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* The Parallel Worlds discord, local bookstore that runs two of the book clubs I am in, are having temp spin-off groups for Murderbot and also Locked Tomb. I started Gideon the Ninth a while back, but didn't finish it. I was very determined to get caught up last year, but something derailed that and I forget what. Considering how much fan merch I see for the series, I need to get that first book read and this would be a great opportunity. On more than on occasion I almost bought stickers not realizing there were fan merch for the series. So yeah, drowning in book-club-ness.
* Today in the mail I got a box from Japan with this:
I did not order this. Box has my name on it and everything. I've started reading it, because what else should you do with creepy mystery manga? Slow going because it's been a minute since I read untranslated manga.
I did order Boys Run The Riot in it's original form, but from a seller in the US, not Japan. I've been in touch with them about the box, they say it's nothing to do with them. The person who runs the eBay shop is on vacation in Germany for two months. My order came in while the shop had been closed for weeks, and I knew that. Just not a lot of places to buy it untranslated so I placed the order anyway. Amazon.co.jp wont ship the Japanese language version to the US for some reason. Boys Run The Riot is probably going to be an upcoming Trans Book Club read. We made a short list of about 6 books that most of us said we were all interested in, while Dead Collections is next, Boys will likely be in the next few months. I should have picked it up ages ago, and I want to read it in Japanese because I (think I) can.
So, for now I have Oyasumi PunPun to practice with? I guess?
Note: I fully expect to get an email next month saying that yes, somehow this was a glitch with my eBay order. How else could this have happened?
* The likely upcoming books for Trans book club are: Finna by Nino Cipri, Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powers, Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku, Nimona by ND Stevenson, and Manywhere by Morgan Thomas. All books I am at least fine with, most I am looking forward to. I am going to see if I can get Idlewild added because it's on my TBR and also it's on the schedule for Queer Book Club so that would be convenient.
* Today in the mail I got a box from Japan with this:
I did not order this. Box has my name on it and everything. I've started reading it, because what else should you do with creepy mystery manga? Slow going because it's been a minute since I read untranslated manga.
I did order Boys Run The Riot in it's original form, but from a seller in the US, not Japan. I've been in touch with them about the box, they say it's nothing to do with them. The person who runs the eBay shop is on vacation in Germany for two months. My order came in while the shop had been closed for weeks, and I knew that. Just not a lot of places to buy it untranslated so I placed the order anyway. Amazon.co.jp wont ship the Japanese language version to the US for some reason. Boys Run The Riot is probably going to be an upcoming Trans Book Club read. We made a short list of about 6 books that most of us said we were all interested in, while Dead Collections is next, Boys will likely be in the next few months. I should have picked it up ages ago, and I want to read it in Japanese because I (think I) can.
So, for now I have Oyasumi PunPun to practice with? I guess?
Note: I fully expect to get an email next month saying that yes, somehow this was a glitch with my eBay order. How else could this have happened?
* The likely upcoming books for Trans book club are: Finna by Nino Cipri, Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powers, Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku, Nimona by ND Stevenson, and Manywhere by Morgan Thomas. All books I am at least fine with, most I am looking forward to. I am going to see if I can get Idlewild added because it's on my TBR and also it's on the schedule for Queer Book Club so that would be convenient.
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Date: 2025-02-22 01:23 pm (UTC)From:I really liked Jonny Appleseed. Whitehead's writing is really beautiful.
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Date: 2025-02-24 04:57 am (UTC)From:I hope we get to Johnny Appleseed, I feel like we will read those all this year!
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Date: 2025-02-23 04:26 am (UTC)From:Gideon the Ninth is sitting on my shelf. It keeps getting nudged up my TBR list just to get completely forgotten about! I think it was one (of many) that I forgot to even include when I was dismayed about having 90 books on the TBR list, but I'll stick it back on there at some point. I do keep hearing so many good things!
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Date: 2025-02-24 04:46 am (UTC)From:That series is a whole thing. I really want to either be in the loop, or be satisfied that it's not for me
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Date: 2025-02-25 03:51 am (UTC)From:It IS a whole thing - it's definitely one of the most engaged book fandoms I've seen outside of the usual big ones. I hold out hope that it will be for me, but I'm not sure when I will find out, haha.
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