Bunpro Book club (Intermediate)

Poll is now available at the top of the post! Please vote for the title that you are interested in reading by the end of day, Sunday, 24th of March. I will allow for all timezones to pass through Sunday before locking in the winner :blush:.

Detailed rules etc for the book club will be announced once the book has been decided.

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I’m in too, I hope I commit enough time to be active throughout the read. I don’t really have a preference for a book

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Man y’all have some good suggestions. Didn’t even vote for my own! :laughing:

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Makes sense, I didn’t poke at the innards!! Looking at the unique words yeaaaah it does seem hard (too hard for me at this point!)

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Figured out how to get my kindle to accept JP books and am excited to see the massive number of highlights of words I don’t know.

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Looks like im about to head off to Book Off and pick up my copy of スーパーカブ!

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Voting over! Winner - スーパーカブ
More details to follow soon.

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Hi Everyone,

Make sure you get the correct version of スーパーカブ. There’s a novel, which is what we’re gonna be reading, and there’s also a manga (which we are not reading here).

Also, for those who don’t want to create a Japanese Amazon account, you can purchase this on Book Walker or Book Live. You still have to create an account, but it’s just your email, then they send you a confirmation link where you can add a password. That’s pretty much it. No need to enter a Japanese address.

HTH!

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Wait, there is a tie. both スーパーカブ and 君の名は are 37%.

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In the event of ties we are going to be going with suggestions based on time. More info on this will be available in the official rules that I will be posting a bit later today. We also have a lot more thorough rules for other books going forward as well. Additionally in terms of ties, we may potentially have two simultaneous groups, should there be enough participants to warrant it.

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Official book club rules available for viewing here. Keep in mind that these are rules that have been created based on our best estimate of how book clubs will proceed. Things may change in the future.

I will also be editing the original content of this post to better reflect a long term starting point and guide for users that join this level.

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Bought the first volume! It is even currently on sale on Bookwalker, if someone wants to buy it there.

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Just a heads up regarding Amazon Japan. I signed up a few weeks ago from Australia and there was no requirement for a Japanese address. I’ve had two deliveries since then and all has been well, delivery times have both been 8 days.

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Your suggestion is now in the Advanced book club group. If it somehow gets voted at some point, join in and have a go! :smiley:

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Yay thank you! I’m doing solidly with スーパーカブ (with lots of vocab lookup) so maybe will do Advanced next round to challenge self!!

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I’ve been grinding through it as well and it’s so cool I understand the gist of things even if I am looking up at least one word every sentence. I can tell reading more types of things is going to be something I need to spend a lot of time doing moving forward.

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Same! It’s both forcing me to look up so many words and also slow down in a way I really need when studying, and wanting to know what’s going to happen next is great motivation?

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Very interesting to see book clubs pop up!

I might join in the future if the book catches my interest.

There’s nothing worse than trying to read something in a difficult language you are learning if you are not interested/invested in the text :sweat_smile:

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Super Cub thread discussion now live. From now, please move all Super Cub related discussion here -

スーパーカブ discussion (Intermediate) April 2024

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Hi!

I just wanted to put in a new suggestion before I forget: 「時をかける少女」 by 筒井 康隆. I guess this might be in the upper intermediate level.

In fact, I would recommend any book by Tsutsui.

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