Advanced Japanese Book Club Welcome to our Advanced Japanese book club! In this club we choose a Japanese book, read it together, and discuss what we’ve read. It could be meaningful discussion on the content, questions about vocabulary and grammar that confuse us, or just motivating each other to ke…

Thanks for the fresh nominations everybody! :hugs: Also please note that I shifted 村上海賊の娘 from “Fast” to “Hard” after all that I heard about it, plus its Natively level… :sweat_smile: Here is our next Poll :tada: Have a look at the List of Proposed Books section in the first post for details on ea…

[image] soggyboy: The bookwalker preview Supposedly this one, but as a separate entry. [image] ファイア・ドーム冒頭試し読み特別版 ※本タイトルは2026/6/5発売予定『ファイア・ドーム』上巻、下巻（著／辻村深月）の冒頭試し読み特別版です。人はなぜ大きな事件に魅了されてしまうのか噂は、軽薄な娯楽だ。 25年前、平穏だったはずの地方都市は、百貨店受付嬢誘拐殺人事件の…

[厳選5冊。最近読んで「これは来る」と思った本【2026年5-6月】] starting to see it recommended. Maybe I need to switch my vote :thinking: . Though it’s apparently mystery adjacent, and I’m not sure if I’m up for another mystery just now. It also looks to me as if the book is a package deal for sure. I’m not sure…

[image] downtimes: starting to see it recommended. Maybe I need to switch my vote :thinking: . Yes, if you read :fire: Fire Dome :fire:, you’ll be cool like all the cool kids. Trust me. [image] downtimes: I’m not sure only the 上 volume would be satisfactory. We can read the other volu…

Hmm, we’re down four votes since the previous poll. I wonder if people have missed it, or maybe it’s just too hot right now to think about reading :melting_face:

I can read in every weather :face_with_peeking_eye:. It’s great to sit outside in a park or garden and read a book while drinking something cold. Isn’t that a perfect summer activity?

And the winner is… 光の帝国 :tada: :partying_face: :fireworks: @pocketcat would you like to be our host for this book?

[image] NicoleIsEnough: @pocketcat would you like to be our host for this book? Happy to! I just moved to a new city and have been quite busy as a result, so probably won’t set up the home thread + propose a schedule immediately, but since the club doesn’t start til August 8th I feel I have s…

[image] pocketcat: Happy to! Looking forward to it! [image] pocketcat: probably won’t set up the home thread + propose a schedule immediately, but since the club doesn’t start til August 8th I feel I have some time :sweat_smile: Yes don’t get stressed out about it! Take your time and …

Made a home thread with a drafted schedule. This would have been a bit more awkward to cut up for the IBC but for the ABC it was nearly perfect (excluding the second to last and last stories). [image] bright_button 光の帝国 crown - Home Thread Book Clubs Join the …

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I’ve posted the home thread for our next book: さわらびの譜 Book Club : Starting Oct 3rd! – so we have somewhere to talk about scheduling etc.

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