ooh I see, it’s either something from your long challenge list, or another something from your long book club list…
this sounds like a good candidate for, what do you most just want to pick up, even if it’s not even on that list 
(amazing list by the way…)
Not really… the whole thing is only 25 pages, so these amazing-sounding 20% amount to 5 pages which is incredibly slow even in my book 
My excuse is that it’s a new author (whom I kinda love already) and it’s an old book (from the 1930‘s I think) which means quite a bunch of interesting words and kanji…
New kanji of the day: 筈 はず grrr 
Right now I am at 11.5 pages in 2 hours. Still on track for the „volume in one day“ bingo spot 
Well, I could also include my long bookwalker 積読 list, but I don’t even want to reveal how many things I buy and then forget I bought 
Ended up still being up for a bit and somehow still felt like reading something, so knocked out volume 2 of 長瀞さん before bed. Super quick at this point, level 20 series. Checking the pocket web magazine it looks like the first ch I read online was 106, which is somewhere in like volume 12ish.
Reading the later chapters of this series it’s a pretty sweet, sports and art competition focused cute romcom. It’s almost like アオのハコ (but still a tad more lewd), but going back to the beginning when nagatoro is genuinely a bully is pretty jarring. Definitely don’t blame people for getting turned away by this series
a devious mind at work
+30 min, 160 pages
I became busy with work and school, so I’ll try to use the day to finish 葬送のフリーレン.
I knew about Goro’s reference, but I didn’t realize Joker was a reference himself let alone based around the antagonist! I don’t think my reading ability is high enough for Edogawa, but I’ll certainly try for the sake of Persona. 
Second session, I read the 2nd third of my goal for today.
My favourite fun fact from the reading today so far is that in 1 second, light can travel 7 and a half times around the Earth (well… if that’s how light worked, but I liked the illustrative comparison), whereas in air sound would travel just over a few hundred meters. We all know light travels way faster than sound, but it’s fun to compare the scales. I also had forgotten, from some distant stars light has been traveling several million years to get to us.
There was also a story about lightning. The part about the electrical charge sounded like the opposite direction as a recent documentary I saw about lightning. Well, it turns out if you do an image search for “lightning clouds charge” you’ll see images from reputable sources showing both types of lightning (negative and positive). I had no idea the earth itself could build up local areas of positive or negative charge, and if that is true that is just wild. I had thought the earth generally had a slightly negative charge and that was that. I mean, there’s a reason we “ground” things to the earth right, because the expectation is any charge dissipates. So any local charge is being sustained (by… something?) I’m resisting the urge to go down a rabbit hole and learn about this…
+30 min - 22 pages - 2200 characters - 1 source
It is 10:30 a.m. in Montreal; I have finished my morning study routine and am about to settle in for a day of reading よつばと！, doing laundry, and making onigiri for lunch. I am inspired by everyone’s dedication!
I Just finished school.
Let’s see if i can get some reading in before it ends.
Finished 冗談に殺す | L35 in 3:45 h. 
Now I’ll continue with my current book, アンダーグラウンド | L33 .
It’s 17:01 — I’ve read for ~1 of >5 hours… (I spent most of the morning tackling my 300+, down from 500+, review pile — and baking bread). Looking back it’s been one and a half years since I had any sustained reading practice in Japanese, getting back into it is slow going but surprisingly fun too:)
My one hour so far netted me 24 manga pages, so very slow reading here but a (re)start is a start and when I began learning JP 4 years ago I could spend hours on like 5 pages painstakingly looking up everything. So at least I’m not starting completely from scratch:p
I’ve been putting off getting into reading again for a while now, so this challenge was the perfect motivator.
Currently at 2hr54, 76 pages, 6 sources. I’ve been alternating between reading and doing other stuff and that’s resulted in me reading a lot more than I normally would. Normally I stop studying around this time but I think I might read more this evening.
