My 積ん読 challenge watching the poll:
And the winner is…
ムーミン谷の彗星 / Comet in Moominvalley!
@catwithcookiesandtea As the nominator, would you like to run the book club? If not, I’m happy to run it, so no pressure.
Yayy!! I just got the book yesterday on Bookwalker with a 40% coupon and my leftover coins >:)) When the club starts I’m ready to read!!
Please run it. This is my first time joining an official bookclub. 
I gotchu! I’ll get the home thread up later today.
if you run it… soggy might pass you an extra 
Home thread is up, be sure to vote in the start date poll!
Moomin only has a few weeks left, so we’ll be holding a vote for our next book on May 9th. Feel free to nominate more books before the vote!
Available formats: physical / ebook / audiobook / full furigana
Summary - Japanese
私、宮美（みやび）三風（みふ）。 両親も親戚もいなくって、ひとりぼっちの小学校6年生……だと、12年間ずっと思っていたのに！ なんとある日、四つ子だったことがわかったの！！！！ 顔も声もまったく同じ女の子、 一花ちゃん、二鳥ちゃん、四月ちゃん。 それぞれ別の場所で孤独に育った私たちは、これから四人、一つ屋根の下で暮らすことになった。だけど、四つ子だけの生活は、大混乱！ その上、育ってきた環境の違いが思わぬすれ違いを生んで…？ みんな同じで、みんな違う！ キュートな姉妹生活、始まります！ 第６回角川つばさ文庫小説賞【特別賞】受賞！
Summary - English
I’m Miyabi Mifu.
I don’t have any parents or relatives—I’m a lonely sixth-grade elementary schooler with no family … or at least, that’s what I’d believed for all 12 years of my life!
But then one day, I discovered something unbelievable… I’m actually one of quadruplets!!!
Girls who look and sound exactly like me—Ichika, Nitori, and Shigatsu.
Each of us was raised alone in different places, but now the four of us are going to live together under one roof.
But life with quadruplets? Total chaos!
On top of that, the differences in how we were raised lead to unexpected misunderstandings…?
We’re all the same, yet all different!
A cute sisterly life begins!
Winner of the Special Prize at the 6th Kadokawa Tsubasa Bunko Novel Award!
Reason(s) for nominating:
This review from Biblio on Natively
High interest, low difficulty 
If you like human drama and slice of life this series might be a great pick for you.
We follow 4 girls who were orphaned and separated as babies. When they are 12 years old, they are re-united and start living together - on their own. The books are told from the POV of 宮美(みやび)三風(みふ) the third oldest/youngest? (I can’t rember :D) of the 4.
Each of the girls has had a different upbringing until now, so each comes with her own baggage. In the course of the series we get to know more about their past, what happened to make them orphans, etc. and the girls learn to rely on each other, how to deal with problems and how to be family.
It’s written for children, so the language is not very difficult (and it has full furigana, of course), but the stories are surprisingly interesting. Some of the topics are a lot darker and sader then the cover art suggests. There are some feels to be had.
I listened to the audiobooks, which I can highly recommend. The narrator does a great job.
- I think the drama elements could lead to lively conversations in the book club!
I asked ChatGPT to take a stab at it.
I’m Miyabi Mifu.
I don’t have any parents or relatives—I’m a lonely sixth-grade elementary schooler… or at least, that’s what I’d believed for all 12 years of my life!
But then one day, I discovered something unbelievable… I’m actually one of quadruplets!!!
Girls who look and sound exactly like me—Ichika, Nitori, and Shigatsu.
Each of us was raised alone in different places, but now the four of us are going to live together under one roof.
But life with quadruplets? Total chaos!
On top of that, the differences in how we were raised lead to unexpected misunderstandings…?
We’re all the same, yet all different!
A cute sisterly life begins!
Winner of the Special Prize at the 6th Kadokawa Tsubasa Bunko Novel Award!
Oh, woops, I just copied from Natively 
without realizing that the summary translation was kind of messed up. I’ll switch it out for yours. Thank you!!
Voting time, what a happy time!
You there! Have you cast your vote for the 
Children’s Novel Club yet? Well, now’s your chance!
You will have 
unlimited votes so vote for anything and everything you would like to read. The poll closes PROMPTLY on 2026-05-26T05:00:00Z
Book Poll 3
- となりのふたごは闇使い | The Dark Magic Twins next door
- 紫禁城の秘密のともだち | Friend from the Forbidden City
- オレンジ | orange 1
- バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー | Back to the Future
- 銀色☆フェアリーテイル | Silver Fairytale
- 夏目友人帳 | Natsume’s Book of Friends
- リメンバー・ミー | Remember Me (Disney’s Coco)
- おチビがうちにやってきた! 未来が見える!? | A child came to my house! She can see the future?!
- ルドルフとイッパイアッテナ | Rudolf and Ippai Attena
- 恐怖コレクター | Fear Collector
- 帰命寺横丁の夏 | Kimyouji Yokochou Summer
- 四っ子ぐらし １ | Quadruplet Life
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voters
Entering the final two days of voting, we’ve got a neck-and-neck race between Natsume’s Book of Friends and Kimyouji Yokochou Summer!
Per the club’s tie rules, if both picks tie, Natsume’s Book of Friends will win by default due to being the older nomination (by three days 
).
Whaat!? This is so exciting! Based on early results I thought Kimyouji didn’t have a chance!
The people have spoken! The winner is..
帰命寺横丁の夏 / Kimyouji Yokochou Summer!
Natively link / Nomination Post
@MaraVos as the nominator, are you interested in running the club?
Yes, I’m happy to!! Won’t be able to get to it for a few days since I’m traveling, but sometime next week I’ll get started!
It’s not completely finished yet, but there are polls galore!
I just remembered the lists feature on Natively, so I made a list for our club reads:
It’s a small list at the moment we better keep reading!