I’m from Stockholm and would also say Nikoll, but I didn’t listen to the thing
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Hello fellow former Stockholmer! I’m also from there. Yeah, the Swedish guy who’d left the Swedish pronunciation said the cole part of Nicole like kål (vitkål, grönkål, etc.) (and I definitely heard some hint of dialect, but not enough to place it, not that I’m good at placing such things anyway). It sounded very weird to me. xD
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Damn you livin in a syndrome?
Anything that ends in L we pronounce as U unless there’s E. So that’s probably it
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What I read in the Autumn Challenge 2022
Ongoing:
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ユージニア (with the ABC) -
封印再度 - Who Inside (with the S&M book club) -
世界から猫が消えたなら (my new sauna book) -
おばちゃんがいるところ (with the IBC) -
糞尿譚 (started way earlier but couldn’t finish due to difficulty - maybe this time?) -
Attack on Titan 1 -
Albert Camus: L’Étranger
Paused:
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穴 (we discussed its difficulty in the Intermediate club and I got curious…) -
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (from 本屋大賞) -
雲をつかむ話 (read ch. 1 with the German-Italian Reading Circle, want to continue) -
ifの悲劇 (had this in my pile for sooo long already and started it but slightly lost interest in the meantime) -
聖お兄さん (started 100 years ago with the book club but never finished) -
カミュの異邦人 – When we read 人間失格 somebody mentioned the similarity of the two books, so I decided to give it a try (in French). Then Myria said she’d be interested in reading it as well, but in Japanese, so we will do a French-Japanese tandem 
Which means I will read it in French () and she will read it in Japanese, but I think I will also read each section in Japanese () afterwards to double-check my French understanding 
(curious to see which version I get more out of ^^) -
La Quête d’Ewilan: D’une monde à l’autre (maybe Belerith infected me with this book? 
Will see if I’ll read some of it on the side) -
大聖堂 (The Pillars of the Earth) (project with Japanese friend; but too hard for him; talked him out of it) - plus I need to clean up a few manga that I started but never finished
Lined up:
Nothing 
Still later:
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1Q84 Book 1.2 ? (postponed until January, with the 1Q84 book club) -
博多豚骨ラーメンズ Vol. 1 (had to take a quick peek already )
Finished:
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TUGUMI (with the Intermediate book club; finished Oct 8th) -
Flesh&Blood Vol. 5 (with the F&B club; finished Oct 22nd) -
Flesh&Blood Vol. 6 (with the F&B club; finished Oct 29th)
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人間椅子 (with the Halloween Book Club; finished Nov 4th) -
海辺のカフカ（下） (with the spin-off book club; finished Nov 10th) -
秋の牢獄 (with the repeat club; finished Nov 26th) -
Flesh&Blood Vol. 7 (with the F&B club; finished Dec 2nd)
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Flesh&Blood Vol. 8 (with the F&B club; finished Dec 9th)
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星の王子さま (The Little Prince) (sauna book; finished Dec 10th) -
Flesh&Blood Vol. 9 (with the F&B club; finished Dec 18th)
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Flesh&Blood Vol. 10 (with the F&B club; finished Dec 23rd)
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おいしいごはんが食べられますように (with the Compulsive Readers club; finished Dec 30th)
Abandoned:
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狼と香辛料 (Spice and Wolf) Vol. 1 (with the Advanced club)
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What I read in the Winter Challenge 2023
Ongoing:
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飼育 -
水たまりで息をする -
Flesh&Blood Bonus Material for Vol. 9 (with the F&B club)
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ユートロニカのこちら側 (with the Compulsive Readers club) -
1Q84 Book 1.2 (with the 1Q84 book club)
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世界から猫が消えたなら (my new sauna book)
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Albert Camus: L’Étranger
Paused:
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穴 (we discussed its difficulty in the Intermediate club and I got curious…)
-
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (from 本屋大賞)
-
雲をつかむ話 (read ch. 1 with the German-Italian Reading Circle, want to continue)
-
ifの悲劇 (had this in my pile for sooo long already and started it but slightly lost interest in the meantime)
-
聖お兄さん (started 100 years ago with the book club but never finished)
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カミュの異邦人 – When we read 人間失格 somebody mentioned the similarity of the two books, so I decided to give it a try (in French). Then Myria said she’d be interested in reading it as well, but in Japanese, so we will do a French-Japanese tandem Which means I will read it in French () and she will read it in Japanese, but I think I will also read each section in Japanese () afterwards to double-check my French understanding (curious to see which version I get more out of ^^)
-
La Quête d’Ewilan: D’une monde à l’autre (maybe Belerith infected me with this book? Will see if I’ll read some of it on the side)
-
大聖堂 (The Pillars of the Earth) (project with Japanese friend; but too hard for him; talked him out of it)
-
糞尿譚 (started way earlier but couldn’t finish due to difficulty - maybe this time?)
