Spoilers should always be hidden using spoiler blur.
When discussing a specific section, please mention where you are in the book, ideally by chapter, so people reading different versions have a clear point of reference.
Feel free to read ahead if it’s exciting, but please refrain from spoiling ahead of the appropriate week.
If you have a question about grammar, vocab, cultural things, etc - ask! That’s a welcome part of the discussion too, and other readers will be happy to help.
There are 166 pages in my digital version, so I’ll count pages according to it.
The physical copy has 224 (source: amazon).
Chapter
Start %
Start page
Length
Chapter 1
1%
Page 4
28 pages
Chapter 2
19%
Page 32
32 pages
Chapter 3
39%
Page 64
39 pages
Chapter 4
63%
Page 103
33 pages
Chapter 5
83%
Page 136
26 pages
At a first scroll, the book is not generous with breaks within the chapter. There are no breaks with starts and not many empty line breaks (they might be hiding between pages, I’ll do a sweep on my phone later too).
How fast would you like to go?
~30 pages/week, and brave through chapter 3 in one week (5 weeks)
~30 pages/week, but cut chapter 3 in half (6 weeks)
~15 pages per week (10 weeks)
Other ideas, like cutting it by 20 pages, ignoring the chapter separation?
Oh wow, this takes me back. I watched the anime way back when it came out and wanted to read the novels but never got around to it. Good excuse to do it now.
I’ll probably join. My first book club experience was fun and now I want to try out one with a weekly schedule
I’ll buy the physical version. Could we maybe get the last couple of words added to the table above, so it helps me figuring out where yo stop, @Kroki?
When we decide on the actual schedule (depending on the voting/comments), I’ll format it properly.
For now that’s a reference of format & size to decide on the pace
I’m tempted to follow along with the audiobook as well; volume 1 is relatively fresh in my mind, having read it last summer, but I enjoyed the book so much I’m not opposed to revisiting it.
Tagging @CatDQ@読み蛙 just in case you guys haven’t seen the thread, since I know you’ve expressed interest in reading the book in the past.
I have wanted to try participating in a book club for almost two years now, but for various reasons it never happened. But this time I already own the book, and was planning on reading it later this year, so I don’t have any excuses not to join.
Not sure though how it will go, as this will be a challenge for me (both language-wise and socially…) But I’m looking forward to my first (attempt at joining a) book club.
Another way you could split it would be to read 15 pages for the first two or three weeks, see how folks are doing, then speed up to a full chapter per week after that.
My voting is very helpful. but, personally, I will read a full chapter anyways and then just join whichever week that chapter finishes. So the pacing and splitting has no effect on me.
I have a bit of a chaotic first half of the year, but if I can find time I will join. If not, I will read at some point this year, so I will add some thoughts fashionable late at the very least
Yeah, it’s all going to come down to font size and font real estate. I recently started No. 6 #3, which is listed at having 216 physical pages (which should be right when I glanced at my physical copy) vs. my Kindle which reports only 167 digital pages. And looking at #1, physical copy is 213 pages vs. my Kindle’s 166. I’m kind of surprised there’s that much difference, honestly.
So honestly, for pace, it might be worth re-voting based on the physical page numbers, not the estimated digital ones, in the case that folks don’t want to read a full chapter a week. (Which it looks like they do, so just ignore me, haha.)
Also (sorry), since I’m looking at my physical copy, your current week break for week 3 ends right in the middle of a scene; if you’d like something at a natural scene/line break, you could use this end line on (physical) p.105 instead: 平和な穏やかな日常が、存在していた。 It occurs about 21 pages into chapter 3, so not an exact 50% of the way through, but it’s close.
For chapter 1, if you need someone to read and check what line ending would be most natural if you cut that chapter in half, I can check as well.
Could we maybe get the last couple of words added to the table above, so it helps me figuring out where yo stop, 
but, personally, I will read a full chapter anyways and then just join whichever week that chapter finishes. So the pacing and splitting has no effect on me.
