僕が愛したすべての君へ 📦 (Intermediate Book Club) ・ Week 4

Week 4 11 March 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.

The “Blur Spoiler” option will simply blur the text it surrounds.

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

Posting Advice
  • When asking for help, please mention the page number, and check before posting that your question hasn’t already been asked. As the threads get longer, it becomes more convenient to use the Search function, which is located in the upper right corner of the forum. It is the magnifying glass which is near your profile picture! The best way to search is usually to type part of the sentence you are confused about, and select “in this topic”. This will show you all posts within the current thread which has that string of text.

  • Be sure to join the conversation! It’s fun, and it’s what keeps these book clubs lively! There’s no such thing as a stupid question! We are all learning here, and if the question has crossed your mind, there’s a very good chance it has crossed somebody else’s also! Asking and answering questions is a great learning opportunity for everyone involved, so never hesitate to do so!

Live Readings

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Proper Nouns

Name Reading Notes
こよみ The main character
ユノ ユノ His grandfather’s dog

Participation

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End page is 63 for this week I think.

I like that the story is picking up pace, but where is the main girl? :joy:

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I knew it I knew it!!! I was so sure this entire time that the airgun would be in the treasure box and I WAS RIGHT!! I know it was obvious but I’m so happy my understanding was good enough for me to predict something!! And even though I saw it coming it was still touching in its simplicity.

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鍵をもらえなかったこととは別の後悔が、初めて僕の中に生まれた。

This sentence made me groan out loud. I accept the fact that he’s a kid and all, but just now realizing that maybe, just maybe, you should feel sad about something else than that god damn box. This is psychopathic levels of apathy.

The tech mumbo jumbo at the end was also quite difficult to get through. It sounds conceptually simple, but the sentences were 95% kanji and only barely any kana.

I’m also now realizing that we’re about a quarter of the way through the novel and yet there’s no romance to see yet? Only the saga of the airgun. I really hope this personal event calendar man was talking about is meeting the girl, because to be entirely honest, the romance aspect was one of the reasons I signed up for this book.

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There is also a couple of things Koyomi says after which make it seem like he didn’t really care so much for his grandpa. His concern with the box rather than his relative to me personally is also weird. Not sure if it’s a narrative decision (try to push the plot into a specific direction), but to me as a Western reader it’s unsettling to say the least.

Regarding the romance, just keep on reading ;).

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Absolutely. When the book started going on about the grandpa preparing candies even 2 years after he stopped going there, that was just straight up painful.

Having been a 10 year old at least once in my life, I don’t think a kid acts like that.

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This is always a risk when reading at intermediate book club pace. I read the whole book in a week, so this chapter only took a couple days to read, not a month. Because of that, this all felt like an introduction to the kind of things that can happen in this setting, and I wasn’t focused as much on some of the oddities in the story choices. I totally get the complaints though.

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I finished the main part of the chapter last week but didn’t do any reading on my 4-day vacation. Just finished 幕間.

Glad to be out of this chapter and see where the story goes.

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