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Attack on Titan 1
- plus I need to clean up a few manga that I started but never finished
Lined up:
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Flesh&Blood Bonus Material for Vol. 10 - 11 (with the F&B club)
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Flesh&Blood Vol. 12 (with the F&B club, from end of Feb.)
Still later:
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博多豚骨ラーメンズ Vol. 1 (had to take a quick peek already )
Finished:
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チュベローズで待ってる AGE22 (with the Compulsive Readers club; finished Jan 13th) -
ユージニア (with the ABC; finished Jan 15th)
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チュベローズで待ってる AGE32 (with the Compulsive Readers club; finished Jan 25th) -
Flesh&Blood Vol. 11 (with the F&B club; finished Feb 3rd)
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Flesh&Blood Bonus Material for Vol. 6 (with the F&B club; finished Feb 10th)
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Flesh&Blood Bonus Material for Vol. 8 (with the F&B club; finished Feb 23rd)
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夢十夜 by 夏目蒼石 (for the literature circle)
Abandoned:
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封印再度 - Who Inside (with the S&M book club)
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半落ち (with the 半落ち club) -
おばちゃんがいるところ (with the IBC)
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この本を盗む者は (with the ABC)
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Did you decide to stop reading the series altogether? 
I thought I might find out more by catching up on the threads, but no dice. This is of course completely fine, I’m just surprised. ^^
Have you decided to take your reading into a different direction this year?
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Ah, I just hadn’t gotten around to announcing this in the threads (basically because I didn’t really know where and how… 
)
I haven’t actively abandoned the series, it’s just that I read the first chapter and it somehow felt so uninspiring to me and you know, ten kilometers of descriptions of Moe’s colorful clothes 
and then the long-winding descriptions of these objects… it just didn’t click with me, and so I decided after some weeks of internal debate that I should rather not read it now if I don’t really feel like it. I see that it seems to be interesting further down the line, and so I will probably come back at some point.
But no matter what, I will host the series anyways! 
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Apologies, deleted, posted in wrong thread!
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I was just about to comment on that 
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I haven’t done any long-term planning, no. There are still 14 volumes of Flesh&Blood that I’d like to read at some point, and then I have a gazillion other books and I would like to reduce the pile a bit. So the general strategy of reading well-written interesting books remains unchanged! Maybe I can even manage to fit in one or two Akutagawa prize winners, who knows.
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I thought I’d pull you in here because I don’t see a thread where this really fits. Please forgive me, and if you’re not interested please walk away silently, I won’t blame you!
I think the hostage book is a lost cause by now. I had somehow expected this to happen when I called upon the other clubs, and I’m of course fine with that because the club should read the book that the majority favors, not that I personally favor 
But I’m not planning to read a teenie romance, and I noticed you didn’t vote for it either. Sooo
Ha-ahem there is this sale on Bookwalker right now, and the books were already pretty cheap to start with, and so … erm … well … ahem … we could start whenever you feel like 
What do you think?
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Oh you meant it! 
(I sort of realized)
I’m interested (as if I wouldn’t be), but are you clear on what kind of book it’s going to be? Because I keep reading reviews and I’m still not sure.
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No, I’m not clear at all. You said the reviews say it’s not a romance and not a light novel, and that’s 90% already and that it’s dark, so I want to see what that means. (I might drop it if it gets too scary, though 
)
I usually don’t read reviews as much when I get a clear recommendation from somebody, and this guy was really determined about the book. Also, I think it should be read in the order Age22 → Age32 and the Age22 book is only 200 pages (not much more than the ご飯 book) so we could read that in a week or two and see whether we like it.
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What still worries me is the cover, and whether it’s targeted at younger audiences. But reviews like this (from Amazon) set my mind at ease, I think:
正直に言うと、あまり読みやすいとは言えない本でした。
なんだか硬くて、エンタメというより、純文学のような感じです。
就職に失敗した青年の人生を描いています。
読みにくいのに、読み終わると、妙に登場人物のことが気になりました。なんとも言えない後味です。
気楽に小説を読みたい人は避けたほうがよいと思います。
If I understand correctly, the mystery element appears in the second volume, and the first volume shouldn’t be judged on its own. It’s all a bit strange.
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What are the books you’re discussing? I think I saw them today when browsing Bookwalker but now can’t find the, again!
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Erm, the author is an idol, whatever that means…
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His biography sounds pretty impressive 
I guess it means that he’s cute and knows how to play that, and all the girls fall for him?
Let’s see…
Hmmm…
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Thanks, I’ve been shopping! Can’t guarantee to read at your pace but am interested to try!
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