Intermediate Japanese Book Club Welcome to our 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 keep mo…

Cool thanks, I’ve added it to the post :slight_smile: I think I’m happy I read it on Aozora because it’s easy to copy / paste the text, use Yomichan etc, but I can see why it can be nice to read it on Bookwalker for people having all their books over there or for the vertical reading :slight_smile:

[image] soggyboy: No love for the kittyboy book? ニャンゴ is used to struggle. It’s not an easy life, being a pirate adventurer cat. But I’m happy to see that there is some interest at least! :grinning_cat_with_smiling_eyes:

I happen to have picked up 西の魔女が死んだ for cheap somewhere, but haven’t read it yet. I won’t skew the vote (have a bunch of other books on my to-read list), but I’ll keep an eye out if it wins. :slight_smile:

I was trying to avoid temptation, but … free audiobook … free e-book … a classic … I give up! If this wins I’m gonna have to give it a go. :blush:

[image] mitrac: [image] Domjcw: There is an online book club by the UK Japan Society in November this year - including Yoko Ogawa. I’m hoping that we will have maybe read the book by then! wow, that is a banger of a special feature for a book club! In early counting, it doesn’t look as…

I forgot to post the epub I found for those who want to be able to load it on e-readers with proper formatting: [image] Kurotokage to Kaijin Nijuumensou ( Kadoka - Edogawa Ranpo.epub - Shared... Keep all your files safe, access them on any device you own and share with just the right …

[image] Domjcw: If it doesn’t win, I’ll potentially read it anyway and run an informal club so that I can ‘meet’ my 推しの作家 for the November event Shame there’s so little interest for the other 小川 in the list. Personally, I think that one sounds even more interesting.

Well, we can add it to the list for an 小川洋子 off shoot club. I’m keen to read the one I have nominated next, but also thinking of running a re-read club for 博士の愛した数式. And then there is ホテルアイリス, which looks good in a somewhat disturbing way… (oh, and 密やかな結晶)

I have been thinking about an 小川洋子 book club for some time now… but in all honesty I would prefer it to be on Natively instead of here :sweat_smile: The chances of finding like-minded people feels much higher to me over there. What do you think?

[image] NicoleIsEnough: 怪人二十面相 I watched an anime a couple years ago called 二十面相の娘. I didn’t realize it was actually based on an existing work. :sweat_smile:

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I forgot to post the epub I found for those who want to be able to load it on e-readers with proper formatting:

Note that it contains two stories.

EDIT: just noticed that the link was broken, it’s fixed now. Note that there are two novels in this edition, we’re reading the 2nd one.

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