I’m traveling at the moment, but I fly back to Japan on Friday, so I’ll probably read Friday or Saturday, depending on wifi access.
Like @HopeWaterfall, I’m thinking I might end up reading in Korean for this one! (I’m in South Korea, so it feels appropriate.) I’m about 20% into 뜻밖의 계절, so hopefully I can make progress or finish it off during the readathon. The book club for it just finished so I feel that I should try and finish it relatively close to everyone else, haha.
I think I’ll try to read about 25 pages which should take me a long time 
It will be light novel pages so I hope I can reach 25 pages
| Pages | Time |
|---|---|
| 5 | 1h |
| 10 | 2h |
| 15 | 3h |
| 20 | 4h |
| 25 | 5h |
I really like this idea; I’ve been considering just catching up with the recent releases in the series I’m reading, but I have a couple of series that’d be really nice to finally knock out…
I’d like to participate! 
I’m busy Friday and Saturday, but Sunday/Monday should be open in my schedule. Books I’m considering reading (not all of them, haha):
Goals:
Read novel for 6h+
Read more than 66.8k chara (my result from the 
Fall Readathon )
Read a volume of manga (本好き // 夜の名前を呼んで // 花と悪魔)
the sun shines warmly on newly budding flowers 
Hi everyone! I‘m looking forward to joining the readathon again. It just so happens that I’ll be on a six-hour train ride on the 20th, so I‘m picking that as my readathon day.
I really want to read a physical book for at least some of the time, so my plan is:
read at least 10 pages of Summer Wars
read for at least one hour in total
I haven’t read anything in Japanese since probably the JLPT last December so I’m setting my goals very low.
Hello,
I’d probaly start on either the friday or saturday, In terms of goals I’d like to read my first book in japanese as I have finished learning the basic grammer and also may attempt the read the first page 夢色 as this is one of my faverite shows I and I got the first manga tho not sure how far i’ll get in that.
-Reina
Plan is to read tomorrow.
Vague goals - read for 3 hours (I hope much more), finish off one short story, maybe read another. Complete manga clubs and advanced dictionary for the week.
Got off to a bit of a late start today, but I have the day off work, and I’m settled in and ready to start reading! Guess I am starting this Readathon off after all! My hours are going to be 2025-03-19T17:00:00Z→2025-03-20T16:59:00Z
In the winter readathon, I managed 413 pages over 10 hours of reading (still marveling over the fact that I’m even able to read in Japanese at all, much less that I can do it for that long in one day!) This time, I’m guessing I won’t end up doing quite as much in terms of time or pages, since I intend to start my first LN this time, rather than sticking only with manga.
I’ve decided to start with 小学館ジュニア文庫 名探偵コナン 黒鉄の魚影. 130 pages on the Bookwalker app, so relatively short, but all text, no pictures! 
This is also one of the only コナン movies I still haven’t had a chance to watch yet, so I won’t have prior memories of the material to fall back on. 
In case my brain needs a break from the LN, I also have a selection of manga to fall back on:
Happy Reading, everyone! 
oh naruto mention - this will make @taiyousea very very happy
One hour in and I’ve only gotten through the few pages that cover the beginning chase/action scene… I had to look up a fair amount of words, and re-read sentences multiple times in order to parse them properly. I’m enjoying it so far, though, and I am feeling like I really can picture the scene, so yay!
Pausing for lunch, and hopefully when I get back to reading I’ll be able to pick up the pace a bit more…
I saw one of the Naruto discussion boards pop up here the other day, and it reminded me that I would like to read the series (I’ve watched the whole anime several times), so I added the first volume to my latest Bookwalker purchase. 
Yes, join us!!
Go go go! 
I would like to read at least three new graded readers I haven’t read yet. Hopefully, my eyews will cooperate. That’s a big IF, though, but I’ll see what happens. I really miss my reading! 
you can do it!!! 
3 new graded readers soon to be in the readathon stats!!! 
I will start the Challenge tomorrow morning!
Ahead of time I was not really sure what I want to read, and I changed plans a few times, but I think this is how it should go:
. The chapters are short and switch the POV each time anyway, so this perfectly fits the jumping around theme 
And I guess that’s enough for one day 
slides this thread over in a very casual and not at all overexcited manner
Finished the first chapter! That puts me at about 12% of the way through the LN. This is definitely a much slower pace than I’ve been reading manga (It just took me 1hr 45min to read 15 pages, the first 7 of which were images from the movie with captions!), but I’m still enjoying myself. Going to take a break for a walk, since it’s beautiful spring weather where I am today. And when I get back, I’m going to switch over to manga for a bit - probably chapter 1 of Naruto V1, given the nudges I’ve been getting about that!
have fun touching grass
That’s amazing!! That’s awesome that you started your first light novel 
I have a feeling others have maybe had the same experience, but my first novel took forreeever to read lol (I still haven’t even read a ton of novels, and am still a bit slow but shhh) And it was 星の王子さま, very short and should have been simple, but it still took me soo much longer than manga. So I feel like you’re not alone, it will get easier!!!
I have macular degeneration, so even reading English is difficult, especially small print. But I want to get back to reading, because I had gotten to about a 3rd grade reading level in Japanese and don’t want to lose it. It will be tough reading, but I will do my best. Thanks for the encouragement!
AND I have a sakura-blooming story!
how about …
goal = 1 graded reader for the readthon 
given 2 days - 2 graded readers done!!! and doubled the goal 
if really feeling up to it… 3rd is a bonus (especially if it’s a naruto graded reader)
while arguably they could count for readathon…audio books probably don’t exist for graded readers 
the lighted mag glass is a life saver but prescription readers beat the cheap ones from the drugstore.
been too lazy to schedule it (i’d go this friday but someone is forcing me to read 
)
have been going more and more to reading on the computer with ttsu and mokuro
changing the font/zoom for books is so much nicer and the yomitan - takes those walls down
