The MDZS novel readalong - announcement
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theuntamed_mdzsHi everyone, here we go! Our MDZS novel readalong discussion (see original proposal here) will start on Saturday 22 January with novel chapters 1&2 (that's web serialization novel chapters 1-5).
How the read-along works in brief: one of us discussion mods (that's me andjo_lasalle ) will make a discussion post here in this forum with a very brief summary of what happens in the respective week's chapter(s), and a couple of questions to start us off, though anyone else is also very welcome to raise points, and the aim is that people talk to each other. We encourage people to track the post or come back after a day or two to discussion threads, since the strength of doing something like this on Dreamwidth is that you can have asynchronous chat over a couple of days, rather than everything having to happen instantly.
This readalong is prompted by the release of the English language paperback translation and we're going to work with its chapter numbers and titles (and where necessary, page count) and release schedule, but it's a general joint re-read, so people who are reading i.e. the German translation or existing web translations can of course also join the discussion.
After chapters 1 and 2, we are generally planning to do a chapter per week, with chapter 4 (v. long) split in half.
As a result, the schedule would be:
Yes, this will leave us with a fairly big break to the release of the next volume, but we opted for not drawing out the reading pace too much.
If you have any questions, feel free to drop us a comment! If you have a question you don't want to put in a comment, you can contact us at haikuesque@gmail.com.
So get ready, read the chapters, and take notes! :) Hope to see you on Saturday!
How the read-along works in brief: one of us discussion mods (that's me and
jo_lasalle ) will make a discussion post here in this forum with a very brief summary of what happens in the respective week's chapter(s), and a couple of questions to start us off, though anyone else is also very welcome to raise points, and the aim is that people talk to each other. We encourage people to track the post or come back after a day or two to discussion threads, since the strength of doing something like this on Dreamwidth is that you can have asynchronous chat over a couple of days, rather than everything having to happen instantly.This readalong is prompted by the release of the English language paperback translation and we're going to work with its chapter numbers and titles (and where necessary, page count) and release schedule, but it's a general joint re-read, so people who are reading i.e. the German translation or existing web translations can of course also join the discussion.
After chapters 1 and 2, we are generally planning to do a chapter per week, with chapter 4 (v. long) split in half.
As a result, the schedule would be:
- Saturday 22 January: Chapter 1 Reincarnation + Chapter 2 The Intractable (web serialization chapters 1-5)
- Saturday 29 January: Chapter 3 The Prideful (web serialization chapters 6-10)
- Saturday 5 February: Chapter 4 The Elegant Flirt part 1 (official translation pages 119-168, web serialization chapters 11-(halfway through) 16.6, ending as the group set out for Caiyi )
- Saturday 12 February: Chapter 4 The Elegant Flirt part 2 (official transllation pages 168-204, web serialization chapters 16.6-18)
- Saturday 19 February: Chapter 5 The Sunny Pair (web serialization chapters 19-22)
- Saturday 25 February: Chapter 6 The Malevolent (web serialization chapters 23-27)
- Saturday 4 March: Chapter 7 The Morning Dew (web serialization chapters 28-32)
Yes, this will leave us with a fairly big break to the release of the next volume, but we opted for not drawing out the reading pace too much.
If you have any questions, feel free to drop us a comment! If you have a question you don't want to put in a comment, you can contact us at haikuesque@gmail.com.
So get ready, read the chapters, and take notes! :) Hope to see you on Saturday!
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Date: 2022-01-16 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-01-17 05:30 pm (UTC)I've only skimmed the online tl, but there were some things about it that annoyed me, so I mostly kept to CQL canon.
Looking forward to discussing the offical tl! Had to stop myself from reading further that ch 1 today. XD
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Date: 2022-01-20 12:27 am (UTC)Looking forward to Saturday!