๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Korean Fiction Book Club ๐Ÿ“– Starting ๊ธฐ์–ต์ˆ ์‚ฌ 1 on April 7! ๐Ÿ“š

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Book: ๋œป๋ฐ–์˜ ๊ณ„์ ˆ | L26
Genre: Young Adult
Length: 280 pages
Is there an ebook available?: Yes; also an audiobook

Summary - Korean

๊ณ 2 ๋ฐ˜์œคํ™˜์€ ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ๊ณผ ์ €๋… ์•„๋ฅด๋ฐ”์ดํŠธ๋กœ ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ๋Š” ์ž ๋งŒ ์ž๋Š” ์ƒํ™œ์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์™€๋„ ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ณต๋ถ€์—๋„ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ์—†๋‹ค. ์–ด๋А ๋‚  ๋ฐ˜์—์„œ ์™•๋”ฐ๋กœ ํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ์œคํ™˜์ด ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ํŽธ์˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐพ์•„์™€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์ž๋Š” ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์œคํ™˜์€ 1์ดˆ์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๋„ ์—†์ด ๊ฑฐ์ ˆํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋ฃจ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•œ ํ‘œ์ •์œผ๋กœ ํŽธ์˜์ ์„ ๋‚˜์„ ๋‹ค. ๋ฉฐ์น  ๋’ค ๋ณต๋„์—์„œ ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฃจ์™€ ํ•œ ์—ฌ์ž ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ๋‹คํˆฌ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๊ณง ๋‚˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด โ€œ์ข€ ๊บผ์ ธ๋ผ. ๊ธฐ์ƒ์ถฉ์ด์•ผ?โ€๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์นœ ๋ง์ด ๋“ค๋ ค์˜จ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ํ›„ ๋‚˜๋ฃจ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์—…์—๋„ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ •๋ง๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ ธ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋Š”๋ฐโ€ฆโ€ฆ.

Summary - English

High school sophomore Ban Yoon-hwan works part-time at dawn and dusk and sleeps at school. He does not talk to anyone and is not interested in studying. One day, Jinaru, who is known as an outcast in his class, visits the convenience store where Yoon-hwan works and suggests that they become friends. Yoon-hwan refuses without a second thought, and Naru leaves the convenience store with an expression on his face that seems to have expected it. A few days later, Jinaru hears a girl arguing with Naru in the hallway, and immediately tells Naru, โ€œGet out of here. A harsh voice is heard saying, โ€œAre you a parasite?โ€ After that, Naru does not come to class and really disappearsโ€ฆ โ€ฆ .

Why are you nominating this book: It seems like it might be a mystery and coming of age story, so it should be a similar level of difficulty to other things the club has read. Also, it has an audiobook on Storytel.

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Itโ€™s time to vote for the next book we read! :slightly_smiling_face:

We have two options and Iโ€™ll leave the poll open until Dec 31st so we can get started in January.

What should we read?

  • ๋„ˆ๋งŒ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋Š” ์ง„์‹ค
  • ๋œป๋นก์˜ ๊ณ„์ ˆ
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When should we start?

  • Jan 6
  • Jan 13
  • Jan 20
  • Jan 27
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The poll is closed and it looks like we want to read ๋œป๋นก์˜ ๊ณ„์ ˆ starting next Monday in the 6th. :+1:t2: Iโ€™ll get a new thread with a schedule set up in the next few days to have it ready to go!

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Typo here? Should the second syllable (?) have only one upside-down A? (Sorry, I was going to add this to the book club list and couldnโ€™t figure out for the life of me why I couldnโ€™t find it in Nativelyโ€™s search.)

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lol I was trying to figure out what you meant with upside-down A for a minute there :joy: thatโ€™s so funny. It is a typo, shame on me as a Korean learner for spelling a basic word wrong hahaha. It is ๋œป๋ฐ–์˜ ๊ณ„์ ˆ :grin:

To try and defend my honor it would be pronounced with ใ…ƒ not ใ…‚ even though itโ€™s spelled that way, but it doesnโ€™t make up for mixing up where the double consonant is and not having ใ„ฒ :rofl:

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Oooh, I missed that as well. :rofl:

Sorry, I wasnโ€™t sure how else to specify that particular radical part. Glad you caught my meaning, though!

Iโ€™m always impressed with this; Japanese learners have it easy(er) in terms of pronunciation matching spelling, for sure.

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:joy::joy::joy: Haha no worries, thanks for catching it

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Hi everyone, we now have a new home thread for our upcoming book club pick here:

See you there!

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I made a list for our past reads, so we (and newer people as well) can look back on those books.

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Wow, appreciate you putting this together! Iโ€™ll link it in the main post. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Might be interesting to link our past nominations as well

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Appreciated :slightly_smiling_face: also gave the first post a bit of much needed cleanupโ€ฆ

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Hopefully weโ€™ll have more Korean learners joining Natively and the book club as well in the future

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Agree! And more book clubs, both formal and informal

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Hello everyone!

Just wanted to gauge interest on another doing another round of book club:

  • Yes, letโ€™s start right away!
  • Yes, but I need a break (leave a comment)
  • No, I wonโ€™t be joining
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I might join depending on the level of the book! And if I canโ€™t read this next book then Iโ€™ll definitely join for the next one, thatโ€™ll leave me plenty of time to get my reading level up :blush:

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Weโ€™d love to have you! :blush: What level are you reading up to these days for reference? Since the club is just for fiction in general, weโ€™ve never had any limitationsโ€ฆbut it may be an idea to do one round at a lower level to bring more people on board to level up together :thinking::muscle:

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Iโ€™m just recently venturing into level 21, reading ์ด์ƒํ•œ ๊ณผ์ž ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ์ „์ฒœ๋‹น, but itโ€™s going fairly well, and I seem to be going faster than the book club went. So I think I could go as high as level 23 and still be able to keep up.
If it can help bring more people onboard - great! But I realise that lvl 23 is still fairly low and there may not be much diversity in the books, so I donโ€™t want to keep you from reading something more interesting.

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I personally wouldnโ€™t mind something lower if it meant more people join in - the more the merrier! Worst case if people arenโ€™t interested, a second book club could be set up.

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Great! :grin: letโ€™s leave the nominations open to all levels and see if thereโ€™s something in the lowest 20s then.
Iโ€™ll vote yes on participation.

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