There has been some discussion in the Week 3 thread which I think would make sense to move to the home thread because not everybody might be reading the week 3 thread yet, and because it might affect the whole book club moving forward.
I’m somewhat relieved to hear that my initial instinct was not that bad after all 
(I had the same learning when we read 雪国 …)
We haven’t heard back from most of the others, but I’d always be in favor of lowering the pace somewhat 
The question would be how we could do that in a reasonable way. I’d very much like to end a week’s reading on the end of a chapter or sub-chapter as we only have so few of them. Looking at that, what are our options?
| Chapter | Week(s) | Pages | Future plan? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 (rest) | 4 + 5 | 18 + 16 = 34 | stick with this?? Or 8 + 13 + 13? |
| 3.1 | 6 + 7 | 22 + 17 = 39 | 3 weeks of 13 pages each? |
| 3.2 + 後書き | 8 + 9 | 21 + 18 = 39 | 3 weeks of 13 pages each? |
| (shortening the new week 4 is meant to be a compensation for week 3’s long reading). |
This feels quite long indeed as it would introduce 3 more weeks, so there might be a better solution?
Another alternative would of course be to go across chapter boundaries in one week, which would allow for a somewhat better overall balance.
I would like to check back with everybody: how are you currently faring with this book and what do you think of changing the schedule?
- I have finished week 3
- I have started but not yet finished week 3, and I am planning to finish it
- I have not yet started week 3 and I am planning to read it
- I have decided to drop the book
- Stick with the original 9-week schedule
- Add 1 week (uniform length, crossing chapter boundaries)
- Add 1 week (by adding 1 week in chapter 3.1)
- Add 2 weeks (uniform length, crossing chapter boundaries)
- Add 2 weeks (by adding 1 week each in chapter 3.1 and 3.2)
- Add 3 weeks (by adding 1 week per (sub-)chapter)
- Something else entirely (please explain)
(the “by adding 1 week” options would be like laid out in the table above, for the chapters concerned)
I will post this week’s thread anyway, but depending on the poll outcome I will adapt the end of this week’s reading later.