#reading progress

[manifestationfairy]

Goals for 08/01/2024

Day 16/100 Days of Productivity

Meditate (one thing)

Yoga practice

Learning hub tidy up

Ira lunch

Get groceries

Clay making with nieces

5 pull ups

20 push ups

Northern lights finish

Email event space

OBG promotion

#manifestation #100 days of productivity #habits #goal setting #daily goals #faecore #fairies #fairycore #fairy aesthetic #reading progress #reading goals #exercise

[fairyinpages]

★ — february wrap up

february was a very lightweight month, freaking thanks. things were falling back into place and it finally feels like my year has started. everything is official now. i've read very easy and fast paced books and started a book club with friends. it was very good.

books read: 3 — total pages: 962

the princess diaries by meg cabot — 3.5 stars

princess in the spotlight by meg cabot — 2 stars

this heart of mine by c. c. hunter — 4 stars

moodboards will be coming soon, stay tuned.

and welcome march. let it bring more happy endings. ♡

#♡ #2024 wrapped #february wrap up #february #reading wrap up #february reads #reading recap #february recap #monthly wrap up #reading update #reading progress #the princess diaries #meg cabot #this heart of mine #c c hunter #books #reading #books and reading #bookblr #booklr #book rating #rating

[angietherose]

Oh, man.

#book reccs #reading progress

[love-for-books]

Currently reading:

> The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity, page 50

> Death in the Nile, page 32

> Fairies - A guide to the Celtic fair folk, page 74

I bought dawn of everything on a sale, started reading it by chance, and so far it raises interesting questions for some of my writing plans around certain wips.

Death in the Nile is the second Agatha Christie book I'm ever reading, though problaly certainly not the last since I acquired a whole collection of it.

The Fairies book is research for a wip of mine involving fairytale elements, and fairies themselves.

#KR rambles #Bookblr #Reading progress #Books

[rigelmejo]

Read 7 pages of an actual Japanese novel in Kindle app today, looking up some words as I went. Definitely easier than when I tried in summer. Took like 10 or 20 minutes for those 7 pages but hey its better than 5 minutes per page! Which was my initial speed in chinese lol.

I have been using the free lessons in Satori Reader (a japanese graded reader app), so it made me cocky and I wanted to see if I could handle a japanese novel better than last time. I can confirm at least THIS TIME I'm overall following the plot, back in summer I couldn't even do that. I still am vague on some details even with word lookup though, partly due to grammar and partly cause kindles japanese dictionary sometimes gives NO RESULT and neither do its other 2 "definition boxes" giving any result so I'm like well fuck I guess I'll just GUESS this word only then.

Reading a real novel is exciting! And cool! My first time ever in a way, doing it in Japanese.

I'm reading いもうと（新潮文庫), by 赤川 次郎. This author was recommended to me before as someone easier to read with nice novels.

I have been eying the novel: 彼岸花が咲く島 by Li Kotomi, an author who's written in Japanese and Chinese. I heard this novel conveys some story elements by writing only in Kanji, then only in hiragana, etc with very creative ways of using writing changes to tell some of the political ramifications of the story. I am assuming that means it will be a HARD read. (Since for starters I can't read words in hiragana-only well, for seconds I don't have the best grasp on Japanese grammar so altering it could drown me). But the concept or the book is SO COOL oh man do I WANT to read it.

#progress #japanese progress #reading progress #i complain about how oddly my japanese is going but it IS steadily improving #it IS noticeably better than 6 months ago. its just also #not like a whole language levrl LEAP if you mnow what i mean #it sort of reminds me of in chinese month 6-12 #when i could JUST start to watch shows without word lookup but it was BRUTAL then just got vaguely easier #same with japanese lets plays and games this year. #or how chinese novels then i transfered from graded readers hard then easier than novels with word lookup being DOABLE #but not easy yet. and i feel im in the graded reader to it feeling easier to tentative real novels zone #like. once thru this zone ill need probablg another half year to feel 'easy' doing this stuff #but for this period howrver long it lasts stuff gets more DOABLE generally #if that makes sense

[cookie-fox]

Promised Neverland reading update:

I’ve finished the chapters covered in season 1 and about halfway though volume 5 as of typing this. I’m in completely new territory now in terms of what to expect from the story and I’m very much looking forward to seeing where things go.

