to progress in reading a book

進める: to advance / 薦める: to recommend / 勧める: to suggest, to advise / 奨める: to encourage, to offer

absorbed (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)

a trance, absorption in something or someone

to recommend

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

grind / rub / study / research

order