適当 from beginning to end, the whole thing
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Americans
I mean, it is possible she just doesn’t know how big the time difference is, adding to her sloppiness (or absurdity, or whatever other 適当 meaning there is)? I am not sure either 
At least I thought she meant “well, it’s morning for some foreigners” and Americans just came to her mind first.
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Americans
Yeah, that’s what I assumed too.
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tbf, I had to look it up as well. I hardly remember the time difference between JP and my own country. 
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I have no idea why I decided to do this to myself. Page 1 and I’m already struggling 
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Honestly the first pg or two are a bit weird, and it’s tough getting used to an author’s style… Hang in there tho, and feel free to ask questions If you’re stuck/lost.
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Thank you! I actually read some of the manga and I didn’t think it would be this much harder to understand what is going on. The lack of furigana is throwing me a bit, and my ereader does not have a JP-EN dictionary so when I don’t know the reading I have to handwrite the kanji into my phone and pray it recognizes my handwriting lol. Can’t get Google Lens to work with the ereader screen.
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By any chance, does it work if you take a pic of the screen, and then Google lens the image? I find I have to do that at times (tho I’ve never used an eReader, unless you count phone/tablet)
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Doesn’t seem so, unfortunately. It doesn’t work on any text at all, even in plain English. It may be a low light thing, my ereader doesn’t have a backlight so the screen is relatively dark compared to other screens. I’ll try again in the morning 
Edit: confirmed that it works in better lighting. Guess I’ll need one of those old people neck lamps!
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If possible figuring out how to turn it into an ePub so you can load it into ttsu and yomitan it will help a lot. The instant lookups really make something like this a lot easier. (Though depending on your ereader, i.e. most of them, you will probably find this difficult).
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I second this. I use an Android app that is a wrapper for ttsu and it has been a complete game changer for how accessible books are.
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Thanks for your advice! I started it few days ago, also feel struggling on the first 2 pages. I wonder if this book is really suitable for the novel beginner? But the story seems very interesting so I still want to try.
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That’s a good idea! But I bought the book from Kindle store, seems it can only be read via kindle or Kindle app…
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The first page was definitely more difficult than the following ones (I’m ~20 pages in, as of right now). Try to persevere and push through it. Native material is going to be difficult like this, no matter how much prep you do, unless you opt to use a premade JPDB deck for a “deep dive” to learn relevant vocabulary before reading.
Also, feel free to post sentences that you have trouble with, someone will surely help with parsing/translating/understanding.
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I think it depends on what you usually read. For (children’s) books I usually read around ~L22-23, and this L26 is hard, but doable. (With dictionary lookups and the occasional DeepL support; I’m also using ttsu/yomichan.)
As a side note, I’m also reading ゆっくりおやすみ、樹の下で | L25, which is only one level less on paper, but despite that I’m finding it much more approachable. また has more complicated sentences and subject matter, and I regularly have to plug sentences into DeepL; in ゆっくり I sometimes go a whole sentence without any look-ups, and I barely had to use a translator at all.
Do you have a physical Kindle? There’s a really good dictionary for it that works with conjugated verbs. (Only for physical Kindle tho.)
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Thank you. I will try to push through it.
As a beginner I feel so great to have this book club.
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Thanks for your recommendations! I bookmarked ゆっくり and will try reading it next time.
It’s so nice to get a good dictionary! Hope it works with my old Kindle. Will try it tomorrow!
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Oh, and depending on how beginner you are (I can’t see your profile), there are multiple easier book clubs around. Roughly ordered by difficulty:
- WK’s Absolute Beginner Book Club (WaniKani Community; you can join for free without using WaniKani)
- WK’s Beginner Book Club (WaniKani Community)
- Children’s Book Club
- This book club
Good luck!
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I just wanted to jump in and thank everyone’s recommendation for the Audiobook once again. I listened to the part corresponding (more or less) to this week and, even though I didn’t understand 100% of it, I still understood most of it and I can follow the story quite well. It’s my first time listening to and Audiobook and I’m really enjoying the narration. As I’ve also joined a few other bookclubs, I unfortunately don’t have time to read the book alongside, but at least I can still participate this way I was going to post after catching up with this thread, but… it’s gotten quite long now! Which is great that people are actively discussing and asking questions.
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I may have read a little bit too far this week, because apparently the page numbers on Bookwalker are wildly different from those in the 文庫 version for some reason. I tried really hard to skim to find where I was supposed to have stopped based on the final line and I just can’t find it so I guess I’ll come back to discuss the plot in week 2 when there is a clear end of chapter
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