Alo posted a list a bit further up in this thread: Most recent Japanese word you've learned? - #5122 by alo which I am sure we can reuse, so if you could just check and write up any words that aren’t in that list yet, that would be ideal.
Should we just use a Google vocab spreadsheet like in the other book clubs? That might be the easiest because everybody can contribute. Could you maybe set that up and post the link here if you got the time? I think there is a template in the book club tips thread, or you can just roll your own of course. Thank you!
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I don’t think there will be so much dialect that we need a spreadsheet. This is the advanced book club after all.
Alo’s post has most of what I noted, but I’ll get a full list together once I finish the section.
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@NicoleIsEnough @seanblue yay I contributed in some way.
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Aaaaand here is our first week!
Just to make sure everybody realizes, I am posting this thread a tad early to help mitigate @seanblue ’s timing issues. The book club starts officially on Saturday!
Please don’t feel pressured to start reading just yet but of course you can, now that the thread is there already
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Week 1
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Start Date: Aug 27
Next Part: Week 2
Reading:
Week
Start Date
Chapter
Start Page
Page Count
Week 1
Aug 27
序幕 + Chapter 1 Start (until 小麦取引にこれ以上心強い味方もいないだろう。)
11
~28
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Welcome to the second week! Let’s finish off Chapter 1 this time:
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Week 2
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Start Date: Sep 03
Previous Part: Week 1
Next Part: Week 3
Reading:
Week
Start Date
Chapter
Start Page
Page Count
Week 2
Sep 03
Chapter 1 End
43
28
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Sorry for the slight delay! Here is week 3:
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Week 3
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Start Date: Sep 10
Previous Part: Week 2
Next Part: Week 4
Reading:
Week
Start Date
Chapter
Start Page
Page Count
Week 3
Sep 10
Chapter 2
71
34
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Welcome to week 4! We’re reading the first half of chapter 3, so please make sure to stop at the breakpoint
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Week 4
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Start Date: Sep 17
Previous Part: Week 3
Next Part: Week 5
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Start Date
Chapter
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Page Count
Week 4
Sep 17
Chapter 3 Start (until そんな中のうちの一人に、予想どおり件のゼーレンの姿があったのだった。)
105
34
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Is it true? We’re in week 5 already!
This week we’re finishing off chapter 3.
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Week 5
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Start Date: Sep 24
Previous Part: Week 4
Next Part: Week 6
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Chapter
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Week 5
Sep 24
Chapter 3 End
139
34
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On to week 6, which brings us the first half of chapter 4:
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Week 6
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Start Date: Oct 01
Previous Part: Week 5
Next Part: Week 7
Reading:
Week
Start Date
Chapter
Start Page
Page Count
Week 6
Oct 01
Chapter 4 Start (until 大声で店主に桶を持ってくるようにと叫んたのだった。)
173
24
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I think I’m past the point of no return on this book… I barely started week 4’s content, so there’s no way I’m catching up at this point… It’s a shame, because I enjoyed the first two chapters. But I’m just not feeling it right now for some reason. Guess I’ll do what I did with 薬屋のひとりごと and come back to this when the interest strikes.
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Here is week 7, which brings us the end of chapter 4:
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Week 7
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Start Date: Oct 08
Previous Part: Week 6
Next Part: Week 8
Reading:
Week
Start Date
Chapter
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Page Count
Week 7
Oct 08
Chapter 4 End
197
36
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We’re on the penultimate week already (wohoo!) in which we will read a full chapter for a change:
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Week 8
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Start Date: Oct 15
Previous Part: Week 7
Next Part: Week 9
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Chapter
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Week 8
Oct 15
Chapter 5
233
42
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And finally here it is: Our last week:
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Week 9
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Start Date: Oct 22
Previous Part: Week 8
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Week 9
Oct 22
Chapter 6 + 終幕 + あとがき
275
34 + 18 + 2 = 54
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Satisfaction Poll Time!
Have you read Spice and Wolf?
I finished it
I’m still reading and I plan on finishing it
I don’t plan to finish it
I never even started it
If you read the book, how would you rate it on a 5 point scale? (1: hated it, 5: loved it)
1
2
3
4
5
Unsure / Didn’t finish
If you read the book, how would you rate its difficulty?
No effort at all
Minimal effort
Moderate effort
Significant effort
So much effort my head might explode
I don’t know
Participation Statistics
At first, we had quite the number of readers given this is an Advanced Club book, but after week 3 (where some of the economy topics come up for the first time) we see a steep decline, and from then on the number of readers keeps falling slowly until the very end.
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The first 20 volumes are available to rent through Kindle Unlimited right now!
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If only I could actually read these quickly
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Once you rent them they are in your library until you return them.
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You have a max of 20 books at any time, so my library for Kindle Unlimited is just this series haha.
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For 29 yen I got the book. (returned it months ago). Only read the prologue so far but it’s the first book in a long time I read and felt like I could visualize what was happening. Definitely going to continue reading! I’ll get to the first week and write my thoughts there.
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