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…

I may not be able to get the ebook since my Amazon japan seems to be blocked now. Plus I am quite behind on the current book club book, so it doesn’t make sense to delay the start of the next book on my account.

[image] TobiasW: Amongst other lovely entries you might also find a certain cat adventurer book in there, also nominated by yours truly! So if any of you are still interested in reading it soon despite it not winning here… :slight_smile: And it won! I’d love to see some of you over there! …

I voted for it because it looks cute and fun - but it may be above my pay grade for now. I literally just finished my first novel (kikis) and it took me forever haha. Thanks for the heads up though!

The long two weeks interval between the preceding and the new IBC-book is finally over. We start the new book now! (Can someone please change the thread title here? Thanks) Welcome to the new IBC book! [image] Week 1: お探し物は図書室まで booksopen_book (Intermediate Book Club) Book …

I have somehow ended up reading both. I do not the time or the ability to do this technically. Edited for typo.

Hey! I’ve made a book club for lower level children’s novels, if anyone would like to check that out: [image] Children's Novel Club // Reading Now: Ghost Story in the Library 図書室の怪談 Book Clubs Welcome to the Children’s Novel Club! Now reading: [図書室の怪談] Home …

Hello all, the current book will be over Real Soon Now :tada: ok not really but in a few weeks… Therefore, we will run the poll for our next pick from Thursday Sept 4th, and if you’d like to nominate something new, then NOW is the time! We currently have 11 nominations, and we have space for 9 mo…

This is not a new nomination, but a plug for the book I nominated last time… [8a97bad51c8f8447d331caad1b4cb22b5a4e31b8] There are a couple of us (but only a couple) who have been reading this over on Natively. I think this would be perfect for the IBC. The story is really engaging, amusing, whim…

To all IBC members living near Munich: The Munich Film Museum is showing 6 films by Shinji Sōmai, in subtitled original versions. One of those is Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981), which the IBC read in 2024. [image] セーラー服と機関銃🏫hibiscus Book Club (Intermediate Book Club) ・ […

We got no new nominations this time, so let’s dive into The Poll :grin: Have a look at the List of Proposed Books section in the first post for details on each book. Every book has a Natively level associated with it which is annotated in the poll ( this Natively list contains all nominated books if…

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Hey! I’ve made a book club for lower level children’s novels, if anyone would like to check that out:

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