Happy New Year + Read-in-progress post

[geraineon]

It's already Jan 1, 2026 where I am, so wishing everyone a very happy new year and I hope that this year will treat you much better than the last.

This is also your weekly read-in-progress post~

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Comments

[silverblade219]

Happy New Years! 🎉🎉🎊

[geraineon]

<3

[anne]

Happy New Year!

My company went to a used bookstore and came back with vol 1 of My Husband And I Sleep In A Coffin, and I read the first few chapters and immediately bought my own on alibris. (Alibris also had the brand-new Vol 2, for $5 off, so I got that too.) I need to get rid of some other books so I can expand my danmei shelf, help

[geraineon]

I've a friend who really likes that title! How's the tl so far?

[anne]

Bearing in mind that I'm only a few chapters in and I didn't read the fan tl...the official version has no Latin so far!

[duckprintspress]

Happy New Year!!

I finished reading the Chinese manhua of Copper Coins by Mu Su Li.

This morning I also sat down and read the first page of Daomu Biji in Chinese and the first page of Global Examination in Chinese. It... didn't help me decide which to tackle at all, lmao. I found DMBJ a bit easier to read - the grammar was more structured and the vocabulary was closer to my knowledge - but I also love QQGK and I'm prepared to work through it being a little more difficult for me. I'm too indecisive. So I made a Tumblr poll. I'll read whichever wins. So far that's looking like DMBJ.

If anyone feels like voting... https://www.tumblr.com/duckprintspress/804462647350280192/i-am-indecisive-so-i-am-outsourcing-making-a?source=share

[geraineon]

Haha. I'd vote DMBJ as well, tbh!

[duckprintspress]

that's what I started! :D it's very slow but I feel like I'm understanding more of it than I understood of ISMM, so that's reassuring.

[mekare]

Happy New Year!

[geraineon]

<3

[sam_gardener]

Happy New Year! Thank you all for being here. If I made new years resolutions one would be to participate more next year.

[geraineon]

<3

[halfcactus]

The mermaid baihe manhua 風之咒 The Wind Spell has officially ended so I tried to catch up, but ended up losing time to listening to music and imagining them. 😂 Happy New Year to this comm! Hoping to finish a cnovel/comic next year since 2025 was so bad for reading. ♥

[geraineon]

It's been a really bad reading year for me too tbh. Started many, did not finish many. Not because they weren't interesting, more because my attention span is not great and I keep starting new stuff... May 2026 be a better reading year for both of us

[lee_bella]

Happy New Year and good health to all!

I'm starting the new year with a light-hearted showbiz danmei novel: Reborn As The Villain President's Lover (穿成反派总裁小情人) by Lin Ang Si (林盎司). There is a bit of talks about driving and cars as the Chinese euphemism for sex, though not as much as what Lin Ang Si did in their later novel, The Cannon Fodder Just Wants To Be A Toolman (男配只想做工具人). I don't think I could look at sports cars the same way again...

[geraineon]

XD I think I have come across that title before. How long is it?

[lee_bella]

Reborn As The Villain President's Lover (穿成反派总裁小情人) is 740k+ in word count (167 chapters + 47 extra chapters).

The Cannon Fodder Just Wants To Be A Toolman (男配只想做工具人) is 1.1 million words long (213 chapters + 59 extra chapters).

[douqi]

Happy new year!! And thanks for running this comm :)

[geraineon]

<3 and thank you for the same, baihe comm!