I’ve been wondering how to get at this as well. So for Frieren I started with 10 pages with text (from 3-4 speech bubbles/page) and ramped it up to the final weeks at ~20 pages per week, and that seemed in line with previous clubs. But as you said, I have no idea if that’s the right pace. But waiting until the end of the club doesn’t quite get to it, as if it was too fast, then we lost the target audience by then and they probably wouldn’t see the poll on the book club thread. I wonder if I/we/someone should have a little discussion on the BBC thread (if you agree) and decide a) what questions to ask and b) when to poll - and put such a poll on the BBC thread to attract the most votes. For example, if we poll soon, that would capture people who just finished the previous pick and are just starting Frieren. Then we can do another one toward the end of Frieren or wait until after this one starts. Anyway, the idea I want to get across is not to wait for a pick to finish (another 7 or 8 weeks), but just start gathering that info now (since one pick did recently finish) and to do it on the BBC thread for max visibility. I’d be happy to do it, but @Gorbit99 and @TobiasW you’ve both been around longer so if one of you would want to lead that discussion and polling it might be better.
I’m probably a tad below this book club’s level, having not quite finished N5 grammar. So not sure whether I’m technically the target audience.
When I started reading フリーレン it was at 20 minutes-ish a page and only managing a few pages a day. One page took me almost an hour to decipher. I did not have a lot of time for any other reading.
This last week I was able to read rather quickly. I’m not sure whether that was a one off. If it was, increasing the pace is going to be terrifying. If it wasn’t… Still scary but less so.
way to jump in feet first! The ABBC pace would have been less of a wild ride, and there tends to be more sentence by sentence support, but you seem to be doing fine! It really does get dramatically easier and easier week on week, so I expect you’ll do ok with the pace increase. It will be challenging, but I think you’ll be able to hold on
I did enjoy it a lot, as the writing is easy and I loved the moody atmosphere. Gotta love the post-apocalyptic solitude.
And I say did enjoy because I couldn’t help it and read the whole thing already… the only thing that’s keeping me away from vol2 and 3 is the IBC, 変な家, which is keeping me very busy for the foreseeable future.
If you’ve read the first 3 chapters, it pretty much went on like this, very athmospheric, great art, each chapter an episodic story, not much info about the general setting or worldbuilding so far.
(Yes I am late, I was on a plane again, please forgive me)
We’ve reached the penultimate week of this book club, last two weeks were a bit heavy, but let’s get to something maybe (slightly) easier (and to some actual lore!)
Hope everyone enjoyed (if you can call it that) this manga.
Now, there are currently 3 volumes of this series released, so an offshoot book club would be in order. Fair warning however, the other 2 volumes are quite a bit more difficult than this one was, simply because there is more text. But let’s put this to a good old vote
Would you want an off-shoot book club for the rest of the volumes?
2! Week 2 has started!
