Welcome to the book club for 魔女の宅急便 (also known as Kiki’s Delivery Service), the book which the well-known anime was based on. Join us as we read through the first volume of the series!
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.
We could follow the WK schedule, which reads around 10 pages a week. They have included a week with no reading to give people the opportunity to catch up, which we could include if people like the idea, which takes the total time to 21 weeks to complete the book. If people think this would be too slow, we could make a new schedule reading more pages every week.
I think we could probably leave the decision on a catch up week til we have a couple weeks under our belts. We’ll have a better idea of how it’s going at that point.
I read half way through Kiki over 2 years ago, and remember struggling a lot before moving on to other things. Not yet sure if I will join, but maybe I get to finally finish the book
Looks like everyone wants the new schedule and we’re tired for May 6th and May 13th, but since bilbiothecary organised this I reckon they should get the tie breaking choice <3
Also I appreciate all the vocab links and have grabbed myself the Anki deck.
Can anyone let me know if they have a guide to turn this kindle fbx file into something I can load on ttsu? I swear I had an EPUB when I tried reading this like nearly a year or more ago but I can’t dig it up
I think starting on the 13th might be better - having only a week’s notice is fine if you’re reading the ebook, but it’s not great for those who want to order a physical copy. I think having at least two weeks for people to purchase the book would be more sensible (will remember this for next time… ).
I’ve made a reading schedule, which mostly sticks to a chapter a week. The first couple of chapters are relatively short so they’ve been combined in week 1, and the third is longer than the others so it has been split over two weeks.
Week
Chapter
Pages
1
1 & 2
20
2
3
20
3
3
15
4
4
26
5
5
23
6
6
25
7
7
25
8
8
21
9
9
19
10
10
18
11
11
23
Would you like to follow this reading schedule?
Yeah, looks good!
No (comment below)
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Everyone seems to be in agreement about the pace, so just a quick question about the threads:
Week: a new thread every week; may cover more or less than one chapter (most Natively book clubs seem to work this way)
As it seems that most people agree that it’s harder than ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂, I might be pretty slow with this, doubly so because I’m gonna be using the physical book. I might just do what I did with ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂 though, that is, to catch up in the later chapters, once my level is slightly higher. So if we use this schedule it’s still fine for me, I’m just almost certain that I won’t manage to follow it exactly.
I reserved the book from the library but I believe it’s an older harder version than this common one found on this site and Amazon. Will try and compare with this BC version on Audible, hopefully identical.
I would also love to join but I’m a bit hesitant since I’m committed to several other book clubs… will give it a try and follow the first few weeks though!
It appears that these are identical books with audible, at a glance. I like this old 1985 hardcover version with big pages and occasional illustrations so that’s what I’m going with. The paperback version is quite similar but more dense and compact in the pages.
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