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This is the home page for the first Korean in Translation book club.

Here Korean In Translation Club | Reading Almond / 아몬드 / アーモンド we picked

Almond - Sohn Won-Pyung
:kr: 아몬드 | L26 ,
:jp: アーモンド | L30??
:es: Amazon link (tbc on Natively link)

There’s also at least French, Italian, Catalan versions too (probably other languages too).

Start Date 1st June

Section 1 - Week 1 - 3
🌰 Almond / 아몬드 / アーモンド - Section 1 .

Section 2
🌰 Almond / 아몬드 / アーモンド - Section 2 .

Section 3
🌰 Almond / 아몬드 / アーモンド - Section 3 .

Section 4
🌰 Almond / 아몬드 / アーモンド - Final Section 4 .

Week Start Date Chapters Pages
1 1st June 1 - 4 18
2 8th June 5 - 12 19
3 15th June 13 - 18 20
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
9 27th July 49 - 55 23
10 3rd August 56 - 62 23
11 10th August 63 - 70 23
12 17th August 63 - End 23
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Tentatively, I am thinking maybe we could start June 1st?

  • Would be happy to start earlier than 1st June
  • 1st June is perfect
  • Would be happy to start later than 1st June
  • I don’t mind!
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I’ll have to wait for my copy to arrive before I can see the breaks in the book.

I also don’t mind too much whether we have set weeks
(e.g. week 1 pages 1-N, …)
or whether we have more informal style where people can comment on sections
(e.g. in section 8 random spoiler )

  • I prefer week structure - more people can read together
  • I prefer informal style -it’s easier to keep my own pace
  • I don’t mind, I like both!
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If anyone gets a copy before me, do let me know if there’s sensible splits in the book.

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I will listen to this in English. It sounds interesting. :eyes: (The translation is supposedly good, so fingers crossed.)
but my hold will take a while to come in, so I’ll join whenever that is ready. At 5 hours, that’s a 1 day listen at most. :face_in_clouds:

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I have already read this book so I won’t be joining in, but enjoy everyone! :slightly_smiling_face:

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I might also read it in English… It’d be too advanced in French and my Japanese backlog is waaaay too long right now, but I am interested in the story. Is that cheating? :sweat_smile:

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Well, technically, I am not a native English speaker, so… :rofl:

Edit: not me making an grammar mistake… quod erat demonstrandum :rofl:

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(I did know that, but), if I can’t tell on the internet you don’t get to pull that :rofl:

I did also find the French version, but there doesn’t appear to be an audiobook… I suppose I could try to tts it and then just cry a lot…

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Of course, the more the merrier from my point of view!

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I already read this so I won’t participate BUT I’ll be interested in reading everyone’s thoughts! Maybe one day I’ll be at the level to read it in Spanish lol…

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I’m just about to order it, so I’ll participate. No idea when it’ll get there however, but at least it’ll be relatively cheap.

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My copy has arrived :partying_face:

High level split (based on Japanese tankobon version)

Prologue + Section 1 9-66 (57 pages)

Section 2 67-172 (105 pages)

Section 3 173-218 (45 pages)

Section 4 219-254 (35 pages)

Epilogue + Afterwords 254-276 (22 pages)

Each of these sections are split into chapters, where there’s a chapter every 3 pages or so, so it should be easy to subdivide these too.

Since there’s a split vote between reading weekly/informal style,

I was maybe going to suggest we have
5 threads (1 for each section above), but have a rough weekly schedule.

That way people can happily be ahead/behind and post in each thread, but also gives some structure to reading along weekly.

Is roughly 20-25 pages per week an OK pace to try?

Happy to try slower or faster if anyone has any preferences.

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OK, I’ve had a look through, and put a tentative schedule up in the title page.

Prologue + Section 1
Weeks 1 - 3

Section 2
Weeks 4 - 8

Section 3
Weeks 9 - 10

Section 4 + Epilogue + Afterwords
Weeks 11 - 12

If we wanted to increase the rate, we could also split section 2 into 4 weeks rather than 5. I’m OK with either.

This is also just a guideline - if anyone wants to read ahead, or read behind, that is completely fine too!

I will create a Section 1 thread now, with week 1 starting 1st June.
If anyone reads ahead, just let me know and I can create later threads as we need.

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Not sure if anyone was waiting on this news, but a German translation of Almond seems to be slated to release October 15 this year.

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