I’ve been a language learner for years (Chinese, Japanese and Korean), and I learn languages for the unique purpose of reading books and playing video games. 

I’m a big fan of crime fiction and I spend most of my time reading detective novels in these three languages.

I’m also a Genshin Impact player and I’m learning Chinese thanks to the game (and Anki!), and I’m now able to read books in Chinese. (Illustrations on this page are drawn by me and inspired by Genshin.)

Finally I’m a stationery nerd, and I love journaling and drawing, as well as keeping reading journals and gaming notebooks. 

My blog used to be called insidethatjapanesebook.com, but a lot of things have changed over the years. I now post about all three languages, journaling, studying Anki and learning Chinese with Genshin Impact. I write mini reviews of the books I read in my monthly wrap up, but I don’t write dedicated book reviews anymore.