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@liztai@hachyderm.ioIn 2023 I read 15 books.
My usual rate: 60-100.
I think I've lost the ability to read anything longer than a pithy essay on Substack 
I read essays, blog posts, articles, #SocialMedia posts.
But, but ... I feel that I'm losing something with this.
It disturbs me that I can't even focus long enough to complete a chapter. And that all that social media blog content was affecting my mood somehow.
Am I blathering?
How do I regain my reading abilities? 
@EllenInEdmonton@liztai
Reading is an ability and an interest that never really disappears, it just ebbs and flows with whatever else is going on in your life! I've gone under 10 some years and hit 50+ the last couple of them. Be patient, and if you haven't already done so, explore different modalities like audiobooks
I've adjusted down my reading goals for 2025, due to my intense new interest in #kdrama. I'm still absorbing narrative, but in another form.
@liztai@hachyderm.io@EllenInEdmonton Thank you :P I think maybe I need to accept that I want to read shorter stuff and ... Chinese and Korean novels.
@liztai@hachyderm.io@EllenInEdmonton There are fan-translated English versions for those. :) Have you looked at novelupdates or WuxiaWorld, for example?
Also some publishers have actually translated some of them, including Jin Yong's works.
@EllenInEdmonton@mstdn.ca@liztai
At this point, I'm not feeling too curious to read webtoons or novels although that could easily change as I get more immersed in #LanguageLearning and cultural curiosity. I hope to take a long trip to Korea in spring/2025 so I'll want to have adequate reading skills to decipher signs and menus, which seems realistic.
@liztai@hachyderm.io@EllenInEdmonton I think with hangul, it's very doable.
:)
With Mandarin, however ... I'm only at 60 characters and you need at least 2000 to be able to read novels hahaha.