Non-Fiction Book Club: なぜ働いていると本が読めなくなるのか (starts May 25th)

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Welcome to the home and probably only thread for:

which the Natively Non-Fiction Book Club is reading.

Please note:

Due to the nature of this book I don’t believe spoiler alerts are necessary, but still make sure to write where you are when you discuss things since you want to give context for people to know what you’re talking about and where to look for it.

Schedule

Week Start date Chapter Pages Page count
1 May 25th まえがき and 序章 14-32 19
2 June 1st 1 33-53 21
3 June 8th 2 54-81 28
4 June 15th 3 82-101 20
5 June 22nd 4 102-119 18
6 June 29th 5 120-141 22
7 July 6th 6 142-162 21
8 July 13th 7 163-184 22
9 July 20th 8 185-209 25
10 July 27th 9 210-237 28
11 Aug 3rd 最終章 and あとがき 238-275 38

Membership

Will you be reading with us?
  • Yes
  • Yes, but I might start late
  • Maybe
  • No
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Unless there are a lot of people reading along, I plan to keep the whole read-through in a single thread, rather than one thread per week: it’s much less effort to manage that way, and avoids sad little threads with just one or two comments.

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I’m very excited, this has been on my TBR list for a while!

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So, what pace do we want to read this at? This is a Natively L35 book with 275 pages. It has a まえがき, a 序章, nine main chapters which are typically 20 to 30 pages long with three subsections each, a 最終章 and an あとがき. So it should be easy to find breakpoints that fit our chosen pace.

Please select all the speeds that you would be happy reading at:

  • Slower than 10-15 pages a week
  • One chapter every two weeks (10-15 pages, likely 20-22 weeks total)
  • One chapter a week (20-30 pages, total 11 weeks)
  • More than one chapter a week (up to 40 pages a week)
  • Two chapters a week (50+ pages a week)
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I think the consensus on that is “one chapter a week”. I generally favour going a bit slower if that helps to increase the set of people who participate, but @shablul was the only person voting for one chapter every two weeks, and nobody else said they were OK with a pace that slow. Looking at the exact page counts for the chapters, they’re almost all much closer to 20 pages than 30, at least.

The “one chapter a week” schedule would be:

Week Chapter Pages Page count
1 まえがき and 序章 14-32 19
2 1 33-53 21
3 2 54-81 28
4 3 82-101 20
5 4 102-119 18
6 5 120-141 22
7 6 142-162 21
8 7 163-184 22
9 8 185-209 25
10 9 210-237 28
11 最終章 and あとがき 238-275 38

The last week is long, but it’s the last week. (The actual final chapter is 29 pages, and the あとがき is 8 pages.)

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