At some point. But I’m usually fine with my reading speed. Also, one of my favorite things about reading is subvocalizing, which is the number one thing they tell you to stop doing to read faster. That kinda killed any interest I had in learning speed reading.
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I feel you. I don’t really have a problem with my reading speed per se in the sense that I feel slow, but the idea of just reading the things I wanna read in less time is more appealing. Especially now that its like I wanna focus on other areas of the language, it would be nice to knock out the easy garbage fast.
Interesting you like sub vocalization, though. Especially enough to say its one of your favorite things. To me I guess I never really thought twice about it, so I don’t mind cutting it out.
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I even have an internal voice for everyone, including the narrator. It’s part of the fun, for me.
One problem I have with audiobooks is when they do a voice “wrong” (i.e. the cadence or intonation doesn’t match what I would have gone for).
In terms of knocking off garbage fast, I sometimes get that, though. Like, I found many “100 top 女性向け light novel series” lists and whatnot, and it’s going to take me forever to even get to them, since I already have piles of stuff I want to read first as well. But, heh, life is long.
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Oh man, you’ve got it going over there. I guess now that I think about it I also do slightly different voices in my head for different characters, but its honestly 適当 af. Best of luck on all of the 女性向けs. I’ll be over here sipping on my degenerate harems
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Don’t worry, I have degenerate harems too. They just have flipped genders.
Why are shota, step brothers/cousins, and shota step-brothers/cousins a thing.
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I’ll likewise be at the library this weekend and will check for the book, and I have two other books in progress (with a combined ~400 pages left) so also may be a slow.
You might already know this, but 容疑者Xの献身 had a book club here, and I’ve seen @NicoleRauch say that the threads are left open for such a long time specifically so that people can ask questions long after the original reading times end. Also, if you come across the movie version I’d recommend not bothering with it. It wasn’t very good IMO.
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Beautiful concept. 
I love your philosophy towards reading. 
I like to subvocalize too, not so much for voices, but more to feel the natural cadence of the writing, which now that you mention it seems like a pretty big thing to give up just for speed.
I also feel like I might enjoy some of the same books as you … If you don’t mind sharing your bookmeter I’d love to peruse your reading history. No pressure, though!
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I’m glad to hear I’m not crazy the only one! Yes, the cadence is also a big thing for me too.
I have no problem in sharing it (I’m already sharing it in other places too), but I think you will be mostly disappointed (mostly be cause I would not recommend a lot of the things I read, especially considering the things I want to read now). The main thing was that, when I started reading light novels, I went for stuff that were popular, since I figured that would mean I would enjoy them too. But, generally, that has not been the case. That also skewed my past reading towards 男性向け stuff, since those are the one that sells apparently? And those often come with an annoying protagonist and/or tons of fan service. I didn’t know I had more choice, so I kept going with those series for way longer than I should, and they are cluttering a bit my Bookmeter. 
Well, that being said, two of my favorite series technically belong to the 男性向け category (本好きの下剋上 and 薬屋のひとりごと). I’m not quite sure why. I guess that, in the mind of the people making the categories, gender neutral = 男性.
(In the 女性向け category, my favorites are 伯爵と妖精 and かくりよの宿飯. Additionally 悪食令嬢と狂血公爵 looks promising, but only 2 volumes out so far. I also enjoyed わたしの幸せな結婚 and 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…)
Anyway, here’s the link: Naphthalene - 読書メーター
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I decided not to do the winter one because I was working on getting my 900+ reviews down to 0 <.< >.> So I’m looking forward to starting this one! I’ve been impulse buying a lot of Japanese books and manga recently. Once they come in, I’ll probably be doing graded readers (as I am someone who stopped and restarted learning Japanese at least 3 or 4 times over the past like 10 years or so.)
Until then, I’m thinking either ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂 (Zenitendou, The Mysterious Sweet Shop), ふらいんぐうぃっち (since both of these have already been read in a book club) or maybe the Aoitori bunko version of 獣の奏者エリン (because I just really love the anime so much)
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Ooh, now that’s a glowing recommendation! I’ll definitely have to reread it when my french is better and I can actually appreciate it! 
I only saw 3 books in that series - are the others spin offs? Ooh, wait, there’s at least 3 books titled les mondes d’ewilan! 
Sounds like a year’s worth of reading material, hehe.
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Eh, I was young, I don’t know if I’d like it as an adult. But it certainly feels nostalgic.
They are grouped by trilogy for some reason. There are 4 trilogies in total according to wikipedia.
