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I'll probably start reading after I'm done with Borne, so expect a late start from me this month!

Our book for February is: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin "Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to...

Reading is for nerds

Huh, I remember nothing about this. I don't know how I feel about the Japanese title. I feel like I would potentially have felt misled and let down by that particular item's importance. The english title plays less with readers expectations, IMO. This is in chapter 25, in chapter 22 there's...

I finished a while ago but I guess I should share some thoughts on the ending

I'm at the exact same point.

Read 10, 11 and 12 since the last update.

Can't believe it took them so long to lynch you lol Finally.

Reading chapter 5 put me at 15% so I guess that's that for today. Nice little vignette anyway. I'm enjoying writing these, feels like I might be able to appreciate the book better this way. I'm definitely feeling better about sharing my thoughts as I go along rather than at the very end...

Read 2 more chapters. I think I'll continue reading ~2 chapters/~5% a day and post impressions if I have em.

(I just realized the book description in goodreads calls it "part allegory" so maybe I'm onto something lol)

I've only read 2 chapters so far.

Our book for January is: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa "On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects--ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those...

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Here's an attempt at archiving the live conversation we had on Discord. The formatting sucks unfortunately, since it's just a copy-paste from the discord window using the "compact" messages setting to avoid avatars getting copied too. Spoilers for the whole book: