乳と卵 (Advanced Book Club)

NicoleRauch · August 9, 2021, 5:22pm

Welcome to 乳と卵

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Discussion Threads and Reading Schedule

We started reading on Sept 18th, 2021.

Week	Start Date	Chapter / End Phrase	End Page	Page Count
Week 1	Sept 18th	さてしかしこれがさっぱり思い出せない。	44	36
Week 2	Sept 25th	完全に見えなくなる。	77	34
Week 3	Oct 2nd	End Story 1.	107	31
Week 4	Oct 9th	Story 2: あなたたちの恋愛は瀕死	133	27

(Note: One physical page contains ~83% of the text of one BookWalker “standard page”.)

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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Are you planning to read 乳と卵 with the book club?

Yes
Yes, but I might start late
Not sure
No

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If so, which version will you be reading?

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NicoleRauch · August 9, 2021, 5:35pm

Hello and welcome to the 乳と卵 book club!

The book is very short and contains two stories (one of about 100 pages, the other of about 25 pages).
I’ve suggested a schedule in the OP. It’s a bit on the harder side, I was told, but still a modern book, therefore I decided to break the first story into three parts. There are plenty of breaks, so it was not hard to find more or less suitable ones. Happy to hear what you think of the schedule, and whether you have better ideas for it!

Mithrillion · August 9, 2021, 5:53pm

Sounds great! Looks like I won’t take a break from the ABC after 人間失格.
Also, you should advertise The Akutagawa Prize Reading Challenge and vice versa

NicoleRauch · August 9, 2021, 5:55pm

Yay! Good to have you with us

Hehe, good point! Will do

brrricane · August 9, 2021, 8:01pm

The schedule sounds good to me. Looking forward to crossing another book off the Akutagawa challenge list! (And reading the book of course)

miwuc · August 10, 2021, 6:32am

Mhh, the edition linked on Amazon shows フランス語版 for some reason. Might be a mistake on their end? The preview is in Japanese. Since I’m in France, I’d be pretty upset if I ordered the book all the way from Japan, just to get a french edition >_>

NicoleRauch · August 10, 2021, 7:20am

Huh. Thanks for spotting this! Looks weird indeed. It says “French edition” at the top and “Language: French” at the bottom. But the book title and author are written in Japanese, and if you look at the “look inside” it’s still Japanese though

On top of that, there is the Kindle edition page but if you go to “all formats and editions” and select the cheaper of the two paperback options, you get to the “French Edition” page again

I chatted with Amazon support but they only repeated what’s on the webpage (i.e. that it is French). I asked whether they had additional information to support this, but they basically said they only had the same information that we can see.

My guess would be that it is still a Japanese book, but I’d label this as “buy at your own risk”

miwuc · August 10, 2021, 7:21am

Thanks for investigating!

NicoleRauch · August 10, 2021, 7:26am

By the way if anybody manages to grab hold of a Japanese paperback (not a French one ) I’d be grateful for the page numbers of our breaks so that I can add them to the schedule.
Same for Kindle locations and percentages, if anybody is reading on Kindle.
Thanks!

miwuc · August 10, 2021, 7:39am

On the other hand, all the other info (ISBN, publisher, publication date, number of pages) refers to the Japanese edition. This is the French version and all these things are different. As you said:

Naphthalene · August 10, 2021, 8:59am

あああああああああぁぁあああああア!!
I’ve been wanting to read that book forever.

… Okay, I will find a way to join this club despite life.

Redglare · September 16, 2021, 7:54pm

Have you found a way ?

KazeTachinu · September 16, 2021, 8:26pm

I’m traveling until end of September, but may still join for the last part. A shorter book club might actually suit me better than one going for 2 months+.

miwuc · September 16, 2021, 8:38pm

I did end up buying it btw and I can confirm it’s in Japanese.

Shandapanda · September 17, 2021, 12:25am

Paperback
week 1 pg 44
week 2 pg 77
week 3 pg 107
week 4 pg 133?

If still needed

Mithrillion · September 17, 2021, 5:46am

Not sure that I’ll be able to keep up, I have a lot going on in my life right now, but I bought the ebook, and will start reading next week. ^^

NicoleRauch · September 17, 2021, 10:27am

Thank you! Will add it to the OP tomorrow.

BTW what is the number of the first page?

Shandapanda · September 17, 2021, 10:37am

You’re welcome! pg 9

NicoleRauch · September 17, 2021, 7:56pm

Welcome to 乳と卵! Let’s head straight into week 1 - it’s the longest of the four weeks, so I hope we can fully focus on it while we’re still fresh

NicoleRauch · September 24, 2021, 10:23pm

Here is week 2 already!

With this short and fast-paced book, this week will get us to the halfway mark of the whole book, and way past the halfway mark of the first story! Looking forward to hearing what you think about it