Nomination post
雪女
Summary
Copying this review from LearnNatively:
Nice little horror-y folktale, only a few pages long. It reminds me of a few other Japanese folktales I’ve read involving mysterious magical women.
Being an Aozora book, some of the usual difficulty caveats apply (e.g. some older kanji usage). Being a folktale set in the countryside, it also has some rustic vocabulary that may be unfamiliar if, like me, you mostly read more contemporary works. However, the grammar is not very complicated, and the longer sentences are broken up with punctuation.
Availability
Free:
Amazon JP
Aozora (Free - Public Domain)
Or not free:
Bookwalker
Physical: print the free version
Personal Opinion
I want to read this book because I have never yet read a book in Japanese, only manga.
I went on Natively to try and find a short story and found this one as the most popular one that wasn’t yet read on WK (unless I missed it), level 25.
Reading a whole book and pages of text sounds very scary. But this book is only fifteen pages, so I think we can do it And there is even an audio video of someone reading it!
Pros and Cons for the Book Club
Pros
- A book and not a manga
- Free
- Audio video
Cons
- A book and not a manga
Pictures
Additional Pages
See above, the whole book is in the nomination post
Difficulty Poll
How much effort would you need to read this book?
- No effort at all
- Minimal effort
- Moderate effort
- Substantial effort
- So much effort my head might explode
- I don’t know
- I am an experienced reader, so this is not much effort for me