香君 上 西から来た少女 Advanced Book Club : now reading!

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I do have a question. Did you read the character list and if so was it useful so far?

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No, I did not read the character list up until now (I am near the end of week 2 now). Firstly because I did not want to spoil myself, and secondly because I figured I might not remember the names anyway :sweat_smile:

Some spoiler-free details about how many characters appear etc

Right from the start, the reader gets pretty much flooded with various characters and their names, as I think is kinda typical for the author. I had a bit of a hard time with them, struggling my way through the first week, and then I slowly started to form a mental picture of the main characters. During week 2, this picture got much clearer, and for now I feel ok with most of the characters that appeared so far. Maybe later on I need to have a look at the character list or write my own list though…

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We start reading today! I’ve posted the week one discussion thread:

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Week 2 thread is now up:

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I’ve posted the week three thread a touch early, because I’m going to be busy most of tomorrow:

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Week 4 starts today: we cover chapters 2.2 and 2.3.

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The week 5 thread is up; this week we read chapters 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5. At 45 pages this is the longest week in the schedule.

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Week six is up, where we will read another three chapters (but not quite finish this volume yet):

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I’ve put the week seven thread up a little early as I will be busy tomorrow morning. This is the week when (if you’re reading the four volume edition) we finish the last part of book one and start on book two.