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Dec 31 
・ 本好きの下克上 16 (0% → 7%)
Last day of the year, I started volume 16 
First impression: The vibe is different, going deeper into political stuff.
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They really dooo :') I remember one time I was feeling like I couldn’t join because I knew the upcoming semester was going to be super busy and that I wouldn’t have time for hobbies, but people encouraged me to join anyway. So I did! (I’m so grateful for these threads and the nice atmosphere we got here.) In my own way, I went into TINY CHALLENGE MODE trying to read at least a tiny bit every day. Even went as far as to make the font tiny in my home post and daily updates, symbolizing the theme of tiny-ness, ahhh xD
Wiii, thanks! Both of you x3 Looking back, it feels like it wasn’t that long ago since the day I posted the first challenge on a whim. (Didn’t think this would become more recurrent than two months a year.) Somehow, the effort of showing up and trying a bit every day stacked up like snowflakes into a snowball and then into a snowman Or like how tiny drops of nectar becomes a jar of honey 
or how several leaves can fill a whole garden …You get the idea 
It’s all piling up and I’m proud of making that happen :3
I usually post a summary of how each season went for me. I’ll just do a quick one this time.
In October and November I continued the books I had started prior to the challenge (Honzuki 11 and Spice & Wolf). Also went ahead and read Honzuki 12-13. December consisted of Honzuki 14-15 and parts of the fifth book in the series about Saikawa & Moe (with the book club).
Maybe because it’s Honzuki, a series I’m quite familiar with by now, but I feel like reading is a much smoother process now. I guess I can only wait to be hit by reality check when I pick up other books again
Cheers for now and happy new year! 
I’m looking forward to reading the 2 extra volumes with the bookclub in the new year!
December 31 
I feel like I still have a decent amount to go in chapter 2 but honestly it’s impossible to tell, we shall see 
I basically started reading seriously on January 1 in the winter challenge, and went from struggling through a couple pages a day to… I don’t even know anymore 
Between the three 999s, AI: The Somnium Files, and バディミッションBOND, that alone is so much more than I ever would’ve expected at the beginning of the year! I also read exactly one novel, the 上 of 海辺のカフカ, and I’ve still not gone back to it lmao but it’s one to add to the list regardless. I also had the 人間椅子 adventure back on halloween; those are really the only prose things I finished. I also read 32 manga over the year, 21 of which were all the ブルーロック volumes that existed when I bought them. Aside from that I read bits and pieces of various other things, overall it’s really amazing thinking about how much I did this year that felt completely impossible beforehand! I’m so glad I could do these challanges with you all, and I look forward to getting up to more reading chaos in the new year :')
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TUGUMI (with the Intermediate book club; finished Oct 8th)
Flesh&Blood Vol. 5 (with the F&B club; finished Oct 22nd)
人間椅子 (with the Halloween Book Club; finished Nov 4th)
海辺のカフカ（下） (with the spin-off book club; finished Nov 10th)
星の王子さま (The Little Prince) (sauna book; finished Dec 10th)
おいしいごはんが食べられますように (with the Compulsive Readers club; finished Dec 30th)
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See you all in the Winter challenge!
before remembering that it is バディ. xD
. I’m feeling much better, although not quite there yet in terms of energy. Managed to read a bit last night and stopped it at page 100. That’s where I’ll continue into this year. The challenges have helped me to read something every day, even if it was the tiniest of reads.
