🌰 Almond / μ•„λͺ¬λ“œ / をーヒンド - Section 2

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Welcome to Section 2 of Almond / μ•„λͺ¬λ“œ / をーヒンド

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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.

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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. :sweat_smile:

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. :scream:
I wonder if that happens IRL. :melting_face:

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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 γŠγ°γ•γ‚“ and γŠγ°γ‚γ•γ‚“ 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.

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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 β€˜normal’ through friendship kinda plot. Although, I do think it’s a bit more nuanced than that (hence why I’m on the fence.

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