Becoming a a cat in a different world - an adventure that is more than just cute begins!
A boy is reborn in another world and aspires to become an adventurer, but his body is that of a cat person, the weakest race in the world, and the magic he has in his hands has the emptiness (空) attribute, which is ridiculed as just that: “empty” (空っぽ).
However, the boy, despite his great disadvantage, uses his ingenuity to transform emptiness attribute magic into magic that can create weapons and armor, and even walk in the sky.
With the support of the kindness of those around him, he grows up, and when he realizes the true value of the emptiness attribute, his journey as the strongest cat adventurer begins!
(Source: DeepL translation from the Amazon.co.jp, edited by me)
Content warnings
Bullying. Loss of a body part.
Club Schedule
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Last Words Before Paragraph End
Week 1
TBD
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Discussion Guidelines
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.
Will you be reading along when the club starts?
Yes
No
Maybe
I’ll be reading, but at my own pace
0voters
What type of media will you be consuming the book as?
Welcome to our book club! It’ll still be a bit until I can figure out a proper schedule, but let’s already find out how long we have to wait until we start.
Are you ordering a physical copy and need time for it to arrive?
Alright, I bought the book and I’ll soon try to figure out a good schedule. Before any concrete schedules though, let’s see what we’re working with.
The physical book has 320 pages in total.
So, here are two polls to gauge the mood and reading ability. These will be used as guidelines to select the schedule; I’m not gonna blindly take the most voted for option. (E.g. if most people would “be okay” with 16 weeks, but it turns out that would be too fast for several readers, we will probably go with 22 or 32 weeks instead.)
I’d be okay with…
11 weeks (30 pages/week)
13 weeks (25 pages/week)
16 weeks (20 pages/week)
22 weeks (15 pages/week)
32 weeks (10 pages/week)
0voters
Select all options you think would be alright for the club. You can select as many as you want. Selecting slower options even if you are able to read quickly can open up the club for slower participants.
I think the fastest speed I could read at would be…
Oops, now I have to find space in my reading schedule for this. I’m going to try and read along, but I selected ‘at my own pace’ so I don’t feel bad if I fall behind. But if it turns out to be a breezy read then I’ll read along.
And of course I bought the book to read it some time in the future, but at the moment I couldn’t take part in the club regularly, as I have fixed “dates“ with two other more difficult novels, one end of May, the other end of July. During this time I wouldn’t want to read another book in parallel, so I would fall behind. And more generally I definitely don’t like to read two novels in turns. So for now it will stay a maybe which means probably not. Sorry.
Considering that we’ll probably be a rather small crowd (with only 3 people as “yes”) with wildly varying reading speed levels and 2 people reading at their own pace anyway, I was wondering whether it might be a good idea to experiment a little and make this an at-your-own-pace club.
My idea is basically: I’d immediately create 7 threads, one per chapter. No schedule. People can read as quickly or slowly as they want, and comment as they go along in the correct chapter thread.
I like the at-your-own-pace idea
I’d rather have a regular scheduled club where everyone reads in sync
I’d say I’m ambivalent, but I feel like I’m more likely to fall off reading if I don’t have social pressure to read specific parts at specific times. please don’t look at my now reading section
I’m in a similar position to @shitsurei probably, since I’m reading a ton of stuff and it’s hard to know how into the book I’ll be.
I’m the only person who didn’t vote for 15 pgs/week option. So if having that will make it possible for everyone to do it on a schedule, then go ahead and do that. We can always look at pace again later on, depending on who sticks around, what they’re comfortable with, etc
I agree with this. Since a lot of people are undecided, the slowest pace option gives everyone an opportunity to keep up. We can revisit the pace later in the book.
Counterargument: The longer a club goes, the more likely it is that people will drop out before the end or start reading ahead and stop participating. (Also the slowest pace would be 10 pages/week.)
But I’d be happy to e.g. start with 15 pages/week for the first chapter or two and see what those who are reading with us think about the pace.
Agree with most of the above - seems like a good idea to start at ~15 pages/week and move to 15-20 or even slightly more if others agree in a couple of weeks. I was also a bit torn between reading at my own pace and with a schedule, but I’m also involved in several other clubs and I agree with shitsurei and 暁のルナ that reading with a schedule is better to keep yourself motivated to continue.
I read this book (and the second volume, dropped the series a bit into volume 3). I liked it, but not to the point of reading it again.
I’m looking forward to the discussions, though.
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