[Poll] Korean Book Clubs

Korean Reading Book Clubs
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-I just bought a copy of 책벌레의 하극상 제1부 and I’ll give it a try! I don’t speak any Japanese and somehow I couldn’t find the link to the book club.

-Wait, 이상한 과가 가게 has audio books? Ooh where are they sold?

-Wait, there’s going to be a video game of 이상한 과가 가게?? Ooh when?

(I haven’t actually read a lot of books in Korean, but I’ve read three and a half of the 이상한 과가 가게 series. Honestly it’s such a struggle to find books of the right difficulty level. These are just about right, as long as I make good friends with the dictionary. They’re fun too!)

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\o/ Woo-hoo!

Hasn’t been created yet! I’ll set it up once the current LN is done! I’ll tag all my Korean friends here just in case, too. :slight_smile:

Looks like a good thing for @bibliothecary to add to the book page. :eyes: Just since they seem to know.

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Probably’ll be Japanese-only for now, but you never know! Might be worth keeping an eye on it!

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Thanks, I bookmarked the game :slight_smile:

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Storytel is a subscription service, I wrote a mini review of it here. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Ah thanks! I remember seeing that post but I couldn’t use Storytel from where I live.

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That’s unfortunate. :slightly_frowning_face:

A quick search shows they are available on other sites, but accessing them may be more difficult - I haven’t tried these myself, but usually Korean sites need ID verification and there’s the possibility they don’t accept foreign cards, there are regional restrictions, etc.

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Cool, thanks for checking! Right now the thought of having to try to verify ID is a little intimidating, but maybe in the future when my skills are higher.

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Hi everyone!
I know we have the book club for 책벌레의 하극상 going on, but I am interested in starting another book club for Korean for intermediate and advanced learners that would kick off in mid October or in November. However, I don’t know what genre most people here would be interested in (or if there is a big appetite for another book club at all), so I’ve made a poll!

If you would be interested, feel free to vote on the poll below and I can look at setting up an organizational thread and getting things started. :blush:

  • General adult fiction
  • Young adult fiction
  • Non-fiction
  • Mystery/Thriller
  • Other
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FYI @bungakushoujo polls are usually best done if you enable the ‘show voters’ option hidden under the gear icon when creating a poll.

Idk why Discourse doesn’t allow that to be enabled by default, gah.

Anyway, I will attempt to read whatever genre you choose, but I voted purely with my heart :man_detective:

I have found the book club very motivating, so I heartily approve this endeavor!

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Oh dear, thanks! I’m still a bit of a newbie and I’m not sure how to go back and edit it in! At least we can still see the overall results. :sweat_smile:

We would love to have you! :blush:

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I don’t think you can change polls once they’ve started, you can only close/delete… :face_exhaling:

Anyway, I’ve added a link to the poll in the first post. :smiley:

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I appreciate that! :blush:

Let’s see what results come back over the next week and then organization can begin!

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You can within five minutes of the poll’s creation, which granted still isn’t a whole lot of time. :sweat_smile:

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Looks like we have a three way tie for general adult fiction, young adult fiction and mystery/thriller….:eyes: any other voters out there?

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It’s not looking like we are going to get any more tie-breaking votes, so how do people feel about a general fiction/novel reading book club where broad suggestions from different genres are accepted as long as they’re still fiction and full length books? @brandon @bibliothecary

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Sounds good to me! :smiley:

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Works for me too! :slight_smile:

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Great! We had one more voter (maybe it was you, @pieonakr?) but I’m not sure who since I set up the poll incorrectly! :woman_facepalming:t2: I’ll look at getting a home thread set up before the weekend so we can get started and make suggestions for the first book!

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