Repeat Club Discussion Starts Here!
16 January 2021
End Page (PB): 27
End Page (HB): 22
End Kindle Location: 229
End Phrase: 人間にしているのだった。
Welcome to Week 2, and congratulations for everyone who’s chosen to stick with it! If you’re still on the fence, keep pushing through for one more week before making a decision, and get involved in the conversation for a little help and motivation.
Feel free to use past discussion for reference, but please don’t hesitate to post any questions or comments! The more we discuss the more we all learn, and the more fun it is! Also, I strongly recommend setting each week’s thread to “watching” to stay abreast of the discussion. Please try to mark any spoilers as such.
- I’m reading along
- I’ll catch up soon
- I have no intention of catching up or the club has already finished, but I’m using the forums as reference
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Live Reading Sessions
The first live reading session will be 2021-01-17T03:00:00Z (less than 24 hours from the time of this post). If you haven’t already, join the Japanese Book Club Discord. When the time comes to start, just enter the コンビニ人間 voice channel. I will try to log on a few minutes early for anyone who wants to do mic checks.
We’ll do quick introductions (non-obligatory, feel free to comment in Discord if you just plan to listen to the read-aloud), then anyone who volunteers will alternate reading anywhere between a sentence and a page. We’ll allow discussion and questions throughout and see how far we get. The secondary reading time will be Sunday, January 17, 2021 8:00 PM. After this first session we can discuss how we want to use this second time block and how we want to format sessions going forward.
Please bear with me, this will be my first time doing anything like this, and I’m open to feedback from anybody who has more experience doing these live reading sessions.
Please post any questions regarding live reading session logistics in the Discord channel or on the home thread.
Vocab Sheet
@Tonina has generously decided to lead the vocab sheet, but anybody should feel free to add to it. Read the guidelines on the first sheet- even if a word is not yet included you can use the spreadsheet as a tool to get help.
Discussion Questions
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What sentence/passage gave you the most difficulty? Feel free to request some help, or if you figured it out on your own break it down for the rest of us!
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What was your favorite new vocab word from this week’s reading?
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Was there any passage that you found particularly intriguing? Did it resonate with you (either positively or negatively)? Was it surprising? Offer any insight or new perspective? Was it just beautifully written?
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What does Keiko mean when she says she’s been “reborn” as a cog in society? How does her attitude toward becoming such a cog differ from what a “normal” person may think?