This is an off-shoot of the original 夏目友人帳 Book Club, which ran in 2018, and it will be following a schedule. A handful of us decided to revive it, only to find out we weren’t the only ones who were interested! This was originally for the Beginner Book Club. 夏目友人帳 is considered level 26 on Learn Natively.
Takashi Natsume has always been aware of the supernatural world, but after he inherits a magical book from his grandmother, the supernatural world is aware of him!
Takashi Natsume can see the spirits and demons that hide from the rest of humanity. He has always been set apart from other people because of his gift, drifting from relative to relative, never fitting in. Now he’s a troubled high school student who has come to live in the small town where his grandmother grew up. And there he discovers that he has inherited more than just the Sight from the mysterious Reiko.
When Reiko was Takashi’s age, she bound the names of demons and spirits in her Book of Friends, enslaving them to her capricious whim. Now Takashi is the owner of the book, and the creatures will do anything to get their names back.
(Source: Learn Natively)
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My intention is to have the schedule in the volume threads that I’ll create later. Since we’re reusing the old threads for volume one, I’m temporarily putting it here.
Chapter
Start Date
Pages
第一話
August 14
50 pages
第二話
August 29
50 pages
第三話
September 12
50 pages
第四話
September 26
40 pages
Remember to set the thread to Watching to receive updates!
Since people were asking about if we had a particular schedule, I wanted to get a post up quickly! For clarity, for volume 1 we’re reusing the threads for the original book club. For that reason, I wanted to ask people about what kind of schedule they would like for volume 1 here!
For the schedule so far, we had mostly talked about:
1 chapter every two weeks
Potential preference for Friday or Sunday so it doesn’t conflict with IMC?
Does anyone have any other thoughts about a schedule for volume 1 or any preferences? Once we’ve settled on something, I can quickly write up a schedule for us to follow.
For the next volumes we’ll have our own threads, so it’ll be easier to reference!
Sounds great to me. Maybe post the link on the BBC to see if anyone she wants to join!
Also, check out the stickied posts on the book clubs section. There’s a master list of book clubs where you can link the offshoot, and there is a great post to help me book club leaders, although it looks like you already have that part down. Thanks so much for organising
Ooh, really good idea! I’ll definitely do that. Plus adding to the sticky! Which I think needs to be updated for the BBC anyway!
Thank you for the reminder!! I just did that LOL
Did you (or anyone else in this thread) have any preference for Friday versus Sunday? I was thinking maybe Friday might be nice, because then responses could trickle in over the weekend!
I prefer Friday as well. Also, as club leader, sometimes it’s a bit easier than later in the weekend, at least for me, eg, if I’m away. So do what suits you well and people will adjust
A quick update that I’ve added a schedule for volume one to the main post here! In the future I’ll have the schedules posted in the individual volume threads.
I also have no preference. I’m in too many clubs and now just start reading them on Friday in the order the clubs post. I guess I also run one of them too, lol, but that one posts Sunday (mostly bc I like having the reminder of my other clubs starting to remind me to post it ).
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