January 8 update:
Read a little over a page of 時をかける少女. This one was a bit easier than the one I read yesterday (or maybe I was just less tired), but overall it feels like I’m scaling a mountain, and I’m still at the very bottom… I’m thinking of switching up my approach: perhaps I should try reading it with minimal lookups, trying to get a basic understanding of what’s happening without much details. Finishing an actual book this way would still be an achievement of sorts, and I’ll probably get more out of it than if I plough through a few more pages in my current thorough manner, and then burn out and give up.
I was a bit confused, but you kept the profile pic, which helped a lot 
Lovely username! Have you considered how you’d spell it in Japanese? My best guess would be 夏花 or 夏葉, but Jisho suggests a dozen options.