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Author: 小川洋子 (Join the 小川洋子 book club here)
Page count: 348 pages
Natively link (level 30/31??)
Nomination post

Paperback: Amazon.jp | cdjapan | Amazon uk
Ebook: Kindle |

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Schedule

Week Date Chapters End Percent Kindle mark
Week 1 26 April 1 and 2 5%
Week 2 3 May 3 and 4 ~10% 340
Week 3 10 May 5 and 6 14% 509

This post will be made a wiki [if I work out how], :arrow_down_small: please put characters/place names below :arrow_down_small:

Character names/place names
漢字 ふりがな ノート
小川洋子 おがわ・ようこ author
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Which version of the book will you be reading

  • Physical copy
  • eBook
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If you are planning to read along, when would you like to start?

  • Any time, don’t mind
  • end April/beginning May
  • mid May
  • end May/beginning June
  • I’ll read it but at my own pace
0 voters
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I selected mid-may since that looks like the best way for me personally, but I will join regardless of the timing.

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Sounds like most people don’t mind. Let’s start from next week then (26th April)

Next question - reading pace.

The book has 44 short chapters (total of ~3600 kindle marks), with chapters being about 90 kindle marks each.

My sense is that 2 chapters a week would be very manageable (I think that would roughly correspond to ~15 paperback pages, based on similar books), [22 weeks total], though I suspect we could go faster and three or even four chapters may be manageable.

Shall we start with 2 chapters and then see how that feels, speeding up if comfortable?

  • Sounds good to me
  • Prefer to start faster - three chapters/week
  • Prefer to start slower - one chapter/week
0 voters
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Anyone know how to turn the top post into a wiki?

Any preferences on whether we should create separate posts for weekly threads or just put comments below?

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I’m not sure… weekly threads are a great way to keep conversation about stories/chapters neat and clean, but we’ll end up with 22 threads… that feels like a lot, and that’s a lot of work for you !

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How about this: we could have a thread for the first four weeks or so (might be chapters 1-10, but we’ll see how we are going)?

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That works for me ! And we can keep comments by chapter anyway

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That sounds good! If we find out that we don’t discuss as much, we can have more chapters in it, but if we discuss a lot, we can split for 10 chapters each or so.

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Week 1 is here!

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And we are on to Week 2 to meet the mysterious ポチ子

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Week 3, and someone is missing…

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