Excellent, thanks! No worries on the chapter percentages; weāll have plenty of time to work that out.
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Very strange! I tried to rename chapter 8 out of curiosity but it didnāt work for me either 
Maybe Google thinks āChapter 8ā and āChapter 9ā are cursed terms?! 
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Itās a first for me that this has happened. Some kind of ghost chapters are haunting the vocab sheet. 
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I did indeed find the story interesting from what you told us, but I feel like you overestimate my ability to read. 
Not sure my first light novel/novel is gonna be something historical. That seems like a big difficulty spike. 
Otherwise I would love to read with you guys. 
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My main point was to keep you in the loop - and then you are of course free to decide what to do with that 
Regarding the difficulty of the book, I think that itās not super difficult, and there are really straightforward passages (mainly when āsomething happensā - I always find that easier to read) but it definitely has its tougher parts (if only because they contain more unusual vocabulary). The book also features a nice assortment of grammar. Having said all that, I think it wouldnāt be impossible for you! (Donāt underestimate your abilities - I found your åć£ć”ćć not exactly easy either ^^) But I know how frustrating it can be to slowly chew through such a text. So maybe get two or three other books under your belt, and then see you next year? 
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When Iāve gotten through some of my stack, Iām definitely all game for reading this. 
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I checked into it this morning, and it looks like there were previously-existing tabs called āChapter 8ā and āChapter 9ā already hanging around. They only showed up when I clicked the āAll Sheetsā button to the left of the sheet tabs. I went ahead and hopefully un-hid them, and since they already seemed to have some vocabulary in them, deleted the wonky Chapter Eight and Nine tabs.
I also see hidden tabs for a bunch of Extras and Chapters 10-15; what would you like to do about those?
edit: Iāve requested the book(s) on Natively as well!
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This is an interesting discovery. I did copy this from??? club originally. I think itās fine to just delete it all. Iāll take a look later tonight! 
Edit: it might have been from the Saezuru book club now that I had a look at it! XD
But the extras I donāt recognize at all. Lol. ^^ā
Edit 2: Okay I deleted the whole lot of it. I have no idea what those things were.
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This sounds interesting, but Iām intimated by the history stuff. I wonder if I would be able to manage it.
Can someone guess the approximate level of the first volume?
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Ah, nice! I requested them this morning as well 
(was a bit wary because of the BL stuff but as it turned out to be very light on that topic for at least the first volume, I thought why not)
I compared it (in my head) to a few other books Iāve read, and it might probably end up around level 32-33 or something?
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I figure a bookās a book, right? Natively doesnāt favor specific content, right?
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Well, they dis-favor some content though I did not follow their rules on this in detail (because Iām usually not interested in such books), but I think the only rule for now is āno full nudity on the coverā. Still, as I was not sure, I thought Iād rather be safe than sorry , thatās why I did not request it right from the start.
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Ah, interesting. I have to admit I didnāt thoroughly look over their rules before submitting. Should probably do that in the futureā¦ >.>
Well, the series is available at my local library soooo, Iāll read it at some point, I guess?
The schedule of borrowing books means I wonāt be able to follow any proper schedule, though (except if we read a volume in 4 weeks top 
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Yes, thatās the only rule. If thereās explicit content, you can write it in the comment section when requesting the book.
Iāve added a TL book (so, 18+) on Natively myself and confirmed the rules at the time.
Also, I feel like the cover of regular light novels aimed at men are regularly worse than most TL covers I have seen so farā¦
(which can be a problem in itself; I started reading that book because the cover was pretty and I didnāt know it was 18+ā¦)
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Sounds a bit tough, but might give it a try either way.
Can I ask questions on the first volume in here or will there be a separate topic? 
As far as I understood it everyone should read the volume 1 by themselves and then there might be a schedule for volume 2, right?
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Ah I re-checked the entry post and it stated discussion is fine. So I might do that then. Sorry for not checking properly!
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Great! Weāre all here to help. (I hope I remember all the answers I got when I read vol. 1, as I had quite a few questions as well )
When I started this, I did not know it would become so popular! I thought we might be maybe 3 people and would sort of give some updates every few weeks. But if there is more discussion than that (which would be great! please donāt get me wrong), I think it might be less confusing to have one thread per volume. I will set it up and link it in the OP. Iāve created a thread and linked it in the OP. Here it is as well: "Flesh&Blood" Vol. 1 - Pirate Series Reading Club š“āā āµ
I think there will be a group for vol. 1 starting from June? But of course you are free to read it whenever
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The historical stuff sounds like itāll be pretty hard but it sounds fun so I think Iāll join in 
I should have time to start in June as well, just need to figure out how to work a vpn.
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Alrighty, the book was added to Natively! (With an impressively crusty cover image, I might add.) I added a link to the OP here; would you mind adding it to the vol 1 discussion thread as well @NicoleIsEnough?
Also, apologies in advance when I totally forget thereās a separate thread and start posting thoughts/questions on volume 1 here. @.@
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Awesome that you made a separate thread for volume 1. Since we turned out to be a small group that is interested in trying reading it, it just makes more sense.
Iāve copied the vocab sheet also, to make a volume 2 one later! Just ping me for a link to it later this summer/autumn or when we get started on volume 2. 
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Just wait until the later volumes, I think from vol 3 onward, when they change the illustrator for the series. 
(I have the Drama CDs, so, thatās how I know)
Edit: the visuals of the series becomes stunning! <3 Really, second level stuff. I think they, after the series appeared to be able to keep on going and with the Drama CD releases, yeah, they got more funding for it.
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