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At this price it will surely win next time right?
…right??
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Hey, my suggestion, 午后の欠伸 is still going strong ! Maybe one day I’ll give it another push with some nice excerpts 
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Hey everyone! Join in for Week 1 of the gorgeous new club
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Do we have a rule against repeat suggestions? I mean, not ones that got tossed out from no votes, but like for instance 時をかける少女. Could I for example suggest that for the next book club, or is the hope that people will simply go back and use the original forum/make an informal club? (Hypothetical question, not necessarily wanting to re-nominate that particular book)
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Repeat nominations aren’t forbidden, just worth thinking about why they might get different results another time.
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Ah hah, thanks! @araigoshi I was thinking that for books that were read in our club back in like 2018, there’s maybe a lot of newer members that may want to read those books. Lots of the earlier nominations were pretty popular titles.
Actually, now that I’m looking, I see there was a repeat thread for Kiki’s Delivery Service back in 2020! Instead of nominating then, maybe if there’s enough interest, a new repeat thread could be made? I’d personally love to read Kiki’s Delivery Service, and there’s been a good 5 year gap. Are there any particular rules about repeat threads, or is it just if there’s interest + someone takes charge, it’s free game?
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Oh, I thought you were talking about stuff that failed to get selected.
Your options are:
- Nominate it in the club and hope it wins, same as any other book.
- Start your own ad hoc club for the book and hope people join in. The shared book clubs are here because they’re the easiest way to read with a group, but anyone can start a club on the forum at any time for anything other than things which would break the forum rules (e.g. hentai)
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it’s a real shame books about different shapes, kanji variants (変体) aren’t allowed…and bummer was thinking some aircraft formations might be interesting (編隊)
fun with kanji 
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That’s one version! There seems to be two versions, the one you linked with a few furigana, and the Kadokawa version which is no furigana at all (I don’t think there seems to be a version with full furigana however). Tofugu has a nice article on it.
But yes, it sounds fun!! I’ll make a post and see if I can drum up interest in a repeat book reading club for it.
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I think a classic like Kiki is always a good call for a reread group if you can drum up interest. I think the original read with the beginner book club was late 2017 with a reread group in 2020. There was also a group reading this book on Natively recently.
I think Girl’s Last Tour (少女終末旅行) is another one that would be good for a reread group at some point. Much less famous than Kiki though.
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I read Kiki with the original group and it was a great learning experience. It was really tough for me (I’d only read two volumes of Yotsuba when we started Kiki), but it was still worth it. I didn’t love the book because I tend to get bored of episodic stories, but it was good for what it was.
Regarding 時をかける少女 (cc @gollorien), I would recommend against it. Frankly it’s just not good and if anyone goes into the reading expected something like the anime film they’ll be disappointed.
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interesting! I’ve never seen the movie, so I don’t have any thoughts on how the book compares. I’m reading it alone, so I probably won’t try to get a reading group for it. I’m a few chapters in, maybe half way? I like it fine, maybe it’s a little “Kazuko did this, and then this happened, and then XYZ happened.” What did you not like about it?
Yeah, I started being interested in a Kiki re-read because I noticed a teacher on Italki had a book reading course coming up late July/early August. Based on her Youtube video samples, she seems like a teacher I’d enjoy having. Generally I don’t sign up for those classes on Italki because more often than not they get cancelled (none or only one person signs up). I kinda thought at $80, it might be more worth it to do a re-read club on WK forums, but also I do see someone is signed up for the course now so it will definitely happen if I sign up (plus I get to work on listening/speaking skills at the same time)… decisions decisions.
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there is/was a jp bookclub discord server (which was for out-load reading)
that I haven’t really used much… but it may be something to consider
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Regarding 時をかける少女? I read it like 6 years ago so I can’t say in detail. Mostly I was just bored and didn’t think the ending was satisfying.
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Shoot. I’m not on Natively so I didn’t see that. Ah well, by the time the book club got started (if it gets started at all), their club will have finished so at least it’s not concurrent.
Anyway, I’ve made a thread to gauge interest in a Kiki’s Delivery Service read here. I won’t post in this thread anymore to avoid spamming. 
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Oh yeah. 時をかける少女 was a huge disappointment for me as well. There is just nothing interesting in it, unless you never heard of science fiction before and the concept of time travel alone is totally new to you and blows your mind in itself.
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If you go into it expecting something like the 1983 live-action film, though… 
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Reminds me of reading The Time Machine. My copy was like 120 pages long, partly from 1800s novels being shorter and partly from reading a “classics” edition that adopted the “use size 6 font to save on paper and ink costs” strategy.
Anyway, 10 of those pages had to explain what a time machine is. Modern sci-fi authors have it so easy, just have to invoke time travel and everyone understands what that means lol.
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I’d participate in a 少女終末旅行 reread 
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