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Reading Goals for the Year and January Review

As someone who loves books and hates clutter, I find myself in a bit of a pickle. I have a lot of unread books that are taking up space, and I seldom reread books (especially fiction). That is why I made “read everything” one of my 2020 goals. So far, it’s both going well and failing spectacularly. Let me explain.

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My 2019 In Books

Time to dust off the cobwebs. One of my 2020 goals is to keep my blog more active. What better way to do that than by talking about some of the stuff I read last year?

Keep in mind that this is not a list of everything I read, just the stuff I remembered to log on Bookmeter (Another resolution of mine is to be better about keeping track of what I read).

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和製英語の罠 その1:コインパーキング

 Have you ever heard of “coin parking”?

I hadn’t, until I started learning Japanese.  I don’t remember ever using the phrase “coin parking”. Metered parking? Parking meter? Sure. I haven’t seen one in a while, but sure, I’ve said it. Coin parking?! コインパーキング!?Not so much.

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