Book Blogger Hop: Fastest/Slowest

It’s Friday, so it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop again, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to use it too if you would like! This week’s prompt is about reading speeds: What’s the fastest or slowest you’ve ever finished a book? I’m not quite sure how to answer this one, honestly! I’ve read some manga and poetry collections incredibly quickly, like between 10-15 minutes, but… for a 300-page book, I’d say probably an hour and a half is about my usual. Maybe closer to an hour if it’s quite fast-paced and there’s illustrations or something — I’ve read some of my danmei collection pretty fast for that reason! On the other end of things, it’s usually non-fiction that takes me the longest. I remember The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club took me a while in terms of hours, though I read it in quite big chunks, so I think I finished it within…