🍁 Autumn Equinox 24-hour Readathon (Now!)

:bookmark: Goals post // Update 1

ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ
Progress: 0% → 17%
Time: 1h 18m

Currently 19:45. Taking a small break. Hanging up laundry. Putting on face mask. Starting to feel a tiny bit sleepy. Maybe I should let the lights be on 100% still. Usually I turn them down as evening gets darker for relaxing effect. Avoided food coma at least. Must have been the slowest I’ve ever eaten.

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Which means now

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I solved the size problem! I took a picture of the reader pages on my phone and sent them to the Picture section of my computer. Now they’re big enough to see!!! :grin:

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This is a true reader’s war paint :grin: !

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:tea: :open_book: 第ー Update

My Readathon Goals ・ Local Time: 11:11am :sunny:

Time Left: 23 hours

Instead of being creative, my reading-related breakfast choice this morning was something of a low-hanging fruit :drum: :smile: Started my readathon day by shooting for the end of the chapter I’d currently been on in Orange, taking me 34 minutes to reach 17 pages. Two minutes per page isn’t my best work, but I blame it on being the early half of the day and for me being too comfortable in my pajamas :relieved:

It’s shaping up to be a beautiful, cool day today! I’ll need to get outside to read at some point and enjoy it. For now, I’ll keep reading Orange and aim for finishing this chapter.

+00:34:00, 17 pages
My total: 00:34:00, 17 pages
(For personal tracking) Novel: 17 ・ Manga: 0

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:bookmark: Goals post // Update 2

ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ
Progress: 17% → 31%
Time: 1h 18m → 2h 28m

Currently 21:15. Whipping out snacks already. Trying not to doze off. Keeping in mind that the BGM must not be too chill.

I wonder if Kanae is still streaming. Must not check, must not check

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Time for a break. Seven pages in three hours so far.

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Is this somehow related? :flushed_face: Maybe a different type of washing powder can help? :sweat_smile::melting_face:

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Snacks acquired for tomorrow! And they relate to what I’m reading becausssssse… Well they don’t but maybe I can think of a link tomorrow

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Haha, two completely unrelated activities. Trying to do more skincare recently :durtle_hello:

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so far after about an 90 min of reading knocked out 90 pages of manga …

still have to finish the last few chapters of painter, that manga has to be level 29-30
so much translated from old timey korean into old timey japanese + lots of keigo… SHM my head …but the full color art is pretty … and I will finish it today …

took a break for lunch a hot pastrami sando with provalone cuz why not… and now gonna break things up with a chapter of wolf book for a bit

and picked up snacks to go with … seems autumny … hopefully the wolf doesn’t pay me a visit personally unless I am the wolf… :wolf:

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omg lol THAT kind of face mask :rofl: :rofl: I was thinking one of these:

and I wondered whether maybe your laundry is still a bit smelly although you had washed it :zany_face: :rofl:

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:tea: :open_book: 第二 Update

My Readathon Goals ・ Local Time: 13:36 :sunny:

Time Left: 20.5 hours

After finishing the section of Orange I was on, I rotated over to manga and completed ナルト vol 5 :tada: I’m moving on to volume 6, though my reading time keeps being delayed by various phone calls and visitors at the front door and my own cat deciding to be naughty :unamused_face: I’d hoped to have read more than this already. But I still have 20-ish hours ahead of me, no need to panic :relieved:

+00:51:00, 87 pages
My total: 01:15:00, 104 pages
(For personal tracking) Novel: 18 ・ Manga: 86

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Nicole, you’re a funny one :rofl:


:bookmark: Goals post // Update 3

ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ
Progress: 17% → 31% → 42%
Time: 1h 18m → 2h 28m → 3h 33m

Currently 22:55. 結構進んでるね :eyes: This book is easier to read than expected. Plenty of phrases/expressions I haven’t heard before or don’t know very well, but also lots of dialogue. The chapters have many good breakpoints which also makes it easier to read. It’s getting late, so that’s it for today. I’ll go to sleep. Will continue reading tomorrow!

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Snacks acquired!

(Not pictured: one kiloliter of green and barley tea.)

@soggyboy may have informed my purchasing decisions on one. :eyes: And I miiiight have sampled one snack ahead of time. Just to make sure it was up to my book’s standards, of course.

No relation to my planned reads, unless one of these snacks has murdered someone… :thinking:

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“Sugar kills”, the doctor said :rofl: :rofl:

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Also what I was imagining :laughing:

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OK, the book is way too hard for me :sob: . I’m going online to find something easier.

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I’m going back to the book with the fawn and Spring flowers story. There are other stories in there.

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:tea: :open_book: 第三 Update

My Readathon Goals ・ Local Time: 15:20 :sunny::mount_fuji:

Time Left: 18.5 hours

You just can’t read Naruto without having cup ramen :head_shaking_vertically: And then I remembered that I had a frosty cold Oi Ocha waiting for me in the fridge, as well :drooling_face:

I finished ナルト vol 6! My first item of the day that I read start-to-finish during the readathon :partying_face: I’m thinking that I will pivot away from manga for now, maybe changing locations to go read Suzume or Orange outside while it’s still sunny and cool out. I’ll let the weather choose my book once I get comfortable ^^

+01:20:00, 138 pages
My total: 02:35:00, 242 pages
(For personal tracking) Novel: 18 ・ Manga: 224

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