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Week
Start Date
Chapter
Percentage
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Week 13
Apr 25
stop when you see chapter 14
80%
479
Week 14
May 2
stop at line break ending 再び汽笛が鳴った
86%
512
Week 15
May 9
stop at the end of the book, not including 解説
98%
584
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Finished the part. Not much to say for the week. It was okay.
The 梶井 POV written part in the middle felt a little out of place. Kinda like a refresher of what we learned in the last few weeks about her early life.
And it’s the first time we have proper cooking in the book. Before we started the book I heard the food descriptions are good, so I was a little disappointed that not much proper cooking was happening before. But now with them taking part in the cooking class we actually have some cooking in the book .
I didn’t look up all the ingredients, but I think I got the gist of what they were making.
I also really enjoyed the food talk in the previous weeks. I’m a hobbyist cook as well (basically cook myself every day) and especially love eating good food. So I followed your béchamel discussion closely
Yeah, same here. I also cook regularly since I’m a child and I learned basically the contrary of how to make Béchamel sauce from my mother and so far never had any clumps in it.
I personally love the cooking bits in the books as well!
Béchamel sauce is also one of the few things that I learned to cook from my mom. My mom’s recipe is: melt a good chunk of butter (<= mom recipes are nice and vague like that) in a saucepan, add about the same volume of flour and mix. Off the fire, add half a liter of milk little by little, mixing with a whisk. Put it back on the fire and heat gently while whisking so it doesn’t burn at the bottom, until it thickens. Add salt and a bit of nutmeg.
Then we’d mix it with a box’s worth (500g) of al dente pasta, transfer to an oven dish, top with a bit of grated cheese, and bake until golden for a very simple pasta bake.
Caught up to this week I feel like we finally got some plot development Kajii seems a bit less composed and put together based on this woman’s description. I wonder where Rika met her, since it keeps heavily implying they somehow have met before
Agreed that the Kajimana thoughts seemed out of place. I was expected to get a bit more out of suddenly showing her perspective, but I don’t feel like much was gained from it.
This cooking class sounds like my nightmare. I was always bad in group settings when we are doing some kind of set up and I needed to try to find jobs to do myself, I would have a hard time figuring out where and how I could help. When I did beginner cooking classes they would assign people to different roles which I prefer.
I’m face palming so hard at Rika saying she wants to make the dish Kajimana made for one of her victims. I had to close the book and cool down for a bit to be able to handle reading further.
I love that Kajimana’s “magic” has worn off on Rika. She is able to see through what she says, and instead of going along with her narrative now cuts in to change the narrative.
It was nice to get more insight into Kajimana from the cooking class woman. We were able to find out more about what she is really like, and how she thinks instead of what she wants people to think of her as. It’s now revealed that she focuses her energy into men, rather than putting herself first like she told Rika.
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Kajii seems a bit less composed and put together based on this woman’s description. I wonder where Rika met her, since it keeps heavily implying they somehow have met before