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We already have so many good nominations; I feel like the chances of anything else I nominate getting picked in the next five years becomes more and more miniscule as the options pile up. @.@
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so true 
and I still have 1 more I want to nominate later 
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Subject: History
Available formats: physical / ebook
Content warnings
Not aware of any but it does deal with history so may have some unsettling content, it’s for children though.
Reason(s) for nominating: I thought it would be interesting to read and get to know some Japanese history. Also really wanted to learn about Himiko and Yamatai. There is a second book as well, that covers from where this one finishes until a few years ago.
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Let’s Vote!
What should we read? 
猫の浮世絵 「江戸の猫ぐらし」 | L25?? (Art History, Culture)
小学館世界J文学館 古事記 | L30?? (Culture)
カメの甲羅はあばら骨 ~人体で表す動物図鑑~ | L39?? (Animal Science)
世界のニュースを日本人は何も知らない | L31 (Politics with some history)
なぜ働いていると本が読めなくなるのか | L36 (History, Sociology)
吉田の日々赤裸々。 『ファイナルファンタジーXIV』はなぜ新生できたのか | L36 (Republished magazine column stories written by a guy having to lead building a major MMO from the ground up.)
カラー版 忘れてしまった高校の生物を復習する本 | L28?? (Life Sciences)
バカの壁 | L30?? (Sociology, Self-help)
日本語の大疑問 眠れなくなるほど面白い ことばの世界 幻冬舎新書 | L30?? (Linguistics)
知られざる北斎 | L36?? (Art History, Japanese History, Economics)
「アニメ評論家」宣言 | L36?? (Anime history)
台所から北京が見える ――36歳から始めた私の中国語 | L34 (Memoir)
売春島~「最後の桃源郷」渡鹿野島ルポ~ | L30?? (Investigative journalism, history)
日本人の心がわかる日本語 | L25 (History, Culture, Linguistics)
日本人の知らない日本語 1 なるほど~×爆笑!の日本語“再発見”コミックエッセイ | L28 (Linguistics, Manga Essay)
五体不満足 | L29 (Memoir, Disability, Society)
イコ トラベリング 1948- | L28 (Autobiographical novel)
フェルマーの最終定理 | L28 (Mathematics, History)
ナオキマンのヤバい世界の秘密 | L34?? (Mysterious aspects of human history)
そうなんだ!日本の歴史のお話 古代~室町時代編 | L22?? (History)
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Wow, that was scary. I was about to start clicking on my choices when the page suddenly shifted and the poll disappeared, haha.
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sorry about that lol, wanted to make the pictures smaller
edit: I’m a dumbass so making some changes again lol
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I’m done! you can vote now!! sorry about the mess!
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No worries~
And man, I need to whittle down from 12 picks to 5… how to choose…
Edit: okay, I’ve done the impossible. Read curious what our first pick will end up being.
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Lots of things I really want to read but will be too hard for me. I still had trouble voting just keeping it boxed to books that I’d be able to read
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I voted only for things I have so I know I can participate without having an excuse to buy more books 
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I wish to join you guys but it seems like the one book I’ve already read is gonna win this poll 
well it was good maybe i will go through it again
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Voting is open another 7 days. The leader very well might change (at least that happens a lot in other clubs I’ve been in)
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Yeah, there’s a 3-way tie at the moment, so the winner’s by no way decided.
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We have a non-tie winner!!!
日本人の心がわかる日本語 | L25 is the first pick of the club!!!
We’ll start on the 15th of December (let me know if you need more time though), in the meanwhile I’ll update with a thread and timetable when I can (the timetable might take a while though)
please be on the look out for a pace poll I will create over at the thread when I create it!
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Hmm, just noticed this is 1900 yen for 200 pages… It’s on “backorder, usually ships in 5-10 days” status at cdjapan, which puts it a bit uncertain whether it would arrive before the holidays. I might come back to this next year, but I have perhaps overextended myself on book clubs already so an expensive backordered book might be one to skip :-/
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I’m probably not going to start until January, after the Aozora advent is over. Don’t let me be a deterrent to starting on the 15th, though!
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Ditto for me, I’ll join in January but imagine I’ll be able to catch up fine with just two weeks backlog
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I’m tempted to join the others and just start in January. I’ve been pretty slammed with books lately, and it’d be nice to go into December knowing I didn’t have another one waiting for me quite yet.
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