I’ve been lurking so far, but! I managed to read 11 / 13 days in April so far.
@NicoleIsEnough programmed this beautiful Excel heatmap for me to track my pages read each day:
I finished the titular short story from 海の見える理髪店 today, which I’ve been wanting to read for a while now (to get an entry for the Naoki Prize Reading Challenge, and because I found a 朗読 by Saitō Sōma of the first 30 pages on YouTube, so I “read” the first half of the story along with the audio, and then read the remaining 20 pages today.
It was a rather relaxing story, which was to be expected, but I know there was something more there. Something implied, a deeper connection between the two characters. But this wasn’t really made explicit, even though I felt it would have made for a nice twist at the end. This way, I’m left speculating and interpreting by myself, which is a rather odd feeling.
On to the second story, いつか来た道! (there’s six in total)