Day 37: February 6th
Missed 
Day 38: February 7th
What did I read?: ペンギン・ハイウェイ 
How much did I read?: 5 pages
How long did it take me?: 25 minutes
Day 39: February 8th
What did I read?: ペンギン・ハイウェイ
How much did I read?: 9 pages
How long did it take me?: 34 minutes
Day 40: February 9th
What did I read?: ペンギン・ハイウェイ
How much did I read?: 4 pages
How long did it take me?: 15 minutes
Day 41: February 10th
Missed
Day 42: February 11th
What did I read?: ペンギン・ハイウェイ
How much did I read?: 10 pages
How long did it take me?: 41 minutes
I haven’t posted in a while 
Work has been busy and honestly I just…didn’t want to talk to people (even in the speaking-into-the-void sort of way), nothing related to anyone or anything in particular, it was just a very “don’t look at me” sort of week, idk 
I feel like I fall into the trap of “I don’t feel like posting about the thing, so therefore I will just not do the thing” sometimes, but I’m proud to say that most of the time I avoided that and still read despite not posting. The reading is more important than the posting (is something I am reminding myself and finally actually starting to practice). I might continue to not post as frequently while work is crazy which might be most of the rest of the month, tbd, it did seem to help my overall stress balance this week.
Anyway, enough about that, onto the reading 
I would like to say that I am very pleasantly surprised by my speed gains - last week, 10 pages took me 58 minutes and today I read that in 41 minutes? It’s probably the smoothest novel reading experience I’ve ever had, I’m not really sure why that is lol. One thing that helps is that I definitely don’t need to look up as many things as I usually do (there aren’t that many unfamiliar words, and a lot of the unfamiliar words get repeated a lot so I kind of start to remember them). Story-wise, I feel like there’s a lot of like…filler? But it’s pleasant filler lmao, basically just Aoyama thinking and exploring with his bestie Uchida. Maybe it feels like “a lot of filler” because I don’t read that fast still lmao, like if I were reading in “real time” maybe it wouldn’t feel like as much. Also I feel like it’s highly possible that the filler-ish parts will come back and be relevant later, the relevancy may just not be apparent yet. But I love how Uchida just randomly reveals that he has a penguin hidden away Apparently the penguins don’t eat, which is an intriguing detail when combined with the fact that they can be created from soda cans. What are you, penguins 
This is so awesome 
I’m sure she was super relieved you were there to help 