Here is week #10, now it’s not far until we finish the first part of this book!
Quick heads up: Next week I will only be able to set up the new thread on Sunday evening (travelling once again without computer, for very different reasons but still ).
I guess y’all know what to do in the meantime
The end of the book is drawing near, and we should decide when to continue with the second part of the book. This week we’ve seen the last Nakata chapter of this part, and there will be one more upcoming Kafka chapter (if everything continues as before). So I guess we can already start to gauge how much of a cliffhanger this division will bring about…
Let’s continue straight away (on Aug 20th)
I need a one week break (on Aug 27th)
There is no other option (or is there? Pls explain)
For those of you who are planning to continue into Part 2: I’ve added a reading schedule to the OP.
When I finally got around to checking the page counts, I discovered that there are quite a bunch of shorter chapters in this part, and when I realized that the initial plan of reading 2 chapters per week might only give us ~25 pages sometimes, I decided to change the schedule somewhat. Please have a look at my proposal in the OP; it usually gives us max. 50 pages per week, with two weeks being a bit longer (but they are surrounded by shorter weeks so you can mitigate this if you are worried). The schedule covers 11 weeks and gets us to the end of the whole book on Nov 4th. (BTW I think this is perfect timing; the next ABC pick after Spice and Wolf will start on Nov 5th.)
What do y’all think?
The schedule is fine for me
I’d like to propose a change to the schedule (please explain)
0voters
Oh and by the way, while doing the page counts I discovered that there is a (very short) hidden chapter somewhere in the book, just like an easter egg I deliberately did not indicate it in the schedule so that you can still be surprised by it if you like
After the first few weeks, we had a very steady number of participants! Also there were two discussion spikes, one after the Johnny Walker chapter and one after the chapter with the visiting ladies and the Oshima reveal - not surprising that they both induced some more discussion…
Still on week 13; have to do some catching up. I actually started learning Chinese on a whim this week and now I just can’t stop! It’s taking a chunk of my reading time for Japanese but it’s quite refreshing (Du Chinese reading app is addicting). Makes me appreciate all the progress made when I switch back to Japanese .
Here is chapter 18! We’re slowly ramping up our reading speed again, with 2 chapters again.
Next week brings us 61 pages again so feel free to read a little bit ahead this week if you think that might help you.
The audiobook for this has just been released on audible! Not listened yet but will be a nice accompaniment for the rest of the book (it’s included in Amazon.jp kindle unlimited, not sure how much it is outside of that)
Links: 上 下
I just tried to sign up for audible Japan but it was impossible because I don’t own a credit card with a Japanese address, and the Internet™ said that those are difficult to get by, so I went with audiobooks.jp instead
How did you do the signup, just out of curiosity?
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Here is the thread for our penultimate week:
Let’s continue on August 20th, then!
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