Not exactly what should I read next, but what should I buy next. Bookwalker currently offers 50% coin back for purchases over 1500 yen, and I can never resist buying new books.
穴, 穴屋でございます and 爪と目
(First two because I’ve developed a thematic interest in holes in literature, and third one to reach 1500 and because I’ve been vaguely interested in it. All three are short stories)
街とその不確かな壁
(The latest Murakami. Crazy expensive at 2970 yen though, even with the 50% offer)
リカ and 本性
(Both seem to be about creepy women. I’ll likely get Rika sooner or later in any case, for the Spooky Summer club)
正欲 and 今昔百鬼拾遺 鬼
(First one seems to be very popular lately, about sexual minorities, second one is a mystery with yokai elements. I’ve been vaguely interested in both for ages)
Just finished my latest physical read, so now you, fellow natively natives, are tasked once again to help decide my reading fate.
I like the idea of people not knowing which book they are voting for, so I’m giving you guys just some hints about the contents.
horror short story collection
non-fiction about weird animals
love story with time-loop (probably?)
group of kids investigating a jewel heist
re-telling of a book from the cat’s POV
team of teen detectives (?) with special abilities solving cases…and maybe more
I was wondering if I knew what “retelling of a book from the cat’s POV” was, but then I realised the book I was thinking of was “retelling of a book, only not from the cat’s POV”
Thanks to everyone who voted! I listened to the people and got the first choice.
Interestingly, as some of you already know, I ran this poll on WK too, and the results there were quite different. So of course I had to get the first choice of that poll too.
So now I am the proud owner of 正欲, 今昔百鬼拾遺 鬼 and 鳴かずのカッコウ, which only came third here. I’ll let you know how I find them when I get to them!
I like Kafka, but not for children. Why do people think 10 year olds can appreciate higher literature? Luckily it seems it didn’t kill reading for you completely as it does for so many other kids.
It was the one that turns into a cockroach which is very disturbing for a kid to read.
Turns out a lof of kids in the class weren’t able to even finish the thing.
The one I was thinking of was 漱石先生の事件簿, which is a a book of mystery short stories based on the events in 吾輩は猫である, but does not have the cat as narrator.
I’ve passed the halfway mark of さいとう市立さいとう高校野球部 (下) and my new books have shipped today, and I’m still no closer to deciding which I wanna read first, so:
Yup! I don’t have No.6 yet, but I’m starting to collect her baseball novels (there are quite a few), although I don’t think Girls Blue is sports, I just wanted one with female MCs
I’ve actually been thinking of reading a bunch of baseball stuff since I’m really into it and it’d be a fun way to learn the terms, so I definitely have to check some of her baseball stuff out.
I haven’t read No.6 yet in in Japanese but I’ve read the English fan translation, the Japanese version’s one of my goal books. Based on your review I might try さいとう野球部 as prep for No.6
I’ve just read 星の子, which I didn’t like too much, but I am looking for a new book that is somewhere around level 28-32. I’d like to read something more fantasy/science fiction with adult characters or books with adult characters on subjects like loneliness. Anyone have recs??
鳴かずのカッコウ
穴, 穴屋でございます and 爪と目
街とその不確かな壁
リカ and 本性
正欲 and 今昔百鬼拾遺 鬼
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I might have to pick that up