#hobonichi

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Inhae @blue@social.inhae.blog · 13:08

개구리 정원의 살인 gave me a lot of mentions for my bingo reading challenge, but no new entry. Mention of the perfect crime, mention of AI, poisoning… I already had all these for Korean.

One prompt I thought would be hard to fill is De mortuis nil nisi bonum for when characters questioned by the police about the victim start by saying “I know you don’t speak ill of the dead, but…” and then do it anyway. I already found three examples of that!

I’m having a lot of fun with this reading challenge :ablobcatenjoy: I’m probably missing prompts when I’m too focused on the story and forget that I have this challenge going on lol, but it’s fine.

As 2026 is the year of the Fire Horse, “horse” and “fire” are my first prompts. I found several mentions of fire, but no horse so far.

Opened grid notebook with the focus on the bottom of the left page. The top of the page is blurred, but the title “perfect murder” is visible. The page is divided into three sections, each containing text. The bottom one has two sentences in Korean, both containing the word “완전범죄” that is written in blue.
Opened grid notebook with the focus on the bottom of the right page. The top of the page is blurred, but the title “poisoning” is visible. The page is divided into three sections, each containing text. The bottom one has three sentences in Korean, all containing a word related to poisoning that is written in blue.
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Inhae @blue@social.inhae.blog · 18:09

I have a reading bingo for 2026 where I need to find a prompt in each of my target languages. (Linking to the original challenge that I got inspiration from, but I ended up changing a lot of prompts). I just write down the title of the book, and the sentence where it appeared with a colour per language.

One is for “mention of a famous fictional detective”, and the Korean short story I read yesterday mentioned Sherlock Holmes (it’s always Sherlock Holmes…). So I’m close to a bingo here!
The only other one that has two entries already is “serial killer”.

I made this bingo way too easy by choosing tropes of crime fiction, when I mostly only read crime fiction :silly:

But there’s enough space for three entries per language, so I decided that I’ll get a super bingo if I can fill three entries per language for a prompt ✨

app.thestorygraph.com/reading_

A long and thin grid notebook opened: The pages have three lines making three sections. The title on the left page is “fictional detective”. The second and third sections have notes in Japanese and Korean respectively with a word highlighted.
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Inhae @blue@social.inhae.blog · 10:55

First line completed! :frog_celebrate:

At first I just wanted to find a use for this page of the Hobonichi Weeks so I decided to use it for my Anki streak, but it turns out that checking the days myself instead of relying on the Anki built-in calendar helps me a lot with maintaining my streak.

And with this I can tell apart the days when I learnt new cards (light green) and the days when I only reviewed older cards without new ones (yellow). I really want to try to avoid these yellow days as much as possible this year. I think I did okay in reviewing my cards last year, but I haven’t learned a lot of new words, which is a shame…

Dark green is for days when I did my reviews AND added new cards to Anki.

Upper part of a thin planner displaying a page filled with circled numbers, starting with 1 and going up. The numbers of the first row are coloured in various shades of green. A coloured pencil is resting near the planner.