Week ４: お探し物は図書室まで 📚📖 (Intermediate Book Club)

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Week 4

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Week 4 Jun 21 2025
pages 45 - 62
kindle locations 439 - 614
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End phrase end of chapter 1
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Proper Nouns

Name Reading Notes chapter week
藤木 朋香 ふじき ともか the narrator 1 1
沙耶 さや Tomoka’s friend 1 1
エデン Tomoka’s workplace 1 1
沼内 ぬまうち Tomoka’s coworker 1 1
桐山 きりやま optician’s employee 1 1
上島 うえしま Tomoka’s boss 1 1
羽鳥区 はとりく Tomoka’s home ward 1 2
権野 ごんの computer lecturer 1 2
森永 のぞみ もりなが のぞみ librarian’s assistant 1 2
小町 さゆり こまち さゆり the librarian 1 2
ぐりとぐら children’s picture book 1 2
カステラ castella (japanese cake) 1 3

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We are reaching this week the final part of Tomoka’s story.

(Don’t expect a dramatic climax - the story ends as quietly as it began.)

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Now I have to try カステラ！I’ll be going to Tokyo next month, any recommendations on a パン屋さんor 喫茶店 where I can try it?!

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Well, that all got very cosy and heartwarming to finish off the first story. Young woman learns that older people know a thing or two, living in a dump eating junk food is not the best way to live life, and that there is a joy in failing to get something right first time and persisting until achieving success!

Most importantly she learned that eggs don’t belong in the fridge. That feels like a key life lesson for all of us.

I wonder if people are still so keen to try cooking castella now?!

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I finished the chapter almost a week ago and forgot to write about it.

I liked quite much, it made me think a bit about my own lifestyle :sweat_smile: At some point in the story I started worrying that Tomoka won’t continue with the Office courses, somehow I was invested in her decision to acquire new skills.

The role of Komachi-san is not yet clear to me, not like it is important. I mean that Tomoka’s conversations with Kiriyama and her coworker felt more important for triggering the self-reflexion.

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