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I read a total of 587 pages in 476 minutes (or 7.9hrs or 7hr56 for normal people) across 17 sources.
| Source | Lv | Pages | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| レンタルおにいちゃん (3) | 17 | 39 | 15 |
| 風のたてがみ(1) | 24? | 161 | 74 |
| ささやくように恋を唄う 3 | 20 | 30 | 16 |
| しろくまカフェbis 1 | 19 | 83 | 72 |
| ひとりぼっちの○○生活 1 | 21 | 22 | 25 |
| アンリの靴 第1巻 | 25 | 26 | 15 |
| 生き残った6人によると 3 | 26? | 26 | 19 |
| F: 落第生 (角川文庫 さ 24-4) | 30? | 9 | 40 |
| 葬送のフリーレン 5 | 26 | 19 | 29 |
| 薬屋のひとりごと 1 | 37 | 18 | 68 |
| 光が死んだ夏 1 | 28 | 14 | 9 |
| NANA―ナナ― 1 | 28 | 10 | 16 |
| 気になってる人が男じゃなかった 1 | 23 | 37 | 26 |
| 放浪息子 1 | 25 | 29 | 15 |
| 安達としまむら 1 | 25 | 41 | 19 |
| 女装してめんどくさい事になってる[…] 1 | 24 | 18 | 15 |
| 学年別ドラえもん名作選一年生~六年生 | 19 | 5 | 3 |
Ramblings while I read (spoils blurred)
21/06/25
I am awake. I regret this. But it is.
READATHON GO!
First a little rant that google lied about the shop opening times, so I’m eating crisps and a fruit oat bar thingy as backup breakfast while reading the first thing.
First choice for reading is レンタルおにいちゃん. Easy, I love it, should be good to get me into this. Seems I’m ready for Ch 14. It’s so happy and wholesome and oh no she left the diary on the table お兄ちゃん is going to read it! 39 pages in 15m.
Next I read some 風のたてがみ. I already want to take a break from it. I got to Act 2 (so there are chapters) and I think I’ll alternate this with other stuff for a bit. 30p in 16m.
ささやくように恋を唄う Chapter 13 is next. 30p in 16m (I’m noticing a theme). Can’t quite figure out if whats-her-name is trying to sabotage or not, because it feels like she is, and then she does something that seems helpful, but are there hidden motives? I do not know.
Another chunk of 風のたてがみ. It says this is the end of 1 but there’s another 1/4 or so of book left and wasn’t this act 2? Oh well. 88p in 36m.
-break 1: breakfast-
Starting the ABBC pick. They’re halfway through chapter 1, but I’m unlikely to stick to that pace and read the whole chapter instead. 60p in 20m.
Let’s finish this thing. 風のたてがみ, 43p in 22m. I am unsure what any of this had to do with the main story. But it’s done.
Next I read some しろくまカフェ with 39p in 34m. I’ve still another 50ish to go, but my brain’s tired so I’mma try having a nap for a bit.
I think ひとりぼっちの○○生活 only has a couple chapters left so I think I’ll aim to finish this too. I found it amusing how ぼっち’s original plan is multiple ways of just not having any classmates so that she can be friends with all 0 of them a much more achieveable number. 22p in 25m.
Back to しろくまカフェ. 16p in 13m but I need food!
-break 2: lunch-
I don’t feel good. I’m feeling guilty because I don’t feel good. I don’t know what is wrong with me. Part of it I think is noise. Having windows open for cooling down house is adding noise. I think I’ll go close them as I’d rather melt. I can have a lie down phone read of comfort next before back to trying to make progress on goals. Hunger should fix itself soon since I’ve just eaten lunch. If not, I’ll need to snack.
I read a chapter of アンリの靴 though I’m sad to say most the littler details went over my head. Mostly I was annoyed, you can’t return shoes that’ve been used for months even if the owner has tragically died. Probably wasn’t in the best headspace to get it. 26p in 15m.
しろくまカフェ, 28p, 25m
生き残った６人によると. I also do not want zombie puppies to be hurt. Dammit 雫 is a problem! Grr… Anyway. 26p in 19m.
Next on my list of goals is F落第生. Which, physical book! Oh my how fancy. 9p in 40m. I have finished the first of the short stories! I’m not too sure on what actually happened, especially towards the end where we get protagonist’s name for the first time and シュちゃん explains why her nickname is シュちゃん. Protagonist seems to have promised to pay for something シュちゃん couldn’t afford, but then couldn’t. No clue why a wedding dress was being talked about, nor whose it was. But I got a lot of like body language words and phrases through reading this story.
葬送のフリーレン, ch42 it seems is next. Stream of consciousness thoughts will take longer but eh I’m relatively certain I’ve reached my page goal already and this is Frieren dammit.
戦う理由 is a promising chapter title. We know Frieren’s reason, so maybe for the new characters.
Ack my brain is not with it, took me a minute to realise random guy is not their third party member. So, 77 is saying that because his party member is dead (thanks to Fern), they’ve already lost because they won’t meet the everyone together at sunset rule.
不要な殺しが必要な殺しに戻るだけだ。
An unnecessary killing just returns to a necessary killing. Ah, combines with previous line. I don’t mind if you try to attack while my back is turned (but if you do that) me killing you just goes from unnecessary back to necessary.
Ah, Fern did not do a murder. Well, her bluff worked. She’s good at bluffing.
DOUBLE PIGGY BACK!
