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Welcome to Hive Book Club Highlight #326

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/hive-180164/Eo46HtzMcss33XsePNguzknieNCw3vZ6Cm8vuvcraAy6NGoLf6kxbupch9BkpThLxax.png) ## Announcement # 2025 is almost here! Let’s fill it with amazing stories. Share a book you think every Hive member should add to their list! There’s no minimum of words, so 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 tips along the way 😊 ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/hive-180164/Eo46HtzMcss33XsePNguzknieNCw3vZ6Cm8vuvcraAy6NGoLf6kxbupch9BkpThLxax.png) Today we're highlighting some of these content that you might enjoy. Check them out & don't forget to engage. Author: @audiarmisg https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@audiarmisg/the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo-or-review > Hello friends, today I want to share with you one of my passions: reading. This year, among all the things that happened, I can mention that getting back into reading has been a wonderful surprise for me.I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced the reader’s block, but I have. And it wasn’t a short period, it was over 5 years during which I did read some books, but with a lot of difficulty. I had lost the joy of this habit. But well, this year I’ve read at least 10 books, and that makes me really happy. Among the books I most enjoyed reading is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Author: @gabmr https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@gabmr/reading-beethoven-s-life-in-his-197th-birthday > This is my first time posting on this fascinating community. It's nice to see how the blockchain doesn't stop expanding to new horizons every time. Fortunately, this space made me gain enough confidence to dare posting a short review on one of my favorites of all times: Beethoven (RIP birthday boy). Author: @jhymi https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@jhymi/amber-a-scintillating-fantasy-c4c > I love eccentric books. I love fantasy novels, even though I like to take a break from it sometimes. I love books