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Taking a week break to read my first Chinese Chinese grammar (everything finally makes so much sense! English Chinese grammars are bs). I hope to come back with a vengeance, finish this, race through 鹿鼎记 and then spend the rest of the year on the 4.5-million word 蜀山剑侠传.

Weird to be so far through the volume and still have three more to go just to read one novel. I do appreciate the lightness of each volume, though. Formatting differences between the books of the two great civilizations aside, this book is turning out to look really good. Crazy woman wants to fight the great villain all alone. 李寻欢 doesn't understand and asks, "You wanna marry yourself?!?"

That red kid has the worst attitude of all the nasty children of wuxiadom I know of. What wretched parents to raise a boy without the fortitude to teach him not to kill anybody he wants.

After a few weeks of almost no Chinese, I'm back at it. Boy did I miss it. 我喜欢华人的文华和小说。

So many dead bodies! The plot is forming much more certainly now. The first couple chapters left me pretty confused, but now it all makes complete sense. This is turning out to be a lot better than I had expected. Still 1100 pages to go, I hope I can double my speed eventually and finish by June. After all, I do have the 10-volume 蜀山剑侠传 on its way any day now, or maybe 鹿鼎记.

10 pages in 70 minutes. 900 pages to go. About a hundred more hours before I can start on the next 武侠小说.

Easy but slowgoing. Reread every page to make sure I understand, since this is my first Chinese novel without writing down every character I don't know and their definitions and pronunciations. Not that I would need to, I've been reading several pages at a time without need to open Pleco.