Or not, shame.
Ah, these are another two who knew each other and got put in the same group. Or well, at the least she recognises him, unclear exactly how much they interacted before now.
BIRDY! THEY FOUND ONE! And, they’re all alive so they get to pass even though two of them are not super well atm.
I’m not entirely sure what the old man or Lao Fen did, but also I think I’m not supposed ot know yet.
19p in 29m
-break 3: dinner-
Ah, the 媚薬 chapter, that’s why I’ve been putting this one off. Well, today I read it and then have more motivation to read more later! Okay, actually reading this time 
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Ack this is difficult I forgot how ugh, I looked up 面白 because there are so many words to look up I didn’t even process I should know this. So, quick break, currently on 11p in 37m? I am not putting a whole lot of effort into this. On the plus side, I know the events even if they are out of order compared to the anime. Like, Fuyou being introduced here in the middle of episode 2 equivalent.
text: 四半時, furigana: さんじゅっぷん ＝ 三十分, me: the fuck is this? (looks at bc thread) 一時（いっとき） is a unit of time. If 4.5 of those = 30 minutes, then… Nope, so いっとき is a 2hr period of time, of which 30m is a quarter, which is half of a half not four halves, my brain is struggle
Okay, that other 7p in 32m, total of 18p in 69m. Nope, I’mma round that down to 68m as because… I checked dog water without stopping the timer. nodnod
Never actually finished the 光が死んだ夏 chapter after the dragonfly distraction. So, 14p in 9m.
Next is to attempt some Nana. I did 10 pages, which considering how dense they are is good, 16m ugh I’m not giving things their proper attention am I?
Right, in order to keep reading but also give my brain a break, I’m gonna not go any highter than the purple on natively and work my way back down to red. I’ve had a little peak at orange and green, and that’s enough.
Uh, green yuri w/ long title. Happy I finally recognised 退屈 without searching it. Yeah, that felt a lot more understandable. 37p in 26m.
Now I wanna start some new stuff until I get tired enough for bed.
放浪息子, brain was not up for deciphering the handwriting character page at the start. 31p, -2 for the skipped 2, in 15m.
安達としまむら, 41p in 19m.
女装してめんどくさい事になってるネクラとヤンキーの両片想い, long title again, but not as simple to shorten it. 18p in 15m
22/06/25
I woke up at 06:20, and tried to squeeze in a little ドラえもん chapter while doing my getting up stuff. I reckon actual reading time probably 2/3 minutes? Because I read 5 pages of the chapter, and the rest after the 06:30 deadline. 10 minutes for those first 5 pages does not sound right, and I was multitasking. As for the chapter itself, this one seems to have been a continuation from a previous one, not that that’s in this collection.
Thoughts
So, I’m not happy that I didn’t reach my time goal, but I got all the others and when I consider how ugh I was feeling for most the day, reaching almost 8 hours is still a good achievement. Except, it came at a cost.
Not all the reading was anywhere near as thorough comprehension-wise as it should’ve been. The worst for this was Nana, looking back all I recall is thanks to childhood stuff, Nana refused to like red or pink or girly things even if she did like them (relatable, maybe why I remembered), and after the granny died she saved up money from her バイト to get a frilly red dress. There was also some stuff about a guy and rumours about him doing(?) something bad. But I realised there were too many moments I was just saying sounds and not actually understanding how they fit together.
I think I most enjoyed reading Frieren because I took the time to do my usual ramble notes and actually take a moment to process what I read. So much of the other stuff I was in such a mindset of “must read quickly must read more” that I didn’t have time to appreciate or feel emotions or anything. Though, I’m feeling kinda ugh still. Maybe if I’d tried to take that time I’d still have barely felt anything and all I’d have accomplised would be less reading.
Last Year Comparison
Because everyone else is doing it and I’m hoping it cheers me up a bit.
I got 100 pages in 4hr23 (across 10 sources but that’s a fun stat not an improvable one). My time isn’t quite double but the pages are a LOT more. If I do some maths, last year was average of a third of a page per minute and this year is a bit more than a page per minutes. So not only have the base numbers both increased, the reading speed has too.
Also, difficulty. I didn’t add natively links last year but looking at them the most difficult thing I read was Frieren. I also read Frieren yesterday! Last year was 65m for 14 pages and this year was 29m for 19 pages. Time is halved and for a few more pages. Other series where I read some today are しろくまカフェ (18m for 12p then vs 72m for 83p now) and レンタルおにいちゃん (15m for 16p then vs 15m for 39 pages now). Improvement!
I also read bits of difficult things now that I didn’t then. 薬屋 is most difficult according to Natively, but I’ve a HUGE advantage in having watched the anime several times that when the characters talk I actually understand who is saying what line and I know what kind of stuff to expect is happening, and that fills in a lot of the gaps. This year I read a chapter (18p) in just over an hour! Last year it seems I was barely managing a sentence or two at a time. Same with F落第生, and this year I read 9 pages in 40m. For me, this is more difficult than 薬屋 because not only do I have to decipher the text, I’ve also got to try and figure out wtf is going on. I’m hoping the next short story will make more sense as I’ll be able to read it quicker.
So, I have made MASSIVE improvements since last year.
I made the mistake of trying to compare with Spring’s as wekk and uh. 薬屋のひとりごと 20 58m oh look I was better at this then. Grr the difference is SMALL this is FINE. I am not looking at it.