Question
What’s a book that completely changed your perspective this year? I’m looking for my next mind-expanding read!
Priya Shah 3d ago
Braiding Sweetgrass. I see plants completely differently now.
Noah Fischer 3d ago
Project Hail Mary, oddly. It made me want to learn more science.
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Read this on the train this morning and had to put the book down for a minute.
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
4.8
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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth.
Amara Diallo 3d ago
This book ruined me in the best way.
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Reading Update
Just finished The Midnight Library and I’m in awe. 💙 It’s such a reminder that it’s never too late to choose a different path. This book made me think about all the little moments that shape a life, and how much hope there is in every one of them.
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Finished
Between life and death there is a library…
Elena Park 3d ago
The chapter with the glaciologist life got me every time.
Leo Martins 3d ago
Adding it to my list right now!
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Review
Rated 5 out of 5
An octopus narrator should not work this well. Tender, funny and quietly devastating. Marcellus deserves every award there is. The kind of book you press into a friend’s hands.
Isla Moore 3d ago
Marcellus is my favourite narrator of the last few years.
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Settling a debate in my book club: how do you read most of your books?
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Omar Haddad 3d ago
Audiobooks on the commute, paperbacks at home. Can’t pick!
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Reading Update
Currently 60% through Dune and I’m absolutely hooked. The world-building is incredible. Anyone else find the political intrigue the most fascinating part?
Dune
Frank Herbert
60%
The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Daniel Okafor 4d ago
Wait until you get to the desert chapters. Best part of the book.
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Review
Rated 5 out of 5
Rocky is the best friend in all of fiction and I will not be taking questions. Funny, nerdy and surprisingly moving. Science has never been this much fun.
Question
Looking for a cosy mystery for a rainy weekend. Nothing too gory, lots of tea, ideally a cat. Go!
Hana Sato 5d ago
The Thursday Murder Club. Exactly this.
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Review
Rated 4 out of 5
Beautifully written, but the middle dragged for me. The ending more than made up for it, though, and I’m still thinking about Sam and Sadie.
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Habit stacking actually worked: one page after my morning coffee turned into thirty. Halfway through and already rearranging my mornings.
Grace Chen 4d ago
The two-minute rule is the one that stuck for me.
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Review
Rated 5 out of 5
Miller turns a footnote of myth into a whole life. The prose glows, and Circe’s slow, stubborn becoming stayed with me for days.
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Rated 5 out of 5
An octopus narrator should not work this well. Tender, funny, and quietly devastating — the kind of book you press into a friend’s hands.
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Rated 4 out of 5
Hard to read in places, impossible to put down. A reminder that learning can be both a rescue and a reckoning.
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