僕が愛したすべての君へ 📦 (Intermediate Book Club) ・ Week 16

Week 16 3 Jun 2023
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Vocabulary

Discussion Guidelines

Everybody should feel free to post and ask questions–it’s what makes book clubs fun! But please do not post until you are familiar with Spoiler Courtesy!

Spoiler Courtesy

Please follow these rules to avoid inadvertent ネタバレ. If you’re unsure whether something should have a spoiler tag, err on the side of using one.

  1. Any potential spoiler for the current week’s reading need only be covered by a spoiler tag. Predictions and conjecture made by somebody who has not read ahead still falls into this category.
  2. Any potential spoilers for external sources need to be covered by a spoiler tag and include a label (outside of the spoiler tag) of what might be spoiled. These include but are not limited to: other book club picks, other books, games, movies, anime, etc. I recommend also tagging the severity of the spoiler (for example, I may still look at minor spoilers for something that I don’t intend to read soon).
  3. Any information from later in the book than the current week’s reading (including trigger warnings that haven’t yet manifested) needs to be hidden by spoiler tags and labeled as coming from later sections.
Instructions for Spoiler Tags

Click the cog above the text box and use either the “Hide Details” or “Blur Spoiler” options. The text which says “This text will be hidden” should be replaced with what you are wishing to write. In the case of “Hide Details”, the section in the brackets that is labelled “Summary” can be replaced with whatever you like also (i.e, [details=”Chapter 1, Pg. 1”]).

Hide Details results in the dropdown box like below:

Example

This is an example of the “Hide Details” option.

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This is an example of the “Blur Spoiler” option.

Posting Advice
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Live Readings

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Proper Nouns

Name Reading Notes
高崎暦 たかさきこよみ The main character
ユノ ユノ His grandfather’s dog
瀧川和音 たきがわかずね A top student in 暦’s class
虚質科学研究所 きょしつかがくけんきゅうじょ Institute of Imaginary Science
佐藤綾子 さとういとこ The founder of imaginary science
りょう 暦 and 和音’s kid

Participation

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Will post some real thoughts eventually but first have to post a meme.

meme

暦 trying to find the killer

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I think I will go all the way and read till the end this time. Can’t take the suspense anymore :joy:.

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That’s what I just did, so I’ll be saving my thoughts for the final thread. :grin:

Suffice to say for now, that I ended up just being sucked in again at the end. :joy:

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Spoilers

When last week ended in such a foreshadowing way, I expected to get a more satisfying explanation of why his parallel self killed the wife, who is basically innocent and only came by to apologise, right? So why did he kill her? Only out of revenge? I guess up to that point you could say that it was a crime of passion out of the extreme grief for losing their son, but then instead of turning himself in he manipulates the whole situation to buy his wife a little more time in the dimension where their son is still alive. That turns it into a a more cold-hearted crime in my opinion.

I was also missing some soul-searching from our own 暦: if his parallel self (in a parallel world not so far away) is capable of killing an innocent woman, what does that say about him? But he seems to write it off as pretty understandable given the situation.

He only seems concerned with the vow he made to 和音 to love all her parallel selves. But what about 和音? Does he still expect her to love all his parallel selves? Including the murderous, manipulative ones?

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I put my thoughts on Natively, cause I got slightly pissed at the author :sweat_smile:. I don’t think I will be reading any of their future books.

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Finished this part (and the next one as well, more on that in the next thread). Couldn’t bear with the pseudo cliffhanger this chapter ends with. Very easy chapters I think, barely had any problems reading it, and I didn’t need to look much up.

anyways, thoughts

I really didn’t enjoy this part. Last week ended with “I know who the killer is”, and three sentences later Calendar just goes “oh yeah, btw, it was me” and then feeds us the reasoning like we were newborn birds needing to be fed. Even though a bit earlier the thought that it was maybe other world Calendar, who did the deed was impossible. And all that just so his wife could spend more time with their child while not thinking about the feelings of the other Kazune? Seems a bit out of character, but I guess that’s what a distance of 13 does to somebody.

And then we jumped about 30 years. And then another 13. Holy hell. I had a really strong feeling of déjà vu there, rehashing the same exact thing as in the first chapter. I reserve my thoughts about the last part of the book to its respective thread (and don’t worry, I have quite a bit to share about it).

Anyways, 川の字 is my new favourite word.

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