Next week is up!
This is the longest week we have in the club, but at the same time we are almost at the end.
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Penultimate week is here! Still on the long side, but not as much as last week.
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And here we go! Last week of the club!
Personally, while I did enjoy the book well enough, I don’t think I will continue with this series. 
I have way too many things to read anyway.
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I will continue with the series as the audiobooks are easy enough to follow and actually interesting enough to keep my attention… but it will be a long-term thing… lots of other stuff I want to read/listen to. 
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Oh, true! I don’t want to spend money on this series, but that would be something to do with my audible 聴き放題!
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I bought the first 3 for something like ¥100 each so I’ll eventually read at least that far. It’s still a bit of a stretch for me even when reading with the audiobook so it’s gonna sit in my Some Day™ pile for a bit though, I think. I definitely enjoyed it enough to keep going, but not quite yet. 
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I also bought the first 3 on sale so I’ll read at least that far. Not immediately though. 
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I’m in this same camp. I liked the first one well enough, but I’m not in a rush to read the next.
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I have only two, but I like it well enough to consider continuing (with mixed feelings…)
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I fell off the bandwagon halfway through and still haven’t caught up. I‘m considering continuing after this first volume because I did enjoy it (little bit mixed feelings too) and the audio books are good. But probably not with any structured schedule.
Thanks a lot @Naphthalene for hosting the book club!
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On a somewhat unrelated note, I just came back from a work related trip to Kyoto. It felt really weird to pass some of the places mentioned in the book in real life (specifically, the shopping street where 蔵 is supposed to be, 百万遍, and the Kyoto university campus)
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Omg that’s so cool! I just looked up a ryokan I stayed in like 10 years ago on Google Maps the other day, and noticed it was very close to 鴨川 and moderately close to where 蔵 is described to be, and I wondered how it would be to go there now that I have some connection to the place.
Also, what do you do for work that you get to do work-related trips to Kyoto? 
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I think it’s less related to my work specifically, and more related to the fact I am based in Tokyo. It was just a one day trip; I spent most of my time in transit
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Hahaha that does it. I’m sorry, I forgot about that fact 
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