It might be best to do the next one without me, at this point. I’ve been doing a lot of activism over the past year, which is most of what’s been keeping me busy, and I keep hoping things will take a positive turn and I won’t need to be doing as much activism, and could free up a bit more time for language study, but that has thus far not happened, so my free time has not returned, and probably won’t be returning for the near future…
I was holding out hope that maybe we’d have some better news coming out of August and I’d have more of my September to myself, but sadly it doesn’t look like that’ll be the case, so instead I’m trying to catch up on the stuff I’m already behind on as much as possible with the hopes of not having any book club obligations by the time NaNoWriMo rolls around in November (because there’s no way I could balance activism + continuing my language studies + translating wrestling + book club participation + writing an entire novel in one month).
So feel free to start another club without me! I’ll aim for joining in on the next one, hopefully. I should be finished with Bestias by then, and if it starts December or later, I shouldn’t have NaNoWriMo, either, and maybe (crossing my fingers ) the situation in the world will have improved enough that I don’t need to be out there doing activism every week, so I’m hoping I can join in with a book club then and maybe not fall immediately behind like I did on the last one .
It sounds like fallynleaf will be busy for a while, so I’ll go ahead and put up a poll, just to get one last check:
Want to go ahead and vote for a new book?
Yeah, let’s do it
Let’s wait for a while longer
0voters
I did want to check in on this; @HopeWaterfall was the initial nominee, and I wanted to check to see what you wanted to do. Looks like that book does trend higher than others (if only because it actually has gradings, granted); would you like to keep the nomination, or retract it?
Alrighty, I’ll go ahead and set up our next vote! This is a pretty small club, so I won’t set a closing deadline. My apologies for no fancy covers on this one! You get three votes. Let me know if I’ve forgotten anything~
Ha! That puts me in a tricky position! I’ve voted for both of those at some point in the polls. Let me try and look at the sample chapters again and I will exercise my casting vote!
I’m assuming from what they wrote above that @fallynleaf won’t have a problem if we select their nomination.
Yep, no problem at all! It might end up tempting me to join, actually . I don’t want to cheat on Bestias, but Mentirosa does look like an easier read that would take less energy…
(I will refrain from voting, though, since I can’t formally commit to joining, haha)
I’ve gone with Mentirosa. I think it’s seems easier than Copo although quite a bit longer! Quite the choice - a first person narrative in 21st century full of instagram and smartphone references, or a first person narrative in the 15th century full of Aztec references!
Great! I also chose Mentirosa because it seemed easier to read judging by the excerpt. As a bonus point, today I found out that it’s part of Kindle unlimited both in Germany and on the Japanese store. Which is great for me; I am (only) subscribed to the Japanese one.
I’ll be gone on holiday the next week (and again the first two weeks of October) but I can really start whenever since I can easily carry my kindle with me. I’ll be happy to go by whatever date works for you all.
Bizarrely it’s not available to buy a physical copy from Amazon.es but is available to buy a physical copy on Amazon.co.uk! I will be going digital though and thankfully don’t have to try and figure out kindle on the Spanish store as it is available on Amazon UK for kindle.
) the situation in the world will have improved enough that I don’t need to be out there doing activism every week, so I’m hoping I can join in with a book club then and maybe not fall immediately behind like I did on the last one 
.
As a bonus point, today I found out that it’s part of Kindle unlimited both in Germany and on the Japanese store. Which is great for me; I am (only) subscribed to the Japanese one. 
