I'm still in shock. Seems to be okay. Couldn't find it and it ra..."
OMG! I hope the kitty is okay.
Me too! I was so scared it was only in shock and was hurt somewhere but I couldn't find it. :(
I will be done with my 2020 book in about 30 minutes which will give us our first bingo.
Goals for today.
review and post for page points.
review and post for 2008.
I would like to say start and finish but I'll be happy if I get any reading done. :/Bonus Goals:
Read 25 pages of my French HP book.
Listen to some of my HP 2 book.
Read some manga. Probably
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Thats a lot of reading Book. Good luck :)I have work in a couple hours, but I am still hoping to catch up on my buddy read for
(I am like 10 chapters behind now I think. I am currently listening to it so Im not sure lol). Plus I have a buddy starting today for
so I would like to start that. It would be nice to finish it as well, but I know thats unlikely.
Thanks. The manga will be the easiest. I can read a whole volume in like 5 min. I'll just have to remember to stop after every 3 volumes and make notes or I will go crazy when I have to review it.
Yeah thats my biggest issue with doing manga for the challenges. I ended up giving up and either doing status updates or not do any. Lol
Who-hoo I am officially further into
then I have ever been. Its kind of sad I found it hard to get further then 21% into this book until now. Haha
Same. But this time I think it will really help. Plus I will be reading them anyway so might as well use em.
Courtney wrote: "Who-hoo I am officially further into then I have ever been. Its kind of sad I found it hard to get further then 21% into this book until now. Haha"Woohoo!
I found that series hard to get into as well. The first book was like a 3 star for me. Sad. It seems really good but then the writing or something throws me off.
Anna 'Bookbuyer' wrote: "Courtney wrote: "Who-hoo I am officially further into then I have ever been. Its kind of sad I found it hard to get further then 21% into this book unt..."It is completely different from the
series. For me is was the love triangle between Tamlin, Rhys, and Feyre. Plus I was total Team Tamlin back then. Now both guys are big babies haha. Rhys is getting a bit better now.
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Oh yeah Kanji is a pain, I'm lucky in that I can speak/read a fair bit of Chinese already so I can make a pretty good guess for a lot of Kanji. I do still find it extremely tricky since the meanings of the same characters can be different between the languages.
Thank you for the recommendation, I will check it out! :D