Gauging interest for かがみの孤城 club soon

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So we’re getting towards the end of summer now (:sob:), and I wanted to poll interest again for かがみの孤城 | L29.

I cannot for the life of me remember all who was interested. I feel like @mitrac and maybe @soggyboy? but I forget who else… someone had a list but I also forget who that was and I couldn’t find our old discussion by searching the forum. Apologies!

If we can’t drum up enough interest I will probably start it myself sometime in the second half of August, but I was thinking maybe we can do an asynchronous book club where people can comment as they get to the book. :thinking:

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Ah, yes!! I meant to make a thread for this but it slipped my mind. I am interested! I think an at-your-own-pace club might be better than a scheduled club, since it’s a longish book.

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Yeah, at regular club pace I think it’d be the better part of a year to get through, and I’m already itchy in my 15+ week clubs :sweat_smile:

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A few people who might be interested: @Rose12 @CatDQ @freddyg @polv @IntrepidFox @Mara

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Interested but I don’t think I will be able to join in at the moment with additional commitments. :sweat_smile:

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I have already

  1. Read it on my own
  2. Read it aloud with a weekly discord book club
  3. Listened to the audiobook

So I won’t join. That said, clearly I love this book and highly recommend it. I do want to point out that a lot of people reading at a slowish book club pace (e.g. 15-20 pages per week) found the book to be slow, whereas I originally read it in about 3 weeks and found the pacing to be excellent.

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Sure I’m in. I’ll believe it when I see the club actually open so I’ve already started reading it but at a very slow pace. If you open it now I can eventually meet the pacing of the club.

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I have read and listened to audiobook. Though, I could consider rereading, but not high on the priority list. I don’t mind discussing, in any case.

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Thank you for bringing this to my attention! I just bought the audiobook and already had the ebook but had been putting it off. It might still be a bit too hard for me but I’ll give it a try.

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Technically I’m interested, but since I’m already planning to read Silent Witch volume 2 and 3 as fast as possible as soon as I finish reading 黒猫ニャンゴの冒険 1… probably not any time soon :grimacing:

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I can set up reading threads for people, probably this weekend. If @soggyboy (or anyone else) wants to snipe it before I get to it, feel free :slight_smile:

I was planning on doing one thread per chapter, and people can comment as they want as they read through the book.

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That sounds good! I might start this as one of my next paperback reads after honzuki vol 1, so I could probs get to reading within a couple weeks.

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That’s about my timeline too. I have 2 hours left on my current audiobook and another I want to finish for bingo before I start this one.

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Definitely interested! I am currently reading this, but only about 8% into the first half of the bunko version. I am hoping to set a decent pace, perhaps 40-50 pages/week.

Would be delighted to discuss the book with others.
よろしくお願いします！

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I’ve been meaning to read this for a while, I’m interested as well.

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Hi, thanks for the @. I would love to read it, but right now I am behind on everything. Though, if it is an “at your own pace” book club, then maybe?

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Home thread is up:

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Thanks for the tag! The only person missed from my tag list is @cat

I’m in the middle of catching up with stuff but will try my best to join!

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I’m going to be vaguely following along with the discussions, but since it’s an informal club with no schedule I probably won’t relisten to the audiobook.

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