Office worker Yoshida has been crushing on his coworker, Airi Gotou, for five years. Despite finally scoring a date with her, his confession is promptly rejected. Drunk and disappointed, he stumbles home, only to find a high school girl sitting on the side of the road. The girl, needing a place to stay the night, attempts to seduce Yoshida. Despite rejecting her advances, he nevertheless invites her into his apartment.
The next morning, the girl, introducing herself as Sayu Ogiwara, reveals that she has run away from Hokkaido all the way to Tokyo. During her six-month spree, she continually traded sexual favors for a roof over her head. Yoshida, however, remains unswayed by her seduction. Instead, he has her do a different kind of work—one that entails washing dishes and doing laundry. And so, a touching relationship between a heartbroken adult and a runaway high school girl begins.
Content warnings if known
None that I know of.
Why are you nominating this book: I’ve read a few volumes of this a while back and would like to read it again to reinforce the new words I learned. It’s a very forgiving read and good practice for more advanced material in other novels. Also, it’s just chill and a fun read.
Alrighty, it’s poll time! I’m allowing up to four choices for no reason but arbitrary ones; if the club continues and we get more nominations I can easily bump it up to five. Nomination List is here; as mentioned in the top post (I might need to make it more visible…), books with no votes will get cut until we do another couple rounds of voting. The poll will automatically close next week June 16th, 00:00 UTC.
Anywho, the contenders:
Which should be our first book?
本好きの下剋上~司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません~第一部
やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。
異世界のんびり農家
この素晴らしい世界に祝福を!
ソードアート・オンライン プログレッシブ
コップクラフト
幻獣調査員
旅行鞄をしまえる日
青春ブタ野郎はバニーガール先輩の夢を見ない
妖怪アパートの幽雅な日常
博多豚骨ラーメンズ
ひげを剃る。そして女子高生を拾う。
0voters
Since this is our first book, let’s set another poll for starting date:
Has this been shouted out on the WK forums btw (someone may have already and I just missed it)? I suspect there’s people in the BBC, IBC, and ABC who would be interested in this given the difficulty range here is fairly wide.
Ah, no, not too my knowledge. What would be the best place(s) there to advertise? The individual clubs?
Idk if the BBC would be interested, would they? I haven’t taken part in their book selection before, granted, but I would’ve thought that IBC would be the earliest users would want to tackle LNs.
Tbh I’m not sure how beginner the beginner book club is, I kind of assumed they were somewhere in the 20s as there is also a ABBC (absolute beginner book club). But yeah - in the past I’ve done quick announcements in the IBC and the ABC when the Mystery Book Club is voting and no one has minded so far as I know and we’ve had quite a few people join this way.
Nice idea to advertise in the WK forums as well. I’m really torn as both the IBC and IBC primer are starting soon (and I’ll participate in those), but I’d also like to join the light novel book club… I might as well give it a try, or keep an eye for future editions.
Man, it’s been a really close battle between コップクラフト and 本好き for a while now; I’ve been keeping an eye on them and they’ve basically been flip-flopping daily. I’m glad to see we’ll likely end up with no cuts as well; we’ve gotten a lot of voters!
It looks like there’s enough votes for each of the top two choices (without much overlap) that they could each be a book club, would it be an option to have two going at once if someone volunteered to lead the additional one? Definitely understand if that’s too much going on at once!
The usual M.O. is “good luck in the next voting round” to the second-place winner (unless one of the top two is a really short manga or something), but I don’t see any harm in a poll to hear people’s thoughts for the idea!
Would you be interested in having two novels run concurrently?
Yes
No
No opinion
0voters
I think the usual reasoning is that a) it’s a lot of work, and b) you might unintentionally split your reader base, leading to lower numbers of participants all around. I’d like to hear people’s thoughts, though; if there’s demand, it could be an interesting experiment to try.
until we do another couple rounds of voting. The poll will automatically close next week June 16th, 00:00 UTC.