Question of Reading Comprehension
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 22:50![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekThis conversation came about from my reading group. I just got really, really baffled for a moment.
So… Is it I have a language issue, or has everyone gone bonkers? This conversation was had in February, if we were talking about a meeting in “next month”, that would be… March… and then someone says it’s the Easter weekend… but Easter weekend is April, but everyone’s still continuing the conversation as if Easter is in March?
And I don’t need a scientific/religion (whatever) reason as to how to calculate Easter, I just wanted to say that… it’s not the Easter weekend next month…???
After I light-heartedly repeated that “yeah, Easter is in April and combined with Chinese Holiday Ching-Ming it’s gonna be a long weekend,” I didn’t add on to the conversation after this… and… the group is still going on the assumption that Easter is next month.
We’ll see, we’ll see. I’ll probably not go to the meeting this time around as I didn’t really finish the book. My brain was just not accepting the premises of the book. Kept asking “but why?” (It’s a time travel book but there’s no reason for the time travel, no “loop” in the future that sort of refers back to the time travel. You know, in these time travel stories there’s something in the future that references something in the past that somehow is related to the future or some such concept.
I guess… I’m just too fixated on the J-drama type of time travel? I dunno. This book is just not growing on me.
So… Is it I have a language issue, or has everyone gone bonkers? This conversation was had in February, if we were talking about a meeting in “next month”, that would be… March… and then someone says it’s the Easter weekend… but Easter weekend is April, but everyone’s still continuing the conversation as if Easter is in March?
And I don’t need a scientific/religion (whatever) reason as to how to calculate Easter, I just wanted to say that… it’s not the Easter weekend next month…???
After I light-heartedly repeated that “yeah, Easter is in April and combined with Chinese Holiday Ching-Ming it’s gonna be a long weekend,” I didn’t add on to the conversation after this… and… the group is still going on the assumption that Easter is next month.
We’ll see, we’ll see. I’ll probably not go to the meeting this time around as I didn’t really finish the book. My brain was just not accepting the premises of the book. Kept asking “but why?” (It’s a time travel book but there’s no reason for the time travel, no “loop” in the future that sort of refers back to the time travel. You know, in these time travel stories there’s something in the future that references something in the past that somehow is related to the future or some such concept.
I guess… I’m just too fixated on the J-drama type of time travel? I dunno. This book is just not growing on me.
