More reading done. Have had breakthroughs lately with confident scanning of sentences using the typical grammar/syntax of this work. Finding myself mainly naturally reading now, and then just going back to double check vocab/inflections I was uncertain on.
I spent some time today reading random chapters of a latin textbook someone gave me called "An Introductory Latin Course" by a Robert Zaslavsky, published within the past 10 years. It basically seems to be Wheelock but with more overt explanations, reading the preface it sounds like the intent was to make it a little smoother for modern American students who may lack a formal grammar education, and/or homeschoolers/autodidacts. Otherwise the book is formatted basically the same and even covers the same topics in the same order of lessons for at least the first 6 or so chapters. I feel like a major benefit of Lute has been that I can do a lot of reading volume, like 5 hours, and then all of the sudden get a massive amount of benefit from just reading through a grammar textbook without doing the exercises for like 30 minutes. I think I will take the time to grind all the exercises in this or Wheelock when I get farther along and want to try my hand at composition, if ever.