And here is Week 2
八週＋一日
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I’m importing the book to LingQ week by week, and I have to cut up the audiobook manually to match. I did the same for Kiki’s Delivery Service and that book was roughly 1.3 minutes per page, and luckily that heuristic is working for this book as well!
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I spotted this week that the English version of the Pregnancy Calendar story was published in English in the New Yorker in the past. You can read it for free as long as you haven’t been reading any other New Yorker articles recently.
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Very nice. However it is an abridged version. Some scenes are missing completely (e.g. the sister coming home with her first ultrasound picture, the husband’s parents visiting).
BTW: Checking on the dates and weekdays I found that the story takes place in 1980 or 1986 (or before 1970).
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Week 4 is here. Last week of the first story!
二十七週
(This week’s fruity comparison strikes me as problematic, as cauliflower vary so much in size. To keep this in perspective, according to the standard インターネット comparisons. 二十八周 is an 
. So you have to imagine a fairly small cauliflower I think)
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二月十日
As 妹 was describing the effects of 姉’s morning sickness, waist shrinking, hollow cheeks, and pointed jaw, I was thinking “Oh she sounds so sickly” and then the next word was きれい 
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There seems to be a gentle background of disordered eating in Japanese fiction. I feel I often see a skinny character fussing about their weight and not eating too much.
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Week 5 is here
We are moving on to ドミトリイ
(If anyone has a physical copy and wants to let me know of the page numbers for the breakpoints in this story I can add them to the table above and the weekly post)
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Page numbers for last page of each week for ドミトリイ
Week 1 - 93
Week 2 - 113
Week 3 - 134
Week 4 - 148
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thanks! schedule updated accordingly!
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