You shouldn’t need to create a separate forum account, I believe. Just try logging in with your natively one. (Or is that what you’re already trying to do?)
I think it still needs to create an account for the forums, it just uses SSO with Natively itself for login.
Ah, interesting; that’s unfortunate. 
Hopefully @sweetbeems can help, then.
Oh no! I’ll try to fix for you. In the meantime, I recommend logging out of the main site and logging back in. That might work… might not. 
Edit: @anon58036518 what’s your Natively username?
Edit 2: OK, I think I fixed the problem @anon58036518. There was indeed a bug for new users, thanks for the note. It is a tad unfortunate too, as I did some outreach and had a bunch of new users come on the site the past two days.. oh well .. 
Sorry for the late reply! Different time zones, so I was sleeping 
The problem is already fixed, but my username there is fuwawadesu
Aw, I’m sad to hear about the bug and outreach! But I do hope that new people keep coming! Maybe put a notice saying that all is fixed now so people can try again? (If it helps to know, I only found out that Natively had forums yesterday lol So maybe there is still hope >_< )
Anyway a bunch of thanks to everyone for helping me out, and sorry for going a little out topic here in the book club! φ(゜▽゜*)♪
I lost my Regular status it seems, can’t fix the title 
I fix 
Hey all, it’s about time to start our next poll! So if anybody wants to propose a new book, now would be a good time 
I will start the poll on 2024-03-14T10:00:00Z so please get your proposals in by then!
OK as there is no immediate rush, I’ll propose something myself:
アンダーグラウンド
Author: 村上春樹
Summary
Japanese
1995年3月20日の朝、東京の地下でほんとうに何が起こったのか。同年1月の阪神大震災につづいて日本中を震撼させたオウム真理教団による地下鉄サリン事件。この事件を境に日本人はどこへ行こうとしているのか、62人の関係者にインタビューを重ね、村上春樹が真相に迫るノンフィクション書き下ろし。
Length: 780
Category: Fast
Natively link: アンダーグラウンド | L33
Availability
Amazon
Bookwalker (please use this link for a preview)
Personal Opinion
This is a nonfiction book about the poison gas terror attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. It mainly consists of interviews with a large number of people who rode one of the Tokyo subways during the incident.
It’s very thick at almost 800 pages, so we could decide to read the first half in the book club or something. If people are still interested, we can finish it in an offshoot book club.
Pros and Cons for the Book Club
Pros
- Nonfiction for a change
- Written by Murakami Haruki which promises an easy writing style.
Cons
- Terror attack report, so may contain disturbing descriptions.
- Written by Murakami Haruki
- how much weird stuff can he manage to slip into a nonfiction book?
I’m almost on time with
The Poll!
Have a look at the List of Proposed Books section in the first post for details on each book. If you are interested, you can have a look at the books’ Natively levels through this list. The Natively level is also annotated in the poll in square brackets after each book’s name.
Do not rely solely on the levels when making a choice. Please have a look at the nomination posts and text samples if you haven’t already.
Expected reading pace: The proposals fall into two categories, Fast and Hard. We aim to read fast books at 30-50 pages per week and hard books at ~15 pages per week (that number might vary a bit throughout, depending on the book’s breaks and chapters). For manga, depending on difficulty and chapter length, we will probably read one to several chapters per week. The pick’s exact reading schedule will be negotiated before the book club kicks off.
Start of Book Club: We will start the next book on April 27th (after a one-week break).
Poll duration: The poll will be closed on 2024-03-21T13:00:00Z. You can choose up to 5 options.
Oh, and if somebody could update the thread title to “Now voting!” that would be great. Thanks!
- Fast: クォンタムデビルサーガ アバタールチューナーⅠ [L29]
- Fast: マスカレード・ホテル [L31]
- Fast: 蛇にピアス [L30]
- Fast: 村上海賊の娘 [L40]
- Fast: 砂漠 (さばく a campus life) [L30??]
- Fast: さわらびの譜 [L35??]
- Fast: 風が強く吹いている [L32??]
- Fast: アンダーグラウンド [L33]
- Hard: 檸檬 [L40??]
- Hard: 風立ちぬ [L41]
- Hard: 午後の曳航 [L45]
- Hard: 文字渦 [L30??]
- Hard: 本の読み方 スロー・リーディングの実践 [L36]
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voters
マスカレード・ホテル in the lead so far 
I think it sounds interesting, would have liked to read it but it doesn’t have an ebook version, and I don’t think I’m ready to join the ABC with a physical book yet! So maybe next time! (I mean I know there’s still four days for the poll, but it’s a bit quiet in here 
)
My to read pile is a bit big for me to want to put in another cdjapan order, so I stuck to voting for books I already own this time…
Ditto, I’m on a no-buy this year until I get my physical 積読 under control and there’s actually nothing there I already own 
Just to get us all on the same page: If the current vote of
remains the same until the end, we will be reading 蛇にピアス first as it’s a short read at ~120 pages (i.e. 4 weeks?), followed by アンダーグラウンド.
Of course this also holds true for other combinations if 蛇にピアス comes in in first place or as part of a tie.
Looks like マスカレードホテル is only coming in second place again. 
Well, maybe better luck next time then. 
I feel like it always polls well early, somebody points out that it’s physical book only, and then it slips down the ranking. It’s always going to be a hard slog for a book with no ebook version to win, I think.
Nausicaa did manage to win
True, and I thought about mentioning that - but Nausicaa is also a really famous highly regarded manga, and it still took it forever to actually win a poll. So it’s not impossible, but it is a hard slog.
It might help if you browbeat people into voting for the book. It worked for me. 