Book club is dead, so let's try something else.
This is the Book Report - the goal is to 1) help other people find stuff to read, and 2) to give people some accountability and encouragement to keep reading. And just to talk about books and stuff.
The format:
To participate, you need to make at least three posts for each book.
The beginning
When you've just started. Tell us:
Title, author, and the blurb or link to information.
Why you chose to read it.
What your expectations are (difficulty, content, anything)
When you expect to finish it by.
The middle
How's it going? Is it all you'd hoped? Surprisingly easy? Difficult? Good? Bad?
What kind of vocabulary is it heavy on?
The end
How was it? Would you recommend it? Who to?
Of course, feel free to make additional posts as you go, but that's the minimum to participate. Please mark spoilers.
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So, going first.
I am just starting はんぴらり by 廣嶋玲子. Blurb from Amazon:
「武どの、はじめまして。鈴音丸ともうしまする。お会いできて、とてもうれしゅうございまする」…琴子ばあちゃんの家で出会ったちいさな男の子は、「はんぴらり」っていう半人前の神さまなんだって。今年の夏休みは、特別なことがおこりそうな予感!「はんぴらり」の修行がはじまるよ!シリーズ第一弾。小学校中・高学年向け。
I picked this up ages ago when I was going through the stage of buying everything that looked remotely readable. It doesn't look particularly interesting, but I just finished a fairly difficult book and need something easy without any political, medical, or whathaveyou vocabulary. If it turns out to be any good, the rest of the series might make a good circuit-breaker between more difficult books - slamming through multiple difficult books in a row too exhausting.
Plus, coincidentally, I read another book by the same author which was really good, so my expectations are higher than they might otherwise have been. Not expecting them to be very similar, but still - might be fun.
Should be finished in a couple of days, I imagine. Let's say 3-4
This is the Book Report - the goal is to 1) help other people find stuff to read, and 2) to give people some accountability and encouragement to keep reading. And just to talk about books and stuff.
The format:
To participate, you need to make at least three posts for each book.
The beginning
When you've just started. Tell us:
Title, author, and the blurb or link to information.
Why you chose to read it.
What your expectations are (difficulty, content, anything)
When you expect to finish it by.
The middle
How's it going? Is it all you'd hoped? Surprisingly easy? Difficult? Good? Bad?
What kind of vocabulary is it heavy on?
The end
How was it? Would you recommend it? Who to?
Of course, feel free to make additional posts as you go, but that's the minimum to participate. Please mark spoilers.
--
So, going first.
I am just starting はんぴらり by 廣嶋玲子. Blurb from Amazon:
「武どの、はじめまして。鈴音丸ともうしまする。お会いできて、とてもうれしゅうございまする」…琴子ばあちゃんの家で出会ったちいさな男の子は、「はんぴらり」っていう半人前の神さまなんだって。今年の夏休みは、特別なことがおこりそうな予感!「はんぴらり」の修行がはじまるよ!シリーズ第一弾。小学校中・高学年向け。
I picked this up ages ago when I was going through the stage of buying everything that looked remotely readable. It doesn't look particularly interesting, but I just finished a fairly difficult book and need something easy without any political, medical, or whathaveyou vocabulary. If it turns out to be any good, the rest of the series might make a good circuit-breaker between more difficult books - slamming through multiple difficult books in a row too exhausting.
Plus, coincidentally, I read another book by the same author which was really good, so my expectations are higher than they might otherwise have been. Not expecting them to be very similar, but still - might be fun.
Should be finished in a couple of days, I imagine. Let's say 3-4
