Week 5 🧹 魔女の宅急便 🐈‍⬛ Kiki's Delivery Service 🌙

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5 June 10 5 23

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What an exciting change of pace! I really enjoyed this chapter. I planned to read about half of it because I was tired when I started, but ended up pushing through the whole thing.

I found her to be surprisingly chill about getting her broom broken, tbh. I would have been a lot more mad if someone stole something of mine and then broke it. Also, I wonder how Kiki is gonna get home now…

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Well instead of catch-up this week I worked multiple 12 hour days again, but I did managed to get thru chapter 5 at least.

ch5 thoughts

I’m kind of wondering what time period Kiki’s world is based on, given her unfamiliarity and shyness about a bathing suit. Maybe her hometown didn’t have a watering hole or creek to play in.

I’d be WAY more upset than her if someone broke my mother’s memento that was also my entire livelihood! Like it’s probably narrative comeuppance that the broom broke since she didn’t stop the boy from getting scratched up, but he stole it in the first place.

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I think it’s intentionally vague for atmospheric purposes, but they have telephones, so it can’t be any earlier than about the 1940-50s I’d say.

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