Book Club in progress! Now reading Book 1.
Book 1 chapter threads and schedule for future threads
Book One Chapter 1: 青豆:見かけにだまされないように Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Book One Chapter 2: 天吾:ちょっとした別のアイデア Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Book One Chapter 3: 青豆:変更されたいくつかの事実 Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Book One Chapter 4: 天吾:あなたがそれを望むのであれば Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Book One Chapter 5: 青豆:専門的な技能と訓練が必要とされる職業 Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Book One Chapter 6: 天吾:我々はかなり遠くまで行くのだろうか? Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Book One Chapter 7: 青豆:蝶を起こさないようにとても静かに Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Book One Chapter 8: 天吾:知らないところに行って 知らない誰かに会うHaruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Book One Chapter 9: 青豆:風景が変わり、ルールが変わった Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Book One Chapter 10: 天吾:本物の血が流れる実物の革命 Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Book One Chapter 11: 青豆:肉体こそが人間にとっての神殿である Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Book One Chapter 12: 天吾:あなたの王国が私たちにもたらされますように Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
I’ll add dates for Book 1 part 2 later on! We might want to do a short break between books, so we can catch up on all the reading we didn’t do over the holidays.
Thought I’d bite the bullet and just get a thread going. I’ve had the book for two years, now, and read a couple chapters. But I never managed to get very far, and my Japanese teacher keeps mentioning to other students that “Saida is reading Murakami”. And I always have to respond I’m really not. So let’s read together, and hopefully we can help each other get through this! I’m a book club virgin, so to speak, and very open to suggestions and improvements!
Here are a couple tags for people who have expressed interest in the last 24 hours: @Belerith @morteasd @NicoleRauch @Kyayna.
Other people, free to join! I think one issue with this book is availability? It’s not on any ebook platforms asfar as I know, so might be hard to come by in time, if you don’t happen to have it already. Thanks to @rwesterhof for providing the ISBN numbers!
1Q84 ISBN-13 | hardcover | paperback |
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1 | 978-4103534228 | part 1: 978-4101001593, part 2: 978-4101001609 |
2 | 978-4103534235 | part 3: 978-4101001616, part 4: 978-4101001623 |
3 | 978-4103534259 | part 5: 978-4101001630, part 6: 978-4101001647 |
Things to figure out before starting:
- Timing. When do we start?
I’ll start a reading thread in the last weekend of July - Pace. How do we break up the book, and how much time do we get to finish each section?
Two weeks per chapter - Resources. Will we start a wordlist? In Excel? Google sheets?
Probably not necessary/feasible - Do we want to do live readings on Discord?
Not decided yet - Probably some more important stuff I can’t think of.
Poll time!
- Will try my best to read along every step of the way
- Will read at my own pace
- Have already read the book, will try my best not to spoil anything
- Want to read along, but how long does it take to get the book shipped to my front door?
- Just here for the discussion, not the reading
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