Welcome to the Sayaka Murata Book Club! This book club is dedicated to the works of Sayaka Murata (surprise!). Why a whole book club for one author? Because her writing is very suitable for intermediate level Japanese reading. Her use of language is straightforward, without flowery vocabulary or cr…

[image] Myria: book is pretty expensive on bookwalker compared to 授乳 Wow, that’s weird. It’s about the same on Amazon. [image] NicoleIsEnough: probably because they are newer. I don’t think that’s necessarily the case. Konbini Ningen is half a year younger than コーヒーが冷めないうちに and it’s j…

[image] Phryne: We’re going to be reading all of them eventually anyway, so… Actually, this one is a problem for me :sweat_smile: My original plan was to start Murata Marathon on my own sometime Fall/Winter 2021 and continue into 2022 and hopefully finishing in 2022. Now, this book club will…

Maybe the poll gives a good indication? You could start with the ones at the bottom?

Yep, that’s my plan for now. But I saw favorites changing places in the consecutive “main” book clubs polls, so there’s still some risk :wink:

There we have it. I have closed the poll. Looks like we’re reading 授乳 next! Will make a home thread and do some proselytising in the next few days :grin:

Here it is, get votin’ :grin: [image] 授乳 breast_feeding Book Club Book Clubs Welcome to the 授乳 Book Club! [7168UqAIjgL] This is part of the Sayaka Murata Book Club . Where to purchase Digital: Amazon · Bookwalker · Kobo Physical: Amazon · CDJapan Schedule …

I knew I shouldn’t buy 授乳 until the book club starts. They have a point back sale now on Amazon.jp, they give back 30%. Not as good as the 50% a few months ago, but still. Books in the sale: 消滅世界, 殺人出産 (if someone hasn’t bought it yet), 授乳, 星が吸う水, マウス. Apparently it started a week ago, and it’s u…

Thanks! I bought the lot. Guess I know which books I’ll be voting for the next time round :stuck_out_tongue:

Excellent! Thanks for the info :slight_smile: EDIT: Oh, is this on Kindle? Bookwalker does not seem to have them on sale. :cry:

Sorry, I edited my original post not to confuse more people.

Sayaka Murata Book Club

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Phryne June 25, 2021, 6:19pm 19

Here it is, get votin’

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