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Background
Well, the fall challenge didn’t go super well for me (I think I checked off like six boxes total? whoops 
) so here goes take two! I feel like I’m at a point where my biggest weak point is just sheer quantity of vocabulary (and comprehension speed but well. that’s a work in progress) and what better way to work on that than to read more.
I’ve been reading manga lately to try to do so and I’ve been really enjoying it! It’s still difficult for sure, but as expected my problem is really just vocabulary. 99% of the time once I look up the words I don’t know I understand what’s being said just fine, and that feels really good! It’s a great feeling to be able to genuinely enjoy a story in Japanese, as hard as it may be sometimes - I’ve definitely come a long way 
It’s winter break right now so finding time for reading has been easy; the real test comes when school starts back up. Here’s hoping
What I'm Reading
I have a bunch of first volumes of various manga from a mandarake order a while back to let me try out different series, many of which I either haven’t touched yet or have found overwhelming in the past. But as I also have no self-control, I have a fresh mandarake order on the way as a Christmas present, where I had a much better concept of what I’d like to read than the guesswork on my previous order
So with that I’ll have a number of different series I can try out; I also ordered a few light novels, so we’ll see how I like them! Lately I’ve been reading ラストゲーム on a whim - it’s one that I bought the first volume of in my old mandarake order, and I just got around to reading it. I’ve been enjoying it a lot, very much shoujo rom-com chaos as is often my brand, and the rest of the series is on the way now, so I’m looking forward to (hopefully) reading the rest of that! That’s 11 volumes so at my speed that may very well take me beyond this challenge even, but we’ll see! 
Progress
Currently Reading:
ヴァニタスの手記
風が強く吹いている
錆喰いビスコ
Zero Escape: VLR
Finished:
アゲイン!! ①
ラストゲーム ①
ラストゲーム ②
ラストゲーム ③
Zero Escape: 999 (!!!)