Sorry about the late answer about the previous question. I am a complete beginner and although I struggled a lot in chapter one, my reading speed has increased a lot in chapter two. There are still many words I don’t know but somehow it seems easier to grasp the meaning of the sentences.
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Thank you. I did it.
I’m sorry to hear you are not enjoying it. On my side, I am really enjoying the book. But maybe it’s because of my Japanese not being very good, just being able to understand it makes me happy.
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That’s exactly how I felt for my first couple books! Even when I was disappointed in the story, just being able to read was a great feeling.
Now that I’m at more of an intermediate level I just want to read stuff similar to what I read in English. Even though those tend to be really hard. 
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Maybe try chapter 3 and see if it gets better for you like it did for me - and if not, no shame quitting. Reading is supposed to be fun after all. ^^
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Yep I’ll definitely give the third chapter a shot. Thanks!
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I did not even know it started already :o but im new… I will try to catch up!
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would be so sad to lose you … because your help with answering questions is very much appreciated 
Such excellent planning from the bookclub folks…I’m gussing… she’s gonna meet まことさん 
:and we will have a whole crossover series! 楽しみ！
Would hate to see you give up on this one, but if you aren’t into it, don’t bother … no sense in pushing through all this hard to parse hiragana for something you aren’t enjoying…
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Oh, I’m very good at stalking the forums, so I’m sure I’d still help out a bit even if I stopped reading. (It would just be harder without the context.) But I’m still going for now. I read 9 pages of chapter three earlier, just with minimal dictionary use to move things along faster. I’ll try to read the rest of chapter three this week and see how I feel then.
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Totally unrelated but leebo just reset from 60 to 1, and my understanding that it is not the first time.
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I noticed that even 入る was written in kana in this book, so I went to check something. The back of this book says 小学中級. For comparison, 時をかける少女 says 小学上級. So I think that pretty clearly explains why even less kanji is used compared to 時をかける少女.
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That’s very interesting, because 入 is a grade 1 kanji already, so should clearly be known in Grade 3-4. But then again, I noticed that even in the “normal” novels that are geared towards adults sometimes words would randomly be written in kana (and also inconsistently) so I’m not sure whether the authors / publishers put so much thought into this or whether it just somehow happens…
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this is why you buy lifetime 
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IME misconversions probably even happen to professionals.
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I am still convinced I found a misconversion of 呼んだ to 読んだ in 狼と香辛料, which really surprised me because it seems like something you wouldn’t miss during proofreading?
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Okay, a similar number have voted to our readership.
Looks like we’re going to try having a one-week break at the end of chapter two. A good eight people think it could help them keep up and most of those on track don’t mind. Feels like a useful experiment to run too.
Sorry to @Naphthalene, @elisac and @kozz84 D:
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For the Read-Aloud session, my suggestion is that we still run it during the break. We can ask and answer questions, and if people are interested, we can re-read the last section (for those who just caught up during the break, and for general reading practice).
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Great idea 
I’m thinking there should still be plenty of questions and discussion that week.
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Given the choice, I would have preferred to carry on (hence my vote), but I do not actually mind
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The same here 
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