I appreciate the offer but I’ve never participated in a book club, even less running one, and my shifts are rotating so they are terrible to make any sort of weekly post in a timely manner.
Probably after I participate in one I’ll feel more confident how it works for the next time.
I can help try sync progress between editions for deciding weekly deadlines since I have all 3 of them. Although Tsubasa Bunko being a different author, there’s potential problems there. (Maybe run a poll after the winner is decided?)
And there’s the fact that Honsuki is really close… Just one vote away.
I don’t know how you can run a book club with effectively two books. It’ll be hard to ask grammar/sentence questions and it’s possible the plot will differ in places. Ideally only one version would have been nominated (hindsight and all that) since it’s possible not everyone would have still voted for it. Someone should probably also ask Brandon to split the entries on Natively since they are so different.
Was curious myself about the differences and found this answer on Chiebukuro. According to the writer, it seems (if I understand correctly) that the Tsubasa Bunko one is a straight up adaptation of the movie, while the Kadokawa Bunko one expands more on some details and characters’ thought processes.
In the event Summer Wars is selected, I would support holding a run-off vote to select a version for the book club to go with.
No problem at all! Just wanted to check ahead of time.
Anyhow, it looks like a vote for which edition is read would be ideal, the versions being as different as they are. I’ll also put up a formal vote on how many books we want to cut per voting cycle as well once the vote’s ended.
Uff, already tried reading Honzuki when WK club picked it, but I just disliked the main character too much . Probably skipping this one. I think it also has a bit too much filler for me.
I am also planning to listen along! I have read both the webnovel and published light novel, so time to listen to it instead.
I’m doing that right now with cop craft and I do enjoy it. (It does feel harder than reading, though, but that may be because I neither pause nor go back).
Congrats to 本好き! Here’s a repost of the upcoming schedule:
So this was brought up in the discussion for Summer Wars, but it seems relevant here as well: apparently 本好き does have an all-furigana version, but the pacing may be different than the “standard” book. Can anyone speak to that? Is it worth taking into consideration when planning the schedule? How far does the furigana version diverge?
And on to club business: the business of cutting nominations after each poll. There’s been some talk of increasing the number of cuts, mostly to keep nominations from getting stale. So here’s your poll to have your voice heard!
How many books should we cut from the nomination pool after each vote?
Only books that receive no votes
The lowest-voted 3 books
The lowest-voted 5 books
The lowest-voted 7 books
The lowest-voted 8 books
The lowest-voted 9 books
The lowest-voted 10 books
Some other qualifier (leave a post explaning what)
This is probably more relevant for the series as a whole or later volumes. Maybe someone who has actually read the books can elaborate, but:
I remember hearing that some of the volumes have a lot of slice of life like just cooking for half a book, which doesn’t have a lot to do with the plot.
I’ll join the discussion but I’ll probably not read along. It would be my third go as I’ve already read it, and I have listened to the full audiobook, it might be too much 本好き to handle.
I think this was specially bad on Volume 2. The making of something goes into too much detail.
Also I have edited my nomination of Summer Wars, so for next rounds does not have the unintentional misleading information that was not detecting that the Tsubasa Bunko was a completely different book by another author, and just the setting was the same.
. Probably skipping this one. I think it also has a bit too much filler for me.
Here’s a repost of the upcoming schedule: