So I’ve thought long and hard about this (and took a walk to distance myself), and I must respectfully decline. orz Only because I’ve got more books than I can easily keep up with at the moment, though. 
I have dutifully wishlisted the book, however!
@basilsauce, did you see that Scum Villain got a JP translation announced? By a different publisher than MXTX’s other books, interestingly.
On that note, it’s the final month of the year! Where am I book-wise?
- おばちゃんたちのいるところ-Where The Wild Ladies Are | L32 - I’m behiiiind. Haven’t read last week or this week, and the next section starts tomorrow. @.@ Honestly considering dropping this book. It’s been fine so far; the short stories have been varied. I just always feel like this ends up being “gotta check this off” versus something I really look forward to opening.
- 体育館の殺人 | L31 - Keeping up with it. The audiobook’s been a godsend with how crazy my schedule’s been lately. I haven’t been reading as deeply as I normally do because of it, but my reading speed vastly increases with the narration, which helps a ton with my schedule.
- FLESH & BLOOD 7 | L34 - Was hoping to start this past Monday, but I’ve just had absolutely no time.
Setting a start date for January 1 or so at latest; I’m hoping that once I’m on vacation from work this month I can start early. - 異世界でおまけの兄さん自立を目指す | L29 - This continues to be my “pick it up when I’m caught up with everything else”, which hasn’t been often lately. Might see if I can prioritize this this month somehow to go ahead and finish it up before the year turns.
Books that’ve been on the “read next” docket:
- 秋の牢獄 | L31 - Loool, it’s a good think I didn’t start this
or ユージニア. It had a good chance, and then everything basically ground to a halt the past few weeks. Probably going to be a new years book unless a miracle happens. - 星の王子さま | L22 - Short enough I can still trick myself into reading it.
- https://learnnatively.com/book/47dbe61799/ and D.Gray-man reverse 3 Lost Fragment of Snow | L29 - Sooo I’m still holding out hope I can read through both. At least one, maybe? I’m a huge fan of D.Gray-Man, and started off my year this year by reading the first LN in this series, which I really enjoyed. The goal in the back of my mind was to make the third LN the last book I read this year; start and end nicely, you know? Still possible; I just need to concentrate and knock out everything else first. >.<
I also need to decide if I want to add my manga to my profile next year. I’ve been holding off on doing so so far because I liked how nice and neat my Natively library looked, but as I read more books it grows, and at some point I have to wonder if it’ll make any difference if I add a hundred volumes of manga or so.
I’m also a bit concerned that adding all the manga I haven’t finished will add pressure for me to actually read them; I’m an inveterate list checker-offer, so it rankles a small part of my brain to see so many things in the Owned section that will likely not get checked anytime soon, if at all. (As for why ‘at all’, it’s just a matter of time and priority. If I could I would inhale every book possible this instant, but I haven’t yet mastered that trick…) I’m already having time issues with the stuff I’m currently doing, so adding in that extra internal pressure to add manga to my consideration pile gives me pause.
I dunno, might be worth it to start a (really informal) manga reading club. Something like, “what did you read this month?” kind of thing. If I’m looking forward to sharing about what I’ve read with others it might help. 
Will need to consider.
I also want to contribute to 吸血鬼 research and appreciation at some point in the new year. No real plans for that spinning around; might be worth talking with @Drinos about setting up a 吸血鬼 book of the every other month initiative or something.
sigh I set out to write this post to complain about all the books I don’t have time to read, and half of it is talking about all the extra books I can’t wait to start…
