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[Shadowlauch]

@TobiasW

Couldn’t we just have two winners if it wins?

Yeah for sure. It is designated as a short club so if this were to win the second place would also get picked.

@TobiasW

Reading a bilingual graded reader (Japanese Stories for Language Learners) in a beginner book club feels a bit weird…

Oh I did not know it was a bilingual version.

@Akashelia

I don’t know your level so but I feel like I am a true “beginner”. I know N5 grammar, most of N4 and a bit of N3. I can read manga of Yotsuba level, and a bit harder if I’m OK to go very slowly. But long sentences are hard to approach and a real book feels intimidating, I don’t have yet the experience or the stamina to read many long sentences in a row. So based on that I don’t think it can be expected for the BBC to read it all in one week. I wouldn’t want that for sure.

We usually schedule things based on the experience of works we have read in the past. The closest comparison would probably be the short stories of the 小川未明童話集・Ogawa Mimei: Collection of Children’s Stories club.The first story that was read in that club has about the 2/3 of characters as 雪女. So a two week club would probably the furthest it should be stretched.

@javerend

but it is way way different! Not entirely sure what’s going on there, it does also say this was downloaded in 2017, but I doubt it would’ve changed this drastically since then.

If that is the case I would recommend removing the references to the bundled version all together. Maybe only leave it in a detail box with a disclaimer that the text is significantly different.