Update: read three chapters so far, just over 10k characters. Probably about 1h15min in total. Not sure I’ll have enough motivation left for my usual SRS after this haha
meagstudies’ summer solstice goals I am a bit busy in the middle of the day but I’ll spend the rest of the time reading! I’m sure I would’ve needed the break from reading anyway
5+ hours
7 entries of 小学生なら知っておきたい教養366 (easy warm up!)
Finish 葬送のフリーレン１
3 chapters of 極主夫道１４ (i.e., catch up w my own club lmao)
魔女の宅急便１ to end of Ch 4
If I’m not at 5 hours after that, I’ll spend the rest of the time reading とんがり帽子のアトリエ１
Currently at about 30 minutes so far today, covering 8 pages. At this rate probably not finishing a whole book today even if it’s a kids book. Around two hours and ~30 pages total if we include that time from yesterday’s reading. Slept in enough that I didn’t get a big block of reading done all at once.
I’ve spent all my reading energy now after just 2 hours and 30 minutes, so I reached 50% of my minimum:/ But I’m happy to have spent a couple hours reading at all and I’ll follow it up with another 2.5 hours tomorrow:)
Thanks for organizing this @taiyousea and everyone else for participating 
G ood morning I have slept “an amount” and it’s time to have some coffee and get back to the books 
I think instead of soldiering on with nagatoro, I am going to be eclectic and use this as an excuse to work on or finish a lot of the stuff I haven’t wanted to do for my bingo. Since I’m only counting orange level or higher stuff, reading lower level stuff for fun has felt unintentionally like kind of a “waste”, but this is a good excuse to dip into those!
Yeah give it a shot! The phantom thieves, using the mere imagery of weapons as a threat, the advance calling cards, the penchant for fine art, even having a character who can change his masks at will, it’s just riddled with allusions, and I don’t doubt there’s even more things to pick up on if I were to read more of them The natively level is honestly a bit misleading if you’re reading in browser with something like yomichan/tan. They are basically kids’ chapter books, but just written in the 1930s with some really interesting choice of kanji/lack of kanji, and some occasionally old grammar that’s a little hard to parse. Once you get into the flow of it it’s definitely on the easier end of aozora old stuff. I’d certainly put it at an easier reading level than actually playing persona (although, not all 江戸川 is like that, some of his books are definitely adult books)
Bingo board 
!! 
Yay! Sounds like this challenge is doing its job then 
You’ve already done an awful lot for someone who’s supposed to be taking it easy
Update 01 | Home post | Time read: 20 min
… so I forgot I’d stopped in the middle of the scientific discoveries week (科学的大発見), which means instead of a light warm up, it took 20 minutes for me to get through 4 entries packed with scientific terminology >_< I was not prepared to start the day reading about DNA and the Theory of Relativity in Japanese
Luckily this section ended with a short, extremely easy 4-koma about the Tokyo Skytree!
Next up is a week on 世界でたくさん読まれている本. Since I read 4 entries from the last week’s topic, I guess I should read 3 from this one? But tbh I’d rather move on to my other books.
Gotta go now, once I’m back home I’ll spend the rest of the day on the rest of my checklist!
It’s just about noon and I’m ready to crack open my books for the day 
Looks like I have a lot to do to catch up with you guys!!
I couldn’t remember the last chapter I read or what was happening (i am also reading this one as it releases about 50 chs ahead, and i misremember where the club is sometimes), so just read through all of アオのハコ | L24 volume 7 for the book club.
Some very good idiots in this series. if you like the parts of haikyuu where people are idiots (endearing), please consider joining our book club for a blossoming romance between a badminton idiot and a basketball idiot
+ 1 hour, 200 pages
Third session today and I met my goal to finish reading the book science stories for 2nd Graders!
It ended with my favourite genre so far for children’s non fiction, a biography. This one of Nobel, so i needed more lookups than in the whole rest of the book since I wasn’t actually familiar with how he made his money: dynamite.
+45 min - 22 pages - 2200 characters - 1 source
It looks like I’ll be the first person to edit the totals table
That’s me done for today! That was so fun and motivating! Thanks for hosting @taiyousea and everyone for the collective energy!!!