Some Book Recommendations with Reading Samples

Belerith · November 24, 2019, 9:16pm

You’re welcome. Personally not a big fan of uninvited spoilers. Unless you want some?

I’ll link you the nomination post in the intermediate book club thread. It has the Japanese and English summaries as well as sample pages so you can see the writing style for yourself.

Intermediate Japanese Book Club // Now Reading: あなたも殺人犯になれる！ Book Clubs

I would like to read this book in the near future, and so I figured I might as well suggest it for the book club キッチン This book actually contains the novel キッチン and the novella ムーンライト・シャドウ. I would only propose the first story here, and we can decide later whether we want to read the second story as well. Summary
Japanese
キッチン両親と祖父を早くに亡くし、祖母と暮らしてきた大学生・桜井みかげだが、その祖母さえも亡くしてしまい、天涯孤独の身となる。ある時、同じ大学の学生で、祖母の行きつけの花屋でアルバイトしている田辺雄一に声をかけられ、雄一宅に居候することとなる。雄一はオカマバーを経営する母・えり子（実は父・雄司）と2人暮らしである。みかげは田辺…