Another week, another adventure with our Professor 
Here is Week 10, which gets us across the 50% mark 
1 Like
Are y’all still reading? We left the longest week behind us, now it’s only going to get easier 
Still reading! It’s gotten easier, is all.
3 Likes
@Kumirei Going to read this book? 
I plan to start in a few days after I’ve finished SAO 6. Not sure if I can catch up, but I’d like to try.
5 Likes
Nah, I don’t have much time to read right now
2 Likes
Alright, good luck with busy stuffs :3
2 Likes
I am planning to read this book once I am caught up with other book clubs though
(Still need a few days for re:zero, and maybe one day for Kiki; also 3 days for 本好き25)
7 Likes
oh! Same plans! 
4 Likes
Nice! Looking forward to having you and @Naphthalene on board!
Also, I have a favour to ask you two (and others who are catching up):
We initially had a discussion about the amount of text to read per week, and once we finish the book, I would like to reflect on that for a bit. For those who read along, the weekly chunks and the breaks are of course more perceptible than for those who catch up and read several weeks’ worth in one go.
Therefore, I would like to ask you to get an impression of the weekly chunks anyway, maybe by pausing for a moment at the designated breaks or something? Once the book is finished, I think I would like to ask the participants about their opinion regarding the weekly amount of text and the locations of the breaks. Thanks!
3 Likes
Hmmm… I guess I forgot to post the link to Week 12’s thread when I created it 
Here it is:
2 Likes
Here comes Week 13:
2 Likes
Now let’s see how this chapter is going to end!
At the end of this week’s reading, there is no break - sorry! I hope we don’t encounter a bad cliffhanger there…
Well, I ended up taking much longer as I moved on to read the rest of 本好き in its web novel form, but I’m now done. How are things on your side?
3 Likes
I finished chapter 2 a week ago, but haven’t read further since then. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to catch up on the book club, but once I made sure I could read one week’s amount per day I guess my brain decided the progress in and of itself was satisfactory, and I ended up just… not reading 
Brain and motivation and stuff can be veeery interesting at times 
I’ve been enjoying the book so far though, so I’m ready to read more :3
7 Likes
Happy New Year everybody! Here is Week 16:
This week, we need to stop again at a location without break - sorry! But I promise it will be the last time - after this long two-week chapter there are only one-week chapters remaining.
1 Like
Here comes the final part of our last long chapter:
3 Likes
I was somehow 40 pages behind, so I decided to do a catch-up day. I do screen free Saturdays, which I thought was the perfect excuse to force me to only mostly understand from context and Kanji knowledge, and only look up words when I just really couldn’t get the gist of a sentence. Paper dictionaries really give me an incentive to try and figure out a word from context .
I went into it thinking it would be really hard to understand, but it worked great! I only ended up looking up about 15 words total, and while I skipped a lot of words I probably would have preferred to look up, I’m caught up!
Not only do I feel more confident that I will finish the book, I appreciate the practice in making sense from context. Especially the part where the Professor is explaining the importance of zero in the context of a ruler-- I knew almost all of the kanji, but they are used so strangely in ruler terminology. It took me a while to figure out that he was talking about a ruler, but I don’t think I will forget what a 物差 is.
5 Likes