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bibliothecary · December 3, 2023, 6:44pm

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Book Info

Summary - Japanese

駄菓子屋があった。路地の壁にはりつくような形の店で、まるで商店街から身をかくしているようだ。だが、店先には、色とりどりの菓子がならんでいるのが見える。真由美は首をかしげた。あんなところに、駄菓子屋さんなんてあったっけ？この道は、もう何百回と通っているけど、あんな店、見たことない…。その駄菓子屋は幸せと不幸のわかれ道。

Summary - Korean

골목 후미진 곳에 위치한 낡은 과자 가게 [전천당]. 우연히 가게를 발견한 사람들은 무엇에 홀린 듯 이곳에 빠져든다. [전천당]에는 기상천외하거나 섬뜩한 분위기를 풍기는 이상한 과자들이 진열되어 있다. [고양이 눈깔사탕], [뼈다귀 캔디], [요괴 껌], [저주 인형 쿠키] 등 이름도 색다르다. 사람들을 사로잡는 이 이상한 과자들은 기묘한 힘을 갖고 있어 손님들의 고민을 해결해 준다는데……. 과연 [전천당]의 손님들은 고민을 해결하고 행운을 얻었을까? 과자를 먹고 행운과 불행의 갈림길에 놓인 사람들의 운명, 그 결말은?!

Summary - English

There was a candy shop. The shop seems to be hidden from the shopping street, as if it is clinging to the wall of an alleyway. However, a colourful array of sweets can be seen in front of the shop. Mayumi tilted her head. Was there ever a candy shop there? I’ve been down this road hundreds of times, but I’ve never seen a shop like that… That candy shop was the dividing line between happiness and unhappiness. (DeepL.)

Reading Schedule

Week	Start Date	Ch.	End page	No. of pages	Digital (epub/ BW)	Audio- book	Notes	End page	No. of pages	Notes
Week 1	22 Jan	1	14	9	4.22% 8%	9:05	line ending: …おのぞみで？」	12	6	line ending: …어떤 고민을 해결하고 싶으시죠?”
Week 2	29 Jan	1	23	9	11.63% 15%	20:33	line ending: …どうしたらいいんだろう？」	19	7	line ending: …정말로 그렇게 돼 버리면 어떡해야 할까?
Week 3	5 Feb	1	31	8	16.45% 20%	29:36	end of chapter	26	7	end of chapter
Week 4	12 Feb	2	41	10	23% ?	39:20	line ending: …中身はどんあのなんだろう？	35	9	line ending: …알맹이는 어떨까?’
Week 5	19 Feb	2	52	11			end of chapter	45	10	end of chapter
Week 6	26 Feb	3	62	10			line ending: …と留守電が入ってくる	55	10	line ending: …기분 나쁜 목소리가 들렸다
Week 7	4 Mar	3	72	10			end of chapter	63	8	end of chapter
Week 8	11 Mar	4	83	11			line ending: …なにかとさぐりを入れ始めたのだ。	74	11	line ending: 게이지가 뭔가 감추는 게 있다는 걸 느꼈는지 자꾸 캐내려고 했다.
Week 9	18 Mar	4	94	11			end of chapter	84	10	end of chapter
Week 10	25 Mar	5	106	12			line ending: 大繁盛だ。	95	11	line ending: 대성황이었다.
Week 11	1 Apr	5	117	11			end of chapter	106	11	end of chapter
Week 12	8 Apr	6	127	10			line ending: …とりだした。	115	9	line ending: …빨간 눈깔사탕 같은 것을 한 알 꺼냈다.
Week 13	15 Apr	6	137	10			line ending: …くるりと女の人がふりむいた。	123	8	line ending: …여자가 빙그르 몸을 돌렸다.
Week 14	22 Apr	6+7	149	10			end of chapter	132	9	end of chapter

page numbers from physical book; digital percentages are approximate (BW=Bookwalker)
page numbers from Google Play ebook

Discussion Guidelines

Spoilers should always be hidden using spoiler blur.
When discussing a specific section, please mention where you are in the book, ideally by chapter so people reading different versions have a clear point of reference.
Feel free to read ahead if it’s exciting, but please refrain from spoiling ahead of the appropriate week.
If you have a question about grammar, vocab, cultural things, etc - ask! That’s a welcome part of the discussion too, and other readers will be happy to help.

Resources

Wanikani Book Club
Wanikani Vocabulary List
JPDB Vocabulary List

Polls

Will you be reading along with us?

Yes!
Maybe…
No, just here for the discussion

0 voters

Which language will you be reading in?

Japanese
Korean
Both!

0 voters

Which version(s) will you be reading?

Physical book
Ebook
Audiobook

0 voters

bibliothecary · December 3, 2023, 7:42pm

Reading Pace

The book has 150 pages, so here are estimates of the time it will take to read depending on how many pages we read per week:

Pages per week	Number of weeks
<10	15+
10	15
15	10
20	8
21+	<8

How many pages per week would you feel comfortable reading?

Fewer than 10
10
15
20
More than 20

0 voters

Start Date

When would you like to start reading?

late December
early January
late January
early February
late February

0 voters

bibliothecary · December 18, 2023, 9:52pm

The poll results show that most people want to start at the end of January and read 10 pages a week, so I’ve updated the reading schedule accordingly.

I’ve matched the Japanese and Korean finishing lines, so we’ll finish at the same point in the story; Japanese readers will finish the page every week, while Korean readers will stop mid-page.

If anyone has access to other editions - particularly the Japanese ebook - feel free to leave the page/percentage details so I can add it to the table.

mitrac · December 19, 2023, 9:33am

Thanks so much for organising! It looks like I joined just in time

Did anyone see this guide book to the series?

It has a map of the shop and an overview of the sweets in each chapter (so potential spoilers, if you want to avoid that don’t open the sample!). I’m kind of torn between “this could be a fun support to make the reading easier” and “will I be disappointed if there are massive spoilers?”

bibliothecary · December 19, 2023, 4:58pm

Ooo, this looks interesting! I especially love the cute floorplan… I may have to get this as a supplement to the main reading.

mitrac · December 20, 2023, 8:54am

yes! That’s what’s getting me, too. I think I’ll just get it and find out after Chapter one whether the overview is really much of a spoiler and then decide based on that whether to read those before or after each chapter. .

shitsurei · December 20, 2023, 8:01pm

Oh let us know.
Based on some reviews I’ve seen of the series (and my language goals for the next year) I’m mostly reading this for listening practice and don’t plan to read the rest of them, so this might be a really great thing to have but it might be totally silly to get it

mitrac · December 22, 2023, 11:57am

Will do! (I’m ordering paper though, so will be a while)

bibliothecary · January 6, 2024, 8:57pm

Just a reminder that we’ll be starting in a couple of weeks - there’s still time to get your hands on a copy if you want to join!

CatDQ · January 6, 2024, 10:12pm

Already got mine ready for when we’re due to start reading

mitrac · January 13, 2024, 10:46am

Does anyone know if you can get the anime in Europe? I couldn’t find it on Crunchyroll or any youtube links, they all turned out to be invalid here. Where else do you get anime? I’m a total noob at anime, it’s not really something I’ve gotten into, but thought it might be fun to watch after each chapter. Thanks!

CatDQ · January 14, 2024, 9:56am

I just found it on a site - aniwatch

It appears yo be short episodes in Japanese with English subs but not sure if you can watch them all. I’ve never used the site before but it let me start watching without logging in. The tune is kinda catchy

mitrac · January 14, 2024, 2:48pm

I’ll have a look, thanks! I saw some people on here are listening to the audiobooks and that was also recommended to me on another thread, so I got that!

freddyg · January 17, 2024, 2:14am

I’ll take a look at this soon!

freddyg · January 17, 2024, 2:19am

Joining this club as I’m already reading this on the Kindle.

Jintor · January 21, 2024, 10:17pm

As it’s the 22nd here, I’ve begun reading.

It would be useful for the ‘read up to’ sections to have an approximate percentage for e-book readers I think. I believe section one ends at the 4.24% mark in Japanese. (I think percentage based should be roughly equivalent for all digital versions in whatever format?)

bibliothecary · January 22, 2024, 2:33am

@Jintor The digital info wasn’t included because I didn’t have access to it; if you (or anyone else) want to look up the weekly %s, I can update the reading schedule to include them.

shitsurei · January 22, 2024, 4:39am

I will also be reading probably ahead of the book club and can also give percentages if we’re missing them.

bibliothecary · January 28, 2024, 6:07pm

freddyg · January 29, 2024, 3:43am

I have finished the first volume.

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