I had meant to adjust my goal this month, I didn't think I could get to 100 hour due to the holiday demands, but forgot, I felt like I did well enough, I have about 3-4 books to finish reading that I started to get into....Thanks Olle and fellow challengers for all the inspiration

subtitles-getting so easy!, Reading short story Whose Life is More Beautiful by Zhang Jie, Computer Chinese Instructions and Websites.

Various readings throughout the last few days.

Reading from the last two days: Subtitles-as each sentence comes up I try to quickly find the character I don't know and read it with the speaker as they say and practice saying the characters to myself, Du Chinese story Bao Zheng or Bao Gong-a Song Dynasty upright official and some of his poetry, I sent the poem to my kids to share, read through some Buddhist texts at my friend's kongfu school, he has a library there, it's hard to understand, Chairman Bao story about 8 year old girl buying car for grandfather, Religious talk about the joy found within the gospel of Jesus Christ.

my linghua educational articles-I've picked education as my "narrow reading" topic. This article is about the difficulty in choosing the correct therapies backed by science for autistic children

subtitles, Harry Potter, college textbook with historical stories, a lot of stuff I have is traditional so it's taking me longer to read, but I'd like to go through it since I've had those books for a long time.

Realtime Mandarin-night biking causes traffic jam

Sunday lesson and scriptures-I was able to understand some of the words I had read while listening to some of the talks, Chinese subtitles on drama, Realtime Mandarin-night cycling event in china causes traffic jam

1. reading subtitles-various dramas, surprising easy, in 6 months I may be able to turn off all the English subtitles if I can get a bit faster, sometimes have to pause to read 2. Mulan from Du Chinese, Du Chinese story about Comz song: about the poor kids growing up near the mine with toxic air whose lollipops were arranged by the World Health Organization to help counteract the environmental toxinshttps://youtu.be/D3mpGy42pTQ?si=m_HeMKKCkaPWRJVx -this sent me down a rabbit hole of reading the lyrics to all kinds of music for awhile;Chinese breeze graded reader "ancient painting" story

graded reader:countryside vs city life, newspaper-Us election

Newspaper:political ads

Realtime Mandarin: The Censors article-how censorship affected the Halloween activities in Shanghai this year

Sunday lesson-devout prayer and using prayer to plead for God's help, Realtime Mandarin-intermediate lesson with lots of words about censorship, censors are sifting through tens of thousands of material every day, starting reading a children's book called "Why can't I ?" a story of a little boy who can't play kickball with a friend because his friend is grounded from sneaking and eating a box of chocolate-so it's the conversation between him and his Dad about why parents don't let us do some things.

Realtime Article -on censorship process in China, Sunday lesson-story of Brother of Jared and his faith, Newspaper classified ads-cleaning, transportation and pickup, moving services, cars, and cars for cash

local Chinese newspaper:classified ads, rentals, commercial property, business, and something about cash transfers. My plan is to keep this edition as a KEY because a lot of the information stays the same in the sections. This month I will go through the entire newspaper with my Post-Its. Also, I found out this newspaper comes out 2x a week on Fridays/Tuesdays , it costs 45$ for an ad that runs for a month and 108$ for 3 months.

Sunday lesson topic-Overcoming a lack of faith(I think), I'm reading through the lesson and looking up words I don't using my lingua and mandarin-spot for quick word lookups that I put on post it notes on the page-I can do 1 page fairly well with about 20 words a page I don't know-it's just enough that I can comprehend most of it but still grasping for the main point possibly, then read Zoe's audio transcript, the article is about the life of a censor in China-this one I can get through about a paragraph with not knowing about 7-10 words-so it's slow going. I'm trying out a technique I use with my dyslexic students https://dyslexichelp.org/why-do-dyslexic-people-need-blue-paper/ and trying to read all my materials I print out on blue paper.

1. prep work on a Sunday lesson 2. Reading next Sunday's lesson 3. Realtime Mandarin 4. Reading subtitles on a good drama 4. Reading the job advertisements in the local Chinese newspaper