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Oh, this is an interesting idea! Probably would be good for me to let go of the guilt of not finishing all the books I start 
I will try to approach it with this mindset tomorrow 
Hopefully I will wander into something that grabs my attention. (Something much easier said than done recently, my brain is literally everywhere this week)
It’s trueeee
雨と君と was the first tanuki manga I read, and that is the one I was referring to - as you’ve seen, it contains what may in fact be the cutest tanuki in the whole entire world. Highly, highly recommend for the cuteness factor It’s not super text heavy, so depending on your level it might be a bit easy, but it definitely had more text than the Fox and Tanuki book that you probably also saw on my Bookmeter If you’d like something with slightly more narrative substance (雨と君と is pretty slice of life-y), I really really enjoyed お前、タヌキにならねーか? as well. I’m planning to get the second volume of that whenever I get the third 雨と君と ^^ (I posted about that one in the winter challenge)
Actually I remembered just now that I still have yet another tanuki series in my reading stack Maybe that one will make an appearance in this challenge…
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I’ll be using satori reader for this, easy to carry around a phone to read a little everyday
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So this is very interesting to me as I’ve read (or attempted to read and got bored) a few light novels and this seems like me right now. Both the protagonist tropes and the fanservice are tiring so I kind of just gave the genre up. I might have to give 伯爵と妖精 or かくりよの宿飯 a whirl, as well as 本好きの下剋上 at some point.
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Oh it’s April! Something I’m grateful for the last challenge is that reading has been ingrained as a habit. Now when I read, I don’t think about having to read for this challenge. I just found the time to read and realized afterwards that I can start the April challenge posts from today!
4月1日 ~ Day 1/ Back to Home
ポケットモンスタースペシャル (page 121 of 207 - chapter 22)
We continue from the cliffhanger in the last chapter where Red appears to be eaten by the Utsubotto (Victreebel). We learn that he’s okay and just barely escapes from being turned into acid. More good news: the mecha Poppo (Pidgey) is also okay and helps Red figure a way out by examining his items.
They use the PokeFlute to wake up all the sleeping Utsubotto and Utsudon (which need to stay asleep to complete the evolution ceremony which also requires digesting “living things” for needed nutrition - pretty brutal considering they’ve got some animals and a human on their menu but so is the real world of Pokemon). While they are awake, Red then throws the Pippi (Clefairy) Doll to get away while the Utsubotto has its guard down and loosens its grip on Red.
They run into Nidoking which was also awaken by the PokeFlute, and Red uses his quick thinking to pull the Utsubotto into the battle to weaken it and capture (Utsbutto). Even without it being at full power, Red uses its vines to stop Nidoking’s movement and capture it as well. He seems to be doing alright for himself while the Safari Zone employees frantically search for Red. Pikachu comes across his hat. Thinking the worst, they are at once surrounded by wild Pokemon but are then saved by Red who’s been on a catching spree. Bet it was a first time for them!
It’s funny because you think Red is in real trouble this time, but he’s Red, so of course it ends with him increasing his team. All the Pokemon that were threatening his life are now super friendly smiling like he does.
第２２話VSウツボットの単語
ほどける to come loose; to come untied; to come undone; to unravel
繁殖 はんしょく breeding; multiplication; increase; propagation; reproduction
儀式 ぎしき ceremony; rite; ritual; service
栄養分 えいようぶん nutriment; nutritious substance; nourishment
しくじる to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to screw up
片目 かため one eye; one of one’s eyes
奪う うばう to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
どさくさ confusion; bustle; turmoil; trouble
退治 たいじ extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; eradication; destruction; suppression
計算 けいさん calculation; reckoning; count
生息地 せいそくち habitat; home (eg of the tiger)
It’s been a while since I’ve read PokeSpe (since the last challenge actually), so it’s nice revisiting it after a while. I noticed I could get through it much quicker than usual too.
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Day 1 - April 1
- 美少年探偵団 1 - 0% → 3,19%
This book is really nice so far! The sentences are a bit long, but overall I can follow the story. Up until now with the descriptions it gives me Ouran High School Host Club vibes, and I really like it ^^ I’ll probably read some more later today and update my post.
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㋃1日 – Day 1
- ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 第二巻
p18-48
:3 let’s go beyond humanity!
- おじさまと猫
I forget where I started but I ended on p44
I’ll have to update with a link to my calendar for ease later
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You reading Part 1?
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I’m in!
Day 1 - Japanese Graded Readers (ASK publishing) - level 2
象のトンキー
I love these books. As I read there are some words I kinda recognise but can’t quite remember. Then I look carefully at the picture and read it again, voila, I remember the meanings of a few words. Magic - no dictionary needed!
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