January 13, Tuesday
Very important announcement! I have reached an even 1700 kanji in my study routine!!!
Okay, and I’ve just spent a lot of time procrastinating Doing The Thing by trying to figure out if I can do the thing. The thing is this: read Silent Witch at an average pace of 12 (or more) pages per day in order to read it in 4 weeks, finishing before the next Children’s book club starts. Maybe I should just give it a shot and see what happens instead of spending time trying to locate old comments on book club threads on the off-chance that I talked about my reading pace in them … (Which I already did pretty thoroughly actually, and the answer is no, I did not talk about my reading pace besides saying that I was keeping up.)
Wow, I’m just procrastination central today.
Goal: 12 pages per day, 28 days
| day | time | pages | m/p | day total | notes | vocab |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/13 | 34 | 4 | 8.5 | 4 | Mostly recap so far. | 茂み、会得、三昧、筋金入り、派遣、絶え絶え、疲弊、ロバ、ごめんあそばせ |
| 1/13 | 22 | 2 | 11 | 6 | Having to remind myself of a lot of already known things. To illustrate, I’ve left more leeches in this batch of vocab. I saw multiple known kanji that I just completely blanked on. Feels like something is off with my brain today … | 逃避、施す、衝撃、緻密、傍目、兼ねる、教会、設置、徒歩、そっぽを向く、華奢、ビロード、佇む、亜麻色 (this one is essential in Silent Witch  ) |
| 1/13 | 19 | 3 | 6.3 | 9 | I refused to give in! I got some snacks and tried one more reading session. This one was so much better! | 鐘、バツが悪い、後者、遮断、うずくまる、あばよ、急かす、行き交う |
After the second reading session I thought it might not be possible, but the third session gave me hope again. Reading three quarters of the daily goal on the first day is not bad at all. (First day is always the slowest/hardest.)
More soon!
