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…

I’m still in “only vote for books you already own” mode, but there were three of those so maybe I’ll be lucky :slight_smile:

[image] pm215: maybe I’ll be lucky :slight_smile: So far it looks quite promising, with one of your books being in the #1 spot :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: but to be fair there are three other books in that spot as well :weary_face:

I don’t participate in my current book clubs actively right now (I’m in the constant mode of catching up lately), but I hope I’ll overcome my reading pile before the next book club starts. I liked the last 2 picks very much, and I’m excited to see what’ll come up next.

We have a new winner! It is 国宝（上） :tada: :partying_face: :raising_hands: @Magyarapointe would you like to run this club for us? It should start on November 15th.

Sure ! I’ll have a thread set up later tonight :partying_face:

If you’re looking for an easier pick to read on the side, why not hop over to the Intermediate book club? You can even grab the chance and help choose the next book in our poll :grin: [image] Intermediate Japanese Book Club // Now Voting! // Now Reading: 掏摸(スリ) // Next: 怪人二十…

Hey all, just a quick heads up that I will run the next poll late next week or so, so please get your nominations in before the end of December 10! (I promise I’ll be tolerant regarding timezones :crossed_fingers:) We have plenty of slots for easy and hard books, so don’t hold back and fire away!

天空への回廊 Author: 笹本稜平 [image] Summary ▶ Japanese ▶ English (machine translated) Length: 662 pages Category: Fast Natively link: https://learnnatively.com/book/9d37c1fc26/ Availability Available in ebook and paperback from the usual places. See the Natively page for links Personal Opinion I don’t…

Thanks for the nomination @Escalus ! And without further ado, here is our next 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 …

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