otoh I'm still paying for a nintendo online subscription so maybe I should try to finish up FE4 and other games on the subscription during the weekend

it's sad but I think I have to leave video games for saturday only. I want to complete 10k of pages read in Japanese before December and I can't do it if I'm distracted by other forms of immersion. I'll never get to finish my Japanese to-read list if I don't lock in.

to finish a book a day lol

I wonder if I should do a mini-cleanse just to see. I think it would be kind of hard because I use my phone for literally everything

the difficulty for this book looks lower than my past 2 books. I'm hoping to vary difficulty levels so I don't get burned out

same tbh. part of it was because I was focusing on foreign language books but also a big part was scrolling reddit and other satanic apps. my goal for 2026 is less unproductive social media, less cable news, and more productive work

I don't read that much Chinese fantasy. Is the prose in these books good?

I think I have a long way to go, but I have a list of more than 200 books I would like to read in Japanese!

I'm still early in my Japanese reading journey but I wonder what new characters and stories I'll be exposed to. My goal for now is to read 50 books. I saw a post on Reddit where someone said they felt better about reading in Japanese after 50 books. I like how unattainable the goal seems now.

So far I've been enjoying 恋に至る病. I think it's a really weird book that I likely would have never had the chance to read if I hadn't started learning Japanese. The more literature I've seen in Japanese the more I've come to think of it as another world I was restricted from.

In addition, I have been starting different video games and shows but haven't gotten too deep into any. I already have been playing Fire Emblem Three Houses since the beginning of this year 2025 but am still on my first (Japanese) route, Black Eagles. I already played Blue Lions route in English.