Welcome to our newest book club pick!
Regarding the schedule, my first disclaimer is that I based the page counts off of my ebook (and the fact that Amazon claims the book has 524 pages in total). So the page counts will be somewhat off, I guess. I think for the purpose of the schedule that should be good enough, though, since I’m not expecting anybody to be in trouble if there are a few pages more or less per week (given this is the advanced book club). If anybody knows the chapter page numbers of the paper book, I’d be happy to hear about them and fix my schedule.
Anyway, at first I tried to stick to the club’s proposed 30-45 pages/week as closely as possible, and I came up with this 13-week schedule:
13-week schedule
| Week | Start Date | Start Chapter | Page Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Apr 10th | 1.1 | ~39.5 |
| Week 2 | Apr 17th | 1.6 | ~40 |
| Week 3 | Apr 24th | 2.6 | ~38 |
| Week 4 | May 1st | 3.3 | ~43 |
| Week 5 | May 8th | 4.3 | ~40.5 |
| Week 6 | May 15th | 5.1 | ~40 |
| Week 7 | May 22rd | 5.7 | ~35 |
| Week 8 | May 29th | 6.5 | ~43.5 |
| Week 9 | Jun 5th | 7.3 | ~40.5 |
| Week 10 | Jun 12th | 8.5 | ~45.5 |
| Week 11 | Jun 19th | 9.3 | ~35.5 |
| Week 12 | Jun 26th | 10.2 | ~40.5 |
| Week 13 | Jul 3rd | 10.9 | ~43.5 |
But then @yukine said:
So I checked and it sounds indeed like a good idea, which would get us to this 11-week schedule:
11-week schedule
| Week | Start Date | Chapter | Page Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Apr 10th | 1 | ~47 |
| Week 2 | Apr 17th | 2 | ~55 |
| Week 3 | Apr 24th | 3 | ~48 |
| Week 4 | May 1st | 4 | ~51 |
| Week 5 | May 8th | 5 | ~50 |
| Week 6 | May 15th | 6 | ~46 |
| Week 7 | May 22rd | 7 | ~48 |
| Week 8 | May 29th | 8 | ~50 |
| Week 9 | Jun 5th | 9 | ~37 |
| Week 10 | Jun 12th | 10 | ~65 |
| Week 11 | Jun 19th | 11 | ~37 |
The average is about 47 pages, but the book has been rated as rather easy, so there’s that. And the hardest week (#10) is surrounded by two relatively easy weeks, so people can balance this a bit if they like. And I think the rhythm of reading the story will be much better when reading a full chapter per week instead of the mix-and match approach of the first schedule.
So, what do you think of this?
- I prefer 13 weeks
- I prefer 11 weeks
- Either is fine for me
- I prefer something else (please explain)