Welcome to Hive Book Club Highlight #321
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📍 Hello everyone, this is a reminder to kick off some more activity in the community, let's start out this week by this simple prompt!
Can you share a book that you were reluctant to read but found yourself pleasantly surprised by ?
There's no minimum of words and feel free to tell us about it.
This isn't a contest but a weekly prompt that will happen every Monday 😊 as perhaps throughout the week you have finished reading a book and wanted to share a particular experience when you finished reading a book. Let us know if you make one! there might be some tip along the way 😊
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Today, we're highlighting some of this content that you might enjoy. Check them out & don't forget to engage with these authors.
Author: @teknon
https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@teknon/set-on-you
A gym love story? Definitely new territory. I'm unashamed to say I have not read a gym romance plot this year.
I mean, of course I've complained tirelessly of how contemporary romance novels are becoming such a bore. Which is why, when BookTok recommended this book to me, I kept an open mind. It was obviously romance, but a gym romance plot is one plot I have mixed feelings about reading.You wouldn't blame me, seeing that I have a not so memorable experience of comforting a gym buddy who had her heart shattered to irreparable pieces by her gym crush. Which, by the way has left me temporarily having mixed feelings about getting into a relationship with gym members.It may be because of my friend's experience, or because of the stereotypical belie
Author: @namiks
https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@namiks/dceased-comic-review-a-fun-read-going-into-halloween
Halloween is right around the corner now and with everything going on at the moment, my Halloween comics and tv shows and films took a bit of a dive. But with just a few days left to enjoy the Halloween season I decided to look through recent comic releases in search of something that would be more fitting for the month. I started a few already that I previously wrote about, but they're still ongoing and between volumes. While I'm not particularly much of a fan of DC's works, or Marvel's for that matter, I did see that DC had highlighted a few comics from yesteryear that they were offering off for free that had some relation to the Halloween atmosphere. A few of them caught my attention, one of which featured Batman and Dracula which sounds quite fun. Another was something called DCEASED. A fun play on the word deceased with the DC branding. I guess it's relatively self-explanatory as to what it could be about. From what I had gathered with a quick reading of the synopsis, it seemed like the superhero setting featuring a virus that roams through the world, turning people into something rather zombie-like, but not entirely. I noticed it had just six volumes to it, which made it more appealing given it would only take a few hours to get through. I'm usually a little picky with these comics, one of the main things that pushes me out of interest tends to be the art style rather than the story. And DCEASED had a pretty interesting art style look to it.
Author: @macchiata
Honestly, this book makes me want to get the physical copy, as the one I am reading is the e-book version. I think there are some lines that I want to highlight physically in the book. While my initial reaction was definitely indifferent, I ended up enjoying reading this one.I've also read a few reviews on Verity, another standalone book of hers that seems to be more of my thing. Maybe then I'd eventually like Hoover more than I do right now.Would I recommend checking out Regretting You? Sort of, if you need a light read and something widely popular—almost every book aficionado you know has read her works.
Author: @cheeamaka
https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@cheeamaka/americanah-book-review--6zk
Finally!
After long months away from my books and the struggle to even read through this, I finally am done. I guess that a number of you remember reading that semi-rant, I have lost my penchant for writing just a while back. Anyways, I'm here to inform you that I made it through that read and fast, too. Phew! I feel super glad. And, thanks for your advices and contributions, they were helpful.
Moving on, I promised that I would give a review once I was done reading, and here it is.
Author: @honeydue
https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@honeydue/the-new-puritans-eloquent-cry-against-woke-madness
Having finished Andrew Doyle's PA course on Shakespearean tragedy, I eagerly started looking for something to keep him in my brain and ears. I was so taken with his eloquence and charm - to be fair, he had me from the first lecture, making off-hand comments about the woke deluge the Globe Theatre has been under, this past decadeNow, I'm not normally one for audiobooks. I have a racing mind and tend to wander off when someone's reading at me. But I'd gotten used to Andrew Doyle's voice and the combination of Britishness and superbly articulate snark had me reaching for my headphones.
Author: @olgamonteiros51
Hi! How’s it going? Hope you're all doing well. Today I want to share a review of a book my mom gave me for Christmas. I'll break it down into two parts: the first will be spoiler-free for those who haven’t read it, and the second will dive a bit deeper for those who already know the story.
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