No Spoilers, Please

#the promised neverland #tpn manga #manga #what im reading #reading progress

[ya-world-challenge]

I've kind of disappeared as far as reviews go for the past month. As work gets busier for the holidays I might be a little slower in posting. I've got a few drafts for reviews and some half-finished lists, so I'll get around to posting those hopefully soon.

(And until I get the review up let me PSA this: When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb is amazing so go read it now - agender angels, sulky little Jewish demons, lesbian immigrants, so much Jewishness and queerness together in a touching story and beautifully written.)

But here's my progress since starting this challenge in April(?) of this year! There's plenty more to go but I don't think it's too bad.

Challenge progress:

21 of 208 countries/regions

🇦🇫 Afghanistan - One Half from the East, Nadia Hashimi 🇧🇸 Bahamas - Facing the Sun, Janice Lynn Mathers 🇧🇴 Bolivia - Woven in Moonlight, Isabel Ibañez 🇧🇼 Botswana - Entwined, Cheryl S. Ntumy 🇨🇦 Canada - This House is Not a Home, Katłıà 🇨🇳 China - Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Sue Lynn Tan 🇨🇿 Czech Republic - Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann 🇫🇷 France - Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, Faïza Guène 🇬🇷 Greece - Tina’s Web, Alki Zei 🇬🇱 Greenland - Last Night in Nuuk, Niviaq Korneliussen 🇬🇩 Grenada - Sugar Money, Jane Harris 🇮🇳 India - Lioness of Punjab, Anita Jari Kharbanda 🇯🇵 Japan - Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Mizuki Tsujimura 🇲🇾 Malaysia - The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf 🇲🇦 Morocco - Thorn, Intisar Khanani 🇳🇬 Nigeria - An Ordinary Wonder, Buki Papillon 🇲🇰 North Macedonia - A Spare Life, Lidija Dimkovska 🇵🇱 Poland - When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb 🇷🇺 Russia - Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko 🇼🇸 Samoa - Telesā: The Covenant Keeper, Lani Wendt Young 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson

Currently reading: 🇺🇸 United States - Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger 🌍 North Africa - Waking Fire, Jean Louise

#updates #ya world challenge #reading challenge #bookblr #reading progress #diverse books #world books

[realllyrandommann]

Not a single day missed

#the beetle #richard marsh #reading progress #goodreads #literature

[animezinglife]

If everything goes according to plan, I should be able to finish ACOWAR tomorrow.

I'm scared.

#funny #acowar #reading progress #audiobook's saved my skin though this time around #I'm a fast reader but trying to cram two large books in at once after work? #and cooking and everything else?

[lovelisara]

— 11 january 2024

super behind. will try to remember everything.

had my last class of the week today, made more progress on my book. i caught up on percy jackson and the olympians. overall a pretty uneventful day!

3 things i’m grateful for:

my computer.

legos.

fake plants.

— love, lisa.

#journal #diary #diary entry #internet diary #internet journal #journal entry #journaling #college #film #college 2024 #legos #fun #school #classes #college classes #reading #book #reading progress #harry potter #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #walker scobell #leah jeffries #aryankhan #dobby #dobbyisfree #dobby is a free elf

[manifestationfairy]

Goals for 30/12/2023

Day 7/100 Days of Productivity

Meditate (one thing)

S excursion

Family dinner

Wrap “lottery” presents

5 pull ups

Page 120 of Pharmanomics book

#habits #manifestation #100 days of productivity #2024 #goal setting #daily goals #faecore #goals #fairies #reading goals #reading progress

[fairyinpages]

★ — january wrap up

january was a very overwhelming month, things just kept being thrown at me and i honestly did not have the time to even breathe properly. this month was not easy on me, so to say i'm proud to have finished three books is an understatement.

books read: 3 — total pages: 1.350

happy place by emily henry — 5 stars

birthday girl by penelope douglas — 3 stars

pride and prejudice by jane austen — 5 stars

and here's for february — let it bring more readings. ✨

#♡ #2024 wrapped #january wrap up #january #reading wrap up #january reads #reading recap #january recap #monthly wrap up #reading update #reading progress #happy place #emily henry #birthday girl #penelope douglas #pride and prejudice #jane austen #books #reading #books and reading #bookblr #booklr #rating #book rating

[mauannacreates]

Hmm, so I've just finished a book today, which is called 'These broken stars:the starbound trilogy'. And I have to say: I really like the voices of the characters (like even imagining their voices as you're reading it, that is one of the best things about it.) and even just following the perspectives of Lilac and Traver throughout those near 400 pages. It's been a really great read.

#readers #reading progress

[emmasbookclub]

My book goal!

I, like many people, have set myself a Goodreads reading challenge this year! Last year my goal was 12 (one book every month) and I was able to read 15. Therefore, I decided to give myself a challenge this year of reading 20 books since I was turning 20! Currently, I am at 15 so I have 5 books to complete by the end of the year. I am also one book behind schedule but I am determined to get back on track by reading a book a week...

I am not sure that it will be entirely feasible with my university deadlines but I am up for the challenge...

#reading progress #book goal #readingprogress

[rigelmejo]

i think a point im trying to make with myself lol is that i really should start reading the print novels i’ve bought extensively. i am definitely at the point where they are both readable/understandable overall without a dictionary, and where my reading speed for them isn’t that much slower than in english (and if we’re honest here... if i make myself speed read in chinese there’s a fair chance its faster than my english reading, if the speed really bothers me... also when the hell did my english reading speed get so slow? idk i think as i got older i got self indulgent about savoring things i like and dwelling in them tbh). my point is, if its a matter of struggling to follow the plot, or reading ‘intolerably’ slow, i have surpassed those points. so they aren’t reasons to avoid my print books anymore.

the only exception is maybe Poyun, Sha Po Lang, and Can Ci Pin, which are probably above my reading level a little bit. According to that zhtool website i’m reading extensively at about 1.8 (with lower numbers being more difficult), and most of the novels i own are 1.8 or easier (with the exception of the 3 listed above). So my dmbj novels, the gyadl novel, the LiuLi novel, modu, zhenhun, saye, hell even the mdzs novel i have in traditional characters i could probably do right now (i have zhenhun in simplified and traditional and figure i’ll read the traditional to re-remember/get used to recognizing some traditional hanzi i forgot or am not used to yet). Related... i saw a new dmbj novel for sale that looks like slice of life old man iron triangle side stories in the village and i’m very... tempted to buy... but i should probably buy reboot novels first (i have the first set of dmbj novels in print, then the 10 Years Later novel). To be fair, all the dmbj novels are online too (so im not worried about missing some).

Maybe i will finish this fanfiction i’m reading, then move onto a print book for a while. usually i read digitally for the automated-audio, but since i haven’t been using that lately and my listening comprehension is getting ignored Anyway, there’s no huge difference for me between using print novels or online ones. Eventually i WILL listen to audiobooks and get some listening reinforcement, will listen to chinese spoonfed audio again for listening gaps, and when i run into new Frustrating words when reading in print i do sometimes look them up and get the word’s pronunciation. so my reading to listening gap is more like “oh no i kept reading 晕 yun as hun for 200 pages (which is easy to pick up the correction when listening), or 小心翼翼 xiaoxinyiyi as xiaoxinweiwei” (yeah idk where my brain guessed the wei pronunciation either).

also @a-whump-muffin i finally kind of get what you mean when you said manga were sometimes harder than novels. i’ve been reading more manhua lately just because i’ve been in the mood, and even though generally i know MORE of the hanzi i see (like 99%), unknown words give me less context to work with. Whereas in novels i can see a lot more unknown words and hanzi and still figure out the plot and a decent portion of the details. since there’s usually like a paragraph per main-detail to elaborate on things. i read some of 你的距离 and its easy enough to follow the plot based on pictures (its about a guy who broke up, looking for someone new on app dating), but a lot of the specific-dating-app words i do not know in chinese and i could Guess what words i was seeing but i wasn’t sure specifically what a LOT of them actually were. Whereas when i read a novel i’ve got like 2-5 surrounding sentences to figure out if ‘vague word’ means specifically speaker or microphone or headphones (when in the given sentence itself any of the words could work). in a manhua its like “well this means something related to ‘match’ but i only have one line about it so who knows specifically what this meant if i see it later in another piece of writing, it could mean ‘paired’ ‘match’ ‘compatible’ ‘selected’ etc). 

#rant #june #june progress #progress #reading progress

[the-rote-experience]

this is where im at. god, im a slow reader 🥲

#realm of the elderlings #rote #reading progress #booklr