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.
Oh wow, I finished up on Sunday and I’m still the first one to post?
I’m still enjoying the story so far. I felt like this week was a little bit harder than last week’s reading. Mostly it’s adverbs that I don’t know so I’m happy to extensively read (listen?).
I haven’t seen the movie in years but I’m surprised how closely it’s followed the story for that so far. I had thought that the movie was only loosely based on the book, but maybe I was thinking of another Ghibli adaptation?
Not sure if the structure of the book counts as spoilers, so I will blur it out
From what I remember, the book becomes fairly episodic, with each chapter being its own little story with its own characters (aside from Kiki). The movie took some of those and has them play simultaneously, and also adds an overarching plot for Kiki.
I’m a little late, but I finally found the time to listen to chapter three. In general, I’m finding this to be great listening practice.
It was interesting to hear Kiki’s family’s theories on why magic has been disappearing. The rest of the chapter was quite similar to the movie. I hope that later chapters will diverge a bit.
