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Almond / 아몬드 / アーモンド / Almendra
Rough guideline for reading:
| Week | Start Date | Chapters | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 22nd June | 19 - 24 | 21 |
| 5 | 29th June | 25 - 31 | 21 |
| 6 | 6th July | 32 - 37 | 23 |
| 7 | 13th July | 38 - 42 | 20 |
| 8 | 20th July | 43 - 48 | 21 |
Feel free to read at any pace!
But when commenting, please add spoiler tags by week, to allow for people reading at different paces.
I wrote this in section 1 before this post was up, so just putting it here as well, since this is the correct place for it. 
So, I am in chapter 23 and the teacher just made the whole class clap for MC, telling him to cheer up after he lost his family. 
I wonder if that happens IRL. 
Weeks 4 & 5 done, thoughts:
This book does jump around genres a lot.
New school life, running an old bookstore, bits of helping others in the hospital, and at of the end of this section, the new creepy/thuggish Goni on the scene.
I am enjoying it though, Almond is sweet in his own way.
The section where he was switching between talking about おばさん and おばあさん in chapter 29 did really confuse me. I wonder if in Korean those two sound/read almost identically.
@Biblio ,
Yeah you’d assume (hope) no adult would be that insensitive in real life.
But kids I am completely unsurprised. I’m sure the school gossip would be in overdrive.
Another big break - summer has really thrown out my reading habits.
But weeks 6 / 7 / 8 done (aka section 2 finished!)
There’s something bashfully innocent about Goni getting to know Almond. I think the author show’s his lack of ability to communicate except through anger/bravado etc.
That said, I can’t say I enjoyed the butterfly scene. Maybe I’m just too squeemish a reader.
I am also undecided how I feel about the Dr.'s thoughts that maybe Almond can get better. It’s maybe risking the plot becoming, Almond becomes ‘normal’ through friendship kinda plot. Although, I do think it’s a bit more nuanced than that (hence why I’m on the fence.
