霧のむこうのふしぎな町 ・ Mysterious Town Beyond the Mist (BBC) 🌬 🏘

This was equally unsuccessful for Natsume ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think it will just always be the case that at some point people will decide it’s not worth continuing with the book. This is around when I’d expect to see a second drop in numbers. I wasn’t expecting the break to increase the number of people, but I thought it might help some of those who were behind at least to keep up if not catch up (while also perhaps giving current readers on the cusp some breathing space).

It’s always hard to know what to do when we have a more difficult pick :confused: I’m impressed with the tenacity of people in this club though ^^

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I sometimes procrastinate a bit, but I will usually catch up right when the new chapter starts or maybe 1-2 days later.

I think slowing down would probably be better than taking an actual break, since I guess it encourages people to read along and catch up to the other people (don’t know if that’s actually true, that’s just how I think about it).

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I’m happy the beginner book club is reading an actual book instead of manga. I get the feeling that most of the book clubs are manga, and there’s a lot of vocabulary that gets ignored, and, well, it’s a different reading experience all together…

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The beginner book club reads mostly manga. The intermediate book club has only ever read books. The absolute beginner book club reads a bit of both.

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I like the mix :wink: brings some variety to things …

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I hadn’t voted yet because I was away for the weekend visiting some friends, but I have now. ごめん :bowing_woman:

EDIT: I was talking about week 7 and I now saw you were talking about week 6, I had voted in that one.

For me, the extra week didn’t help me catch up in the end because I was doing a lot of teaching in the afternoons and had a bday party on the weekend and I was useless the next day. I guess not reading when you’re tired is a form of procrastination though.
However, last week I read the whole chapter 2 (two weeks worth of reading) and I’m currently only 1 week behind. I would really like to participate more in the discussions, so I’m going to push it this week and see if I can finally catch you!

Also, massive thanks to the people populating the vocab sheet :sparkling_heart:

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Yes, we just started week 7, so I didn’t expect everyone to have voted yet :wink: People vote basically any time during the week.

There’s also a slow trickle of additional votes beyond the time frame of the thread being active from people who were much further behind or started later, which is why I also updated the other weeks, if anyone is wondering.

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I just finished chapter 6. It’s still been consistently a lot more interesting, so I’ve been enjoying reading it.

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Hello! Here is an attempt to find a better time for weekly Read Aloud session on discord, so unless you’re interested in that, I encourage you to skip the rest of the post.

The current time is midnight in Japanese timezone, which is definitely not the best for about half of the group. Those who are interested in keeping up with reading aloud, let’s re-vote, maybe better compromise can be found.

I’ve used timestamp formatting to show the time in you local timezone, so please ignore the particular date. The poll is for regular weekly session, to be running till the book is done, which is mid April.
Consider proposed times as the first rough draft, we can refine them later, moving half an hour or an hour in any direction.

  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 1:00 AM
  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 3:00 AM
  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 5:00 AM
  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 7:00 AM
  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 9:00 AM
  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00 AM
  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 1:00 PM
  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 3:00 PM
  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 5:00 PM
  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 7:00 PM
  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 9:00 PM
  • Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00 PM
  • Sunday, February 9, 2020 1:00 AM
  • Sunday, February 9, 2020 3:00 AM
  • Sunday, February 9, 2020 5:00 AM
  • Sunday, February 9, 2020 7:00 AM
  • Sunday, February 9, 2020 9:00 AM
  • Sunday, February 9, 2020 11:00 AM
  • Sunday, February 9, 2020 1:00 PM
  • Sunday, February 9, 2020 3:00 PM - we read at this time now

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If I missed a good time, or messed up something else, please let me know asap. And thanks for the promptly voting! I’ll check results in two days, around 2020-02-06T03:00:00Z, to see if the second poll will be needed.

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That’s really motivating to know, thank you!

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@shuly, @icenando, @Belerith, can you please vote here: 霧のむこうのふしぎな町 ・ Mysterious Town Beyond the Mist (BBC) 🌬 🏘 - #229 by sansarret

It is about trying to find better time for read aloud session.

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doesn’t make any difference to me…I’m so behind at this point…haven’t picked up the book in a week…work is beyond insane and thought the shower was fixed only to find a new leak…I think as of tonight I have finally fixed it…I f%$#@ hope so! so annoyed with the whole thing…

Pick a time that’s good for everyone else and if I join great but honestly I’ll end up so far behind anyway, probably won’t do me much good.

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There’s something about the regularity of the book clubs that has always helped me keep to the schedule/ motivated me to catch up after falling behind.

Please visit when you can and don’t worry about it when you can’t. :slight_smile:

@sansarret, I was going to abstain from voting because I’m not really part of the target audience and I think my vote should be secondary at best. But since you asked. :upside_down_face:

I voted in regards to my usual schedule, which is not my current schedule. I may or may not be able to join this coming weekend depending on where it falls (even for the times I voted on), but I’ll be able to for those times at least starting the week after.

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I think the break helped me personally, but I agree this is probably a better way to do it.

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@NicoleIsEnough, with regard to Read Aloud times, the poll confirmed that we do not have a slot that would work for more than 2 people :frowning: I’ll continue on discord, so not to pollute the thread.

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Thank you for organising @sansarret. It doesn’t matter much to me - my work hasn’t got fixed times, so unfortunately I might have to give it a miss every once in a while independently of the time.

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TBH I have no idea regarding my availability for the rest of the book as I will be traveling, volunteering, staying in hostels etc. So it does not make sense for me that you focus on my availability… If none of the other experienced readers like @Kyasurin , @Myria , @Belerith want to take the lead, you can still get together with the other „beginner“ readers and practice at the same time as before :slight_smile: Or, if interest is really dwindling, then maybe the session is bound to die… (which wouldn’t surprise me in the least, from my past experience, I‘m rather surprised how long it lasted!)

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With new vote added, let’s just keep the old time, and see who shows up.

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Starting chapter 4 this week:

By the end of this week, we’re actually about halfway through the book, page-wise.

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Aaaaand finishing chapter 4 this week!

By the end of this week we’ll be halfway chapter-wise as well as page-wise.

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