Week 3 👁 眼球堂の殺人 ~ The Book ~! 👁

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Welcome to the third week of 眼球堂の殺人 ~The Book~！ :eye: :mirror_ball: :eye:!

Home thread for announcements, wiki, etc

We are following the below schedule (page counts may vary based on your medium):

Week Up to Approximate Pages Approx. Percent Paperback page
Week 1 - Feb 10 Read until Chapter 1, part 4 33 9%
Week 2 - Feb 17 Read until Chapter 1, part 7** 39 18%
Week 3 - Feb 24 Read to end of Chapter 1 :stop_sign: 28 25%
Week 4 - Mar 03 Read until Chapter 2, part 3 30 32%
Week 5 - Mar 10 Read until Chapter 2, part 5 35 40%
Week 6 - Mar 17 Read until Chapter 2, part 7 29 46%
Week 7 - Mar 24 Read until Chapter 3, part 2 25 52%
Week 8 - Mar 31 Read until Chapter 3, part 5 38 61%
Week 9 - Apr 7 Read until Chapter 3, part 8 28 67%
Week 10 - Apr 14 Read to end of Chapter 4 46 78%
Week 11 - Apr 21 Read until 謎 part 3 40 87%
Week 12 - Apr 28 through end of epilogue 46 100%

I will generally copy this information over thread to thread each week for ease of finding - you can always expect the schedule at the top of any weekly thread :slight_smile:

:policeman: Law and Order :policewoman:

  • Any reveals, for the current chapters must be behind spoilers or detail curtains. When we get further in you don’t need to hide details that were revealed in previous chapters.
  • Questions on vocab, grammar, nuance, and the like are both welcome and encouraged. If you’re not sure if it’s a spoiler, assume it is and use one of the above options to hide the text.
  • You are encouraged to speculate and guess wildly
  • Be kind about other peoples’ wild guesses :sparkling_heart:
  • Even if you don’t read the chapter(s) in time, you are still encouraged to post in the thread for that reading once you have finished it. I advise not reading ahead in the threads as you may see spoilers.

To gauge participation - a poll!

Are you reading week 3 of 眼球堂の殺人?

  • Yes, I’m planning to read along/am reading along this week
  • I’m reading, but not at the same pace as the club
  • I’m just following the discussion :popcorn:
0 voters

Happy sleuthing! :male_detective:

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Nothing has happened yet. I wonder if the pace is just slow because this book is more than twice as long as the Detective Conan novels that I usually read, or it’s the writer’s style.

I’ll continue reading this book when Week 4 starts next week. Will read other books in between.

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What room did 藍子 actually go into??? Is she gonna wake up next to a corpse? Or worse - 十和田? :joy:

I’m also curious if that one character (I forgot to note down who, whoops) mixing ice into his beer will have any significance of if it was just to be like ‘oh look how quirky this person is’. I feel like it’s the former, though.

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Finished! Nothing to say about this week: some parts were boring and repetitive, others were a bit more interesting, the whole set up takes way too much time.

Someone shall die in ch 2 or I’m throwing hands :hocho: The only funny thing for me was 白いコック in the very beginning. Took me by surprise at first, but then I remembered it’s not bl :joy:

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