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[Chocolate]

Great @Jane. Look forward to see yours. Week to week sounds good too.

 

[Chocolate]

@UnniSara I've finished Blood Heir!

 

 

Loved the ending ❤ If it is going to follow the Kate Daniel's series, we're going to have to wait 1 book per year 😭

 

 

[Chocolate]

On 7/3/2021 at 5:19 AM, stroppyse said:

I don't read that much romance any more, but I used to read Judith McNaught, Kathleen Woodiwiss, and Julie Garwood who all wrote historical romances. And, of course, Jane Austen.

 

Who do you read?

 

On 7/4/2021 at 7:10 AM, Mizv said:

Julie Garwood is my favorite however I’ve read ALL her books and she hasn’t written a historical one for a long time. I’m a fan of Pride and Prejudice theme.I’m a sucker to  read anything that is  Mr. Darcy character.  The best remake book I’ve read is By Linda Berdoll…. Whew! have a open mind.  I don’t normally read Danielle Steele but The Duchess Is pretty good.   While searching to satisfy my urge for historical fiction I discovered contemporary British theme.  So am hooked on Louise Bay series Books. the Royals and others British hot babes.  if there is any books recommend please do tell.  

 

Oh I love love love Judith McNaught too! Her heroines are all feminine yet spunky, not damsels in distress, and the conversations are witty and interesting! Both her historicals and modern pieces are wonderful. I've posted Whitney My Love earlier in this thread. Paradise was another great one. So sad she is no longer writing.

 

I've tried both Kathleen Woodiwiss and Julie Garwood - but have not felt the urge to read ALL their books. Have read Jane Austen when I was in school.

 

Thanks for the recommendations Mizv, I shall check them out.

 

I've read a lot of trashy historicals just to pass time, so the list is too long. The few standout authors, where I read almost all the books written are:

 

TOP FAVES

Judith McNaught

Sherry Thomas

Eloisa James - all are good but this one is funny too!

 

 

Sylvia Day - she wrote the contemporary series "Bared to you" which was I think was miles better than 50 shades, except she had 5 books and it became too long.

 

 

Next Faves

Elizabeth Hoyt

Sarah Maclean

Lorraine Heath

Lisa Kleypas

Loretta Chase

 

Edited July 5, 2021 by Chocolate

[stroppyse]

@Chocolate, since you read modern day novels, you might want to check out Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Suzanne Brockmann. They're very America-centric, but they are full of humor and well developed characters.

 

Not huge into fantasy romance, so no werewolves or vampires or anything like that.

[SilverMoonTea]

 

Rate : 3/5 ⭐⭐⭐

 

Pick this up, as it looks intriguing. The cover and paper feels luxurious & pretty. Yes I judged book by the cover 😅. Not many pages (~200 pages), and have slice of life feel with some hint of mistery, as who is the girl in purple skirt and her follower's identity. 

 

SPOILER :

Spoiler

It's kind of odd story with odd ending. But somehow readable and you need to find out until it ends.

 

So the ending Supervisor Gondo is actually the yellow skirt woman, she's kind of obsessed with purple skirt.

 

I think the ending is a bit open for your own perspective (something I don't really like about), as I'm not clear who's the thief of the hotel's stuff actually. 

 

I think I won't recommend this. Eventhough it's popular and win a lot of award. 

 

[SilverMoonTea]

 

Rate : 4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

 

This book seems famous and I always saw it in bookstagram's feed. The mistery surrounding the missing woman will kept you go through until last pages. Didn't see the end coming. 

 

SPOILER:

Spoiler

Eventhough I paid attention to every character its really hard to guess that shes the one involved on all of this! Bea! 

 

I reduced 1 star cos its less thrilling then what I was hoped. It was more like domestic neighbourhood case goes wrong. 

 

 

[SilverMoonTea]

This is what u should do in bookstore @mademoisellelols

 

Spoiler

 

[mademoiselle]

Well... I don't like her going back & forth between two guys @SilverMoonTea

[SilverMoonTea]

6 minutes ago, mademoiselle said:

Well... I don't like her going back & forth between two guys @SilverMoonTea

Yes I agree lols. Quite irritating haha... but SSH quite dashing and I like to see him tortured lols

[ssteph]

@SilverMoonTea I watched SSH & SSK's drama because her family owned a bookstore 😂 I was sleepy watching it. If it didn't have bookstore in the story, I would give up...

[SilverMoonTea]

1 hour ago, ssteph said:

@SilverMoonTea I watched SSH & SSK's drama because her family owned a bookstore 😂 I was sleepy watching it. If it didn't have bookstore in the story, I would give up...

 

Yes the bookstore setting quite nice. But the storyline quite crazy. All that cheating irked me a lot (and I'm actually can watch some affair drama, but this one bother me so much, sigh). All side characters also equally annoying. Probably Han Tae Sang is the only one I can tolerate. But he also sometimes no pride 🤔

 

I think the only book related stuff there, when both ML quote sentence from book and put it in the blackboard outside the store. And book even become reason for cheating, " I want to pick up some more books". -> FL go upstairs and hug 2nd ML. Duh 🤦‍♀️

 

@mademoiselle🤐😶🥵😵

[ssteph]

Park Eun Bin & Park Ji Hyun 📖

 

 

Cr : Namoo Actors Naver Post

https://m.post.naver.com/viewer/postView.naver?volumeNo=32107040&memberNo=1609562

[Chocolate]

 @ssteph Didn't know we could just post photos of people reading a book but not the book itself hahahaha!

 

Here's one of my favourites 

 

 

[mademoiselle]

Well, last Saturday I actually read a novel.

 

It's called "You Are My Glory"

 

 

[ssteph]

@Chocolate I asked for permission from SilverMoonTea. Thought she would scold me  to post photo not book review...

[SilverMoonTea]

1 hour ago, ssteph said:

@Chocolate I asked for permission from SilverMoonTea. Thought she would scold me  to post photo not book review...

I sort of slowing down on reading books lols... too many distracting oppas I keep buying books just to stack them on my room. How ah? 

[ssteph]

@SilverMoonTea same. I slow down too 😂 K-dramas and SJK distract me 😭😭😭

 

1 hour ago, SilverMoonTea said:

I keep buying books just to stack them on my room.

 

I remember this Japanese word : tsundoku

 

Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them. It is also used to refer to books ready for reading later when they are on a bookshelf.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku

 

Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44981013.amp

 

The art 😁😁😁

[SilverMoonTea]

I've been very slowly reading this and finally finished it. The ending is truly remarkable, very clever. The novel been very popular and win many prizes. 

 

 

The story is based on childhood stories Little Red Riding Hoods, one day 7 kids able to enter into the castle from their mirror in the house. It's story about friendship, bullying, family problem and how they able to get stronger from their meeting. 

[SilverMoonTea]

 

This is about the book not the oppa 😅😆 @Chocolate@mademoiselle@ssteph

[Chocolate]

Excuses excuses...

 

[mademoiselle]

Are you turning the book lounge to "Oppa reading books" lounge instead @SilverMoonTea

[ssteph]

@SilverMoonTea Are you sure it's about the book? 

 

[ssteph]

[Review] Very Good Lives - J.K. Rowling

(Non fiction book)

 

 

I read this book in Indonesian translation version. The book is thin, hard cover, a lot of illustrations inside.

 

This is actually J.K. Rowling’s speech at Harvard University in 2008. The theme is benefits of failure and importance of imagination. She shares her experiences in her life. There are many good quotes.

 

Failures can make us know the only one thing we can do very well. Imagination can make us feel and put ourselves in position of people whose life is different from us. With imagination she hopes we can make a change in people’s life and make this world a better place.

 

Some good quotes :

 

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."

 

"Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged."

 

"Unlike any other creature on this planet, human beings can learn and understand without having experienced. They can think themselves into other peoples’ places…….. And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or peer inside cages. They can close their hearts and minds to any suffering that does not touch them personally. They can refuse to know."

 

[stroppyse]

Currently reading "The Last Flight" by Julie Clark. The premise is that 2 women, Claire and Eva, who are both in tough circumstances and want to disappear from their own lives, exchange tickets at an airport, so that each woman is going to the other woman's destination. However, one of the planes crashes on its way to its destination while the other plane makes it.

 

The story is told in flashback and in the current time as well, telling the stories of why both women wanted to leave their own lives. Claire who arrives safely at her exchanged destination then has to figure out how to survive. Eva on the plane that crashes seems to disappear in that she's not in the seat that she had been assigned, and we don't find out what really happened to her until the very end of the book.

 

It's an interesting story, with most of the book describing how the women got to their state of desperation, as well as how they ended up meeting at the airport. At 269 pages, it's a fast read, and good for summer reading when you just want to chill with a book.

[SilverMoonTea]

I think you're the one suggest me to read John Grisham - The Litigator right? I like it and been reading it non stop. It's quite funny too.