π What book is everyone reading lately?
Or what was the last book you finished?
I finished "Scream for Me" by Karen Rose yesterday and absolutely loved it. It was the perfect mix of thriller, mystery, and romance.
Today I've started "Have You Seen Me?" by Kate White, which is about a woman who wakes up with five years of her memory missing.
I'd love to know what everyone else is reading!
I'm also thinking we can use the Book Club interest a little differently. Instead of discussing every book under one post, we could create separate discussion threads for individual books. That way, anyone who has read the same book can join in without the conversation getting mixed up.
I'd suggest creating a discussion thread after you've finished the book, so everyone can freely discuss it (with spoiler tags where needed)
Tomorrow I'll make a dedicated thread for Scream for Me with my detailed thoughts (spoiler-free at first π«£)
Drop the book you're currently reading or the last one you finished and tell us in one or two lines whether you'd recommend it πβ¨
And if enough people are interested, we could even vote on a monthly book to read together and eventually have a Book Club meetup to discuss it.
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9But the book is about a group of friends visiting an island famous for a murder mystery in which now they are personally entangled.
Last read - 1984 by George Orwell. You can take away anything you want from this book, it's a brilliant piece of study of humans, government, propaganda and weaponizing language. Oh, I can talk endlessly about this one .
For tracking my books, I use this indie app developed by women called - Pagebound. They keep the app ad-free and AI free. Really made me move over from Goodreads, a huge fan of their UI/UX.
Fun fact about 1984 is that it was equally hated by both communists and capitalist. They all thought it was a dig at them. Or maybe I'm thinking about "Animal Farm". Eh same author. Po-tay-to, Puh-tae-to. Lol.
Thanks for the app suggestion. I'll check it out for the books I'm reading currently and also to steal their UI UX design for TwoXTopia π
Maintaining the reading streak on that app got me reading for the whole week...
Me toh naa sehti behan π
But with time that habit simply disappeared. And I'm disappointed in myself.
But but but i purchased this book "How to kill men" a few days ago to understand the chaos behind why everyone was hating on that metro girl for reading this book and I am officially hooked.
Alsoooooooooπ€ I am writing my inner thoughts after every episode and para because I am .... Hooked?.. yeah.
But I guess then life happened and I could barely read anything untill it was absolutely important.
And this seems to be happening with everyone as we grow old. Don't sweat it too much.
You've started reading again so that's a good thing. You'll read more eventually.
Do make a separate post once you are done reading. And maybe we can exchange books someday to read more!
Now reading Empire of the Vampire. Haven't read prose like this in a while. Finding it quite interesting, but it's supposed to pick up after 50%.. kinda slow...
Basically you pay for the box and not for the books. I managed to fit 17 books. So basically it costed me 100Rs per book.
However it took me this long to finally start reading something. I started with Bridget Jones Diary lasy year but gave up because I found it a bit boring. Then this year I picked up "The Other Queen" by Philippa Gregory.
It was really good but 3/4th way in I got stuck with other chores so I had to stop and couldn't get back in because I kinda felt like I forgot what I read and that i should start again.
Finally I picked up "Scream for Me" four days ago because I was on a leave for the first time in 2 months and I felt like i should read something to ease the pain I was in.
And I'm so glad I took that decision. I finally got back into the groove of reading books. I have a feeling I'm gonna finish a major chunk of my existing book collection before the year ends. Wish me luck π€π»
Its so good
I'm so hooked in it
Its like arriving tired from office and giving a read feels good peaceful...
On weekends i just sink in..into it
Its almost half done within a week of purchase
Its about a girl who was going through a heartbreak and then she went to her uncle's bookshop
There she met some people and became friends with and wandered across the bookshop street in jombocho
She describes so beautifully of how the season's change according to what's inside going on with her
I think i love reading fiction will be reading more of it in future and definitely going to be a bookworm
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One is Thursday Murder Club By Richard Osman. Just started it and the pace is good. I also heard the movie was fine so wanted to finish it before I watch the movie. Love thrillers..
Second is The girls are not fine by Harnidh Kaur. This book is something I would recommend for all the lovely women here!! She's like a big sister who makes us feel seen entirely.. Do read it.
Third is The Midnight Library.. So far I like the philosophical narrative around life and regrets. I was going through tough time myself so it's kind of helping me reflect a bit.
To be honest even I was pretty much in a reading slump for a long time. I found books at a very young age when I had no one to talk to. And now the same tough times are pulling me back to read a lot more amidst all these responsibilities. I do have issues with my attention span (which is why 3 books) but yeah maybe books are like one way I feel better and let things out of my system!! ππ©·