コンビニ人間 Home Thread (Intermediate Book Club)

Sylph · May 17, 2019, 6:16pm

Welcome to コンビニ人間

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Read-along Sessions

Come and read from the previous week’s section, join in the chat about this book (also the previous book, possible future books, WK reviews, all things Japan-related, what else you did on the weekend, etc) or just lurk and listen. Readers of all speeds and abilities welcome - we are here to help each other out. Reading sessions will be held every Sunday at 9:30pm JST.

Next session (in your timezone): Sunday, July 7, 2019 12:30 PM TZ

Reading Schedule

Starting date: June 29th

Week	Start Date	End Page (PB)	End Page (HB)	End Kindle Location	End Percentage Ebook	End Phrase	Pages
Week 1	June 29th	18	13	129	9%	どんどん大人になっていった。	11
Week 2	July 6th	27	22	229	15%	人間にしているのだった。	9
Week 3	July 13th	36	31	320	20%	世界を信じている。	9
Week 4	July 20th	49*	44*	461	29%	と店長が言った	13
Week 5	July 27th	62	55	575	36%	唇を拭った。	13
Week 6	August 3rd	77	70	733	45%	同じ朝を微笑んでいる。	15
Week 7	August 10th	89	82	846	52%	へと向かった。	12
Week 8	August 17th	100	92	961	59%	済んだのに、と思った。	11
Week 9	August 24th	111	103	1071	65%	口に運んだ。	11
Week 10	August 31st	121	112	1165	71%	私のかけがえのない同志だった。	10
Week 11	September 7th	134	125	1294	79%	見つめていた。	13
Week 12	September 14th	146	137	1415	86%	ぼんやり見上げていた。	12
Week 13	September 21st	161	151	1562	95%		15

*Not a real break point.

Discussion Rules

Please use spoiler tags for major events in the current chapter(s) and any content in future chapters.
When asking for help, please mention the chapter and page number. Also mention what version of the book you are reading.
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Additional Resources - Vocabulary lists

FloFlo Word List (Requires free account)

Proper Noun Readings

Name	Reading	Notes	Proof
古倉	ふるくら	Main character’s last name	Furigana
恵子	けいこ	Main character’s first name	English version description
菅原	すがわら	Coworker	Common reading
泉	いずみ	Coworker	Common reading
白羽	しらは	Coworker, week 4	Furigana
麻美	まみ	Sister, week 5	Common reading
悠太郎	ゆうたろう	Nephew, week 5

Sylph · May 17, 2019, 6:19pm

Are you planning to read コンビニ人間 with the book club?

Yes
No
Not sure
Yes, but I might start late

0 voters

If so, which version will you be reading?

eBook
Paperback
Hardback

0 voters

Sylph · May 17, 2019, 6:23pm

There seemed to be a few people talking about delaying the start of this book with respect to Haruhi so here’s another poll to decide on that:

When would you prefer to start reading コンビニ人間?

June 22nd (No delay)
June 29th (1 Week delay)
July 6th (2 Weeks delay)
I don’t care

0 voters

daines · May 17, 2019, 7:35pm

Might be worth changing the book version poll to three options:

eBook
paperback
hardback

I thought there was at least one more besides me with the hardback.

I’ll try to see if I can correlate the page numbers when I have access to the book later.

Sylph · May 17, 2019, 7:53pm

Apparently you can’t change a poll after 5 minutes

elynchbell · May 17, 2019, 9:00pm

I’m not sure which edition I got until my black ship box turns up. I just got the cheapest one on amazon marketplace.

Naphthalene · May 17, 2019, 9:14pm

You can remove it and add another poll.
You can fake that by changing the name of the poll

[poll name=anewhope … (rest of the options)]

seanblue · May 17, 2019, 9:23pm

You might want to note in the schedule to read the page without a natural break to the end of the page. We might also need the end of the last line each week like Kino so it’s easy to identify.

Naphthalene · May 17, 2019, 9:25pm

(for people with e-books who do not have convenient page counts)

Sylph · May 17, 2019, 10:27pm

Updated the book version poll, sorry to everyone that had already voted

@seanblue I have the ebook so I’ll need someone to tell me the sentences. I don’t know if this might make it easier (pages are different?):

Intermediate Japanese Book Club (Coming Soon: 地球星人) Reading

Agreed on being OK with going slower on Convenience Store if it helps folks keep pace. I, personally, am planning to start shifting more time to reading test-prep stuff. The book only has a single chapter, but has relatively frequent breaks. Here’s the breakdown for the hardback: 3 ーFirst Page 7 ー並べ始めた。 20 ー確かに誕生したのだった。 22 ー人間にしているのだった。 31 ー世界を信じている。 38 ー膝の上で静かに撫でた。 52 ー女性客に告げた。 55 ー唇を拭った。 67 ー見つめていた。 77 ーやっとわかっらような気がした。 80 ー微笑みかけた。 82 ーへと向かった。 92 ー済んだのに、と思った。 97 ー吹い込まれていた。 103 ー…

seanblue · May 17, 2019, 10:29pm

If you make the main post a wiki I’ll add them over the weekend.

daines · May 17, 2019, 10:41pm

I added in the hardback pages and what I suspect are the ending phrases for those sections (projecting the 4-10 page drift between the versions over the course of the book). Please edit the ending phrases if I got them wrong, and delete the HB page number, then—once I know the exact ending phrase—I can update the HB page.

seanblue · May 18, 2019, 1:21am

You got them all right. Thanks!

Raionus · May 18, 2019, 9:01am

There’s been a vocabulary list on Floflo for the last couple of months, if anyone is interested in pre-learning vocab.

Based on the word parser, here’s the book stats for a WK user at level 30:

~3.3k words that aren’t katakana and about ~1.56k words to learn.

Book stats for a level 30 (2+ frequency words only)

of ~1.7k words about ~540 are unknown

Anyway, yeah, based on the word counts I think this will be a pretty decent book even for people who are new to reading, especially since there are people in the thread to help with grammar

Sylph · May 18, 2019, 9:34am

I had forgotten this was on Floflo.
Welp, added to the first post now. (I don’t think there is a way to get a more direct link? Correct me if I’m wrong)

Those stats give me hope that this one will be manageable enough that I’ll have time to attempt not getting crushed by Haruhi buut we’ll see. I have heard scary things about that book…

Raionus · May 18, 2019, 5:12pm

This is a direct link but for some reason it’s bugged for users who aren’t logged in. No idea what’s causing it right now.

Yeah idk I think I’ll be passing on Haruhi. It looks hard so if I’m interested im just gonna watch the anime

seanblue · May 18, 2019, 5:18pm

I’ve heard it’s really hard (and the stats on Floflo would support that), but the sample wasn’t too bad. Also, the anime looks like it’s a pretty confusing adaption, which is why I haven’t watched it and wanted to read it instead.

Sylph · May 20, 2019, 12:05pm

It seems no delay and 2 weeks delay keep being tied…
Maybe we can do 1 week delay so that literally no one gets their way

rokon · May 20, 2019, 1:07pm

But that’s part of the charm (think: the last episode of Evangelion). And you could always watch it in the chronological order instead of airing order. I recommend trying it out after you’ve read the source material, at least for the kyoani visuals.

seanblue · May 20, 2019, 1:40pm

I hated the last episode of Evangelion and End of Evangelion.