Howl's Moving Book Club discussion

Pre-prep

quick question, when are we starting this buddyread? I was thinking around February? but I'm not sure on everyone's schedules etc. if you're participating, can you let me know so I have a general idea of how many responses to wait for.

I mean the word schedule isn't really in my dictionary, I'm awful at planning things, but February is extremely convenient for me, bc my birthday is then so I can definitely make sure I can buy a copy

February's good for me :)

yeah ok. If you don't mind me asking, Paris, what day is your birthday? I could at least wish you a happy one, despite it being in lockdown.

Aww thank you that’s so sweet! My birthday is on the fourth :)

don't mind me, just setting up some kind of reminder ;)

wait whens ur bday??

April 26

I have 8 weeks left on the hold for One of Us is Lying but luckily my hold on One of Us is Next has 2 weeks left so I plan to suspend it until it's convenient to check it out

I consider myself something of an expert on strategizing the use of my library's ebook app lol

I don't really understand but let's just make like its a comp sci lesson and say 'Ok. Cool.'

Ayyyy I checked out the book so whenever y'all wanna start I'm ready

Ok awesome! I'm ready to go whenever suits you guys as well!

are we doing it in sections?

I’ve got book one to hand, and my aunt just sent me some money so I should have book two very soon!

Usually, myself and Kara use sections of about 50-60 pages a day (if we can). In a book of about 3-400 pages, it stretches out to about a week or just over. If you had a different way you wanted to do it, I don't mind trying it out?

that would work except I have an ebook... could we divide the sections by chapters?

Yeah we normally divide the sections by chapters but each sections is roughly about 50-60 pages.
I'm happy to organise the sections if you like?

okay!

Hello guys!
I just found my copy of OOUIL and it's completely battered :')
Oh well!

I have some ideas for the sections we can do. So, there's currently 6 sections; each are about 60 pages long - however if this is too much for you, please say and we can adjust! I'm just going by what Zaynab and I normally do.

The sections I have currently are:
1: Chapters 1-5
2: Chapters 6-11
3: Chapters 12-16
4: Chapters 17-21
5: Chapters 22-26
6: Chapters 27-end

Hopefully this is ok, but as I said, I'm more than happy to change it.
When would you guys like to start? Start of February?

Sounds good

February 1 sounds good

I need the motivation lol

Awesome! Feb 1st it is, if Paris and Zaynab are happy :)

seems all fine and dandy to me. my copies of OOUIL and OOUIN remain untouched since I bought them. I think I marked sections out in them before it became a buddyread so let's see how accurate mine was. (probably not very).

'ello, 'ello,
Just checking to see if everyone's set to start reading OOUIL today?

Why did it take me this long to register that it’s February 💀

Lol i registered that when my friend said pinch punch first of the month

Your excuse is that it's only the first and January is a boring month because you realise you have to do the entire year all over again.

I have an optimistic approach on life, as we can tell... 😐

Zaynab I feel that on a spiritual level-

Well this conversation got deep real quick -
Long story short, yes, I’m happy to start oouil today if you guys are :)

I already started lol I'm liking it so far

You guys were having some deep conversation I’m just sitting here eating leftover cake batter

I love cake batter lol

it was really deep Paris. so sorry you missed it.

WOW OKAY I JUST NEED TO TAKE A MINUTE SIMON LITERALLY DIED IN TWO CHAPTERS I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS-

I just realized it's 2am for you guys but that was kinda traumatic like TWO CHAPTERS that's....ahhhhhhhhhh

I mean I know it's a murder mystery but STILL...

😂😂😂

It wasn't what I was expecting. I thought it would be more gruesome and get more into the psychological state of the characters? Was I just expecting too much, probably.

Yo guys, how’s it going? Do people have any theories so far? This is a reread for me, I already know how it ends, but I’d be intrigued to know your thoughts!

I've just finished chapter 14 but Cooper seems pretty suspicious

Ah ok, interesting!

It seems like the author WANTS you to believe that though so I'm not sure about anything lol

I'm just getting second-hand embarrassment from half the stuff Nate says

I've not read anything in the last 2 days (because I can't seem to get my priorities straight), so imma read 250 pages tomorrow.

I love Nate lol

I feel like this book really deserves a movie, but it would have to be accurate to be good

I think it’s becoming a show