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[close] To whom it may concern: Welcome to the intellectual elite that is our books association. We represent the future of our society, and strongly believe sharing our sources of inspiration might contribute to a better world for our grandchildren, cats, and other relevant organisms. Please join (we are desperate). This is not a request, this is a threat. We know who you are. Come join the dark side. I know you secretly watch anime, now read this book on the Japanese economy. I dare you.

[close] — This book club is for Chinese speakers — 每月最后一个周日线上VooV读书会 北京时间21:00，欢迎加入 我们用微信群交流，感兴趣的可以私信Eleanor or Bill入群

[close] I started this group on idea that I had as a reader. I was constantly finding books in foreign languages that I am/was unable to read. I thought wouldn't it be great if I could ban together translators, authors and publishers together to possibly make English versions available to non-multilingual people? and also, books from other countries like the UK and Australia not available to those in the USA? I'm looking for translators who are dual-lingual, in their native tongue and in English. French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, all apply here. My idea is to take the original book, translate it, publish it to Smashwords or somewhere similar, see how it gains an audience to an American publisher may pick it up and publish it, possibly give it a better translation. I'm not sure how all this work, legally, but it's worth taking a shot at! If this takes off, I'd like to start a website, to collaborate with reviewers, other bloggers, authors, publishers and freelance translators. We would work on translations, take requests, communicate with authors and publishers and review said books. if we cannot translate, I'd like to at least spread the knowledge of the books in hopes that they'd picked up by a USA publisher.

[close] Chinese & Peranakan Book Club Picks for Chinese Indonesian Readers. Read together and discuss. 📚☕️