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Are you planning to read 不機嫌な果実 with the book club?
The book has about 350 pages which are split up in 8 chapters (I don’t know how long the respective chapters are, though.) I was wondering whether we should keep the discussion in this one thread, or set up one thread per chapter?
Fwiw I’ll be listening to the audiobook but I selected ebook since I own it (not sure I’ll use it the whole way through though, this seems like it might be a good out-for-walks book)
Great! I hope you‘ll enjoy the ride. If you have any questions (regarding the club or the book, be it language or contents), or if you have comments or speculations you’d like to share, this is the place!
Regarding the discussion poll, we will have all discussions in this thread, as everybody agreed on.
BTW currently the book has a small coin cashback discount on BookWalker (25% or something) which is not too much but better than nothing, I guess.
Personally, I prefer the informal ones like this as you can just read at your own pace and fit it into your own schedule as you have time - or continue reading if something is particularly interesting. Yet, you still have reading buddies that you can share your thoughts or discuss stuff with.
omg. this is slightly very embarassing. I already own the book for this club. My brain got confused. In my defense, I just woke up? I will now go stand in a corner.
Got the book today (the sale was a bit meh but I‘m not convinced there will be a better one in the next few weeks as Golden Week Sale is a bit unreliable at times) and can now report on the chapter lengths.
With the exception of chapter 4 (~55 pages) and chapter 8 (~65 pages) all chapters are 30-45 pages long. There appear to be more breaks in the chapters but for me the granularity of the chapters sounds good enough for our discussions.
If y‘all think we should break up the chapters into sections for more fine-grained discussions, please speak up Otherwise we’ll discuss at the chapter level.
As I already finished 蛇にピアス (and making good progress with the latest Saikawa&Moe volume), and because an (offline) friend of mine is also interested in reading this book (in read-aloud fashion together with me), I’m planning to start a bit earlier than scheduled, probably already on Thursday (May 9th). But I don’t know how fast we can progress together (due to time restrictions on both ends), and so I’m sure y’all will catch up on me easily.
I read the first chapter on the plane but was having trouble focusing so I’m sure I missed some of the finer details, especially towards the end of the chapter. Overall my thoughts thus far:
she’s talking like she’s so old but she’s barely different than me in age and I certainly don’t feel that old also her view of men is… Interesting. She will be a fun character, but I wouldn’t like her in real life. Her entire interest in men, that we’ve seen thus far, is as vehicles for social elevation. I did love her plans to dally with the man she passed over being spoiler by him being engaged to a hot young thang
I look forward to her eventual affair. What if she catches feels?!
Also @bungakushoujo I think you’d dig this. Feel free to unblur my spoilers, it’s not major. But I sense Terrible People Doing Terrible Things
I hope you‘ll enjoy the ride. If you have any questions (regarding the club or the book, be it language or contents), or if you have comments or speculations you’d like to share, this is the place!
I will now go stand in a corner.
also her view of men is… Interesting. She will be a fun character, but I wouldn’t like her in real life. Her entire interest in men, that we’ve seen thus far, is as vehicles for social elevation. I did love her plans to dally with the man she passed over being spoiler by him being engaged to a hot young thang 
