I'm here with some updates!

 

I've been reading... but most of the books I read this year are surely from flower-picking trips and the library. Damn. Didn't think I would be doing that much audiobook-listening in my life but here we are. I'm in my audiobook era, apparently. It's a very irresistible method when you dread opening a physical (& digital!) books but still want to do some reading. I still won't touch those heavy ones but the ones that's easy to follow and maybe a book I've read before are very much welcome. I usually listen to one while playing a game that doesn't demand my full attention or when doing the dishes. I got peer-pressured (something like this XD) into reading two audiobooks but it's okay, I would just return early if I don't plan to spend time reading them. A couple of audiobooks are just to accompany my slow physical reading journey...

Oh yeah, one of the audiobooks I finished was "Real Ghost Stories of Borneo 1". I never heard about this series before but it looks like the Borneo's version of TSGS so I thought that was cool! One of the stories talked about their experience in KK and described the hotel they went to as a white castle.. Jeez, I wonder which hotel is that? :P
But seriously though, I consider that place to be old (I went there when I was little) so I wouldn't be surprised if some stuff happened there.

I had a brief silly moment few weeks ago where I almost buy a second copy of "The Labyrinth House Murders"... totally saved by my LibraryThing (which is where I mainly catalogue books I own). I think it was partially me misremembering that what I meant to get is the one I got here. Highly recommend the site to anyone who has similar problems (or wants to avoid this) to use LT. I just started using it again back in 2020 when I realised I have a lifetime account (it used to have a limit on number of books you can add, if I'm not mistaken)... but then couple months later in the same year, they became free (no fees, no limits).  

Great news~ I'm kind of out of the watching slump? I guess that's thanks to Tondemo Skill S2! I've re-watched the whole S1 and still enjoyed it (most of the time with food). But I'm so rusty with my I-know-that-seiyuu game XD. It was a pleasant surprise to know that Elrand is voiced by Namikawa Daisuke, it's so fitting! I wish we can meet Gonji soon but I guess that would be in the next season. Even in the WN, if I remember correctly, there's a big time gap between Dora and Gonji. At least Dora is here! I really need to catch up with the WN... I might need to start from the beginning again...

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I've been reading so many web novels recently it's starting to scare me a bit. 

*sigh* 

I'm half-reflecting on it. I don't think I'm going to quit cold turkey but...  I might need to limit the time or chapters or something. It's a bit hard sometimes because it's so addicting. The effect is similar to when I binge-read manga in the past, I would start abandoning books I'm currently reading *haaaaaah* :|  ...which is kind of what is happening now. It's almost like a reading slump but at the same time, I'm still reading actively [on my phone]... Haah, I guess it is just me getting distracted like usual~~~

The only positive side of this is I get to learn more Japanese vocabulary...? Of course, I'm referring to the web novels that I'm currently reading in its original language on Syosetu. Been using the highlight -> Gtranslate feature more lately (such a very useful feature!). I don't usually translate the whole page because oh boy can you imagine how problematic the translation would be??? I only did a few paragraphs and that already got me laughing out loud silly because the translation was so funny XD