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Nomination post

:jp: Natively page: 乙嫁語り 1 | L24
:gb: A bride’s story
:de: A young bride’s story
:kr: 신부 이야기
:es: Otoyomegatari

Summary - Japanese

第1巻の内容紹介: 美貌の娘・アミル（20歳）が嫁いだ相手は、若干12歳の少年・カルルク。遊牧民と定住民、８歳の年の差を越えて、ふたりは結ばれるのか……？ 『エマ』で19世紀末の英国を活写した森薫の最新作はシルクロードの生活文化。馬の背に乗り弓を構え、悠久の大地に生きるキャラクターたちの物語！

Summary - English

Volume 1: Amir (20), a beautiful girl, marries a 12-year-old boy named Karruk. Will the nomad and the settler, overcoming an age difference of eight years, be able to get married? Kaoru Mori, who depicted late 19th century England in “Emma,” depicts the culture of life on the Silk Road in her latest work. Riding on the back of a horse and holding a bow, this is a story of characters living in the land of eternity!

Reading Schedule

My current plan is to strart with one chapter in the first week and then possibly increase. We will use a single thread for all weeks.

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Discussion Guidelines

  • Spoilers should always be hidden using spoiler blur.
  • When discussing a specific section, please mention where you are in the book, ideally by chapter so people reading different versions have a clear point of reference.
  • Feel free to read ahead if it’s exciting, but please refrain from spoiling ahead of the appropriate week.
  • If you have a question about grammar, vocab, cultural things, etc - ask! That’s a welcome part of the discussion too, and other readers will be happy to help.
Will you be reading along when the club starts?
  • Yes :raising_hand_woman:
  • No :no_entry_sign:
  • Maybe :thinking:
  • I’ll be reading, but at my own pace :open_book: :spiral_calendar:
  • I’m just here for the discussion :popcorn:
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What type of media will you be consuming the book as?
  • Physical
  • eBook
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What language will you be rading in
  • :jp: Japanese
  • :gb: English
  • :kr: Korean
  • :es: Spanish
  • :de: German
  • other (comment)
0 voters
When shall we start
  • 2025-07-18T22:00:00Z (this weekend)
  • 2025-07-25T22:00:00Z (weekend in 1 week)
  • 2025-08-01T22:00:00Z (weekend in 2 week)
  • Other (comment)
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I own physically and have read volumes 1 to 13 in German and volumes 9, 14, 15 in Japanese. (It’s one of four series I own in German, not in Japanese)

When I nominated this series I had not yet read the Japanese volumes and I saw it as an opportunity to get to know the vocabulary, character names etc in Japanese. I’ve since read the Japanese volumes, so my interest in this BC is a bit lowered.

I sometimes think about selling the German volumes and rebuying it in Japanese. But for this BC I’ll just buy the first volume digitally. It’s very pretty, though. So you might want to buy it physically.

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Sure, make me start another book club why don’t you… Which is to say: I already own some of the volumes, and have been interested in reading. So I guess I’ll join

Is there an intended schedule pacing, or are you waiting till now people have signed up to determine?

Btw the Korean title is 신부 이야기 and Spanish is Otoyomegatari

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I like 1 chapter per week for its simplicity. But I’m happy with whatever. My plan was to start with one chapter at first. And then people can see how fast they can read a chapter and we will probably have a vote.

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I closed the poll. We will start 2025-08-01T22:00:00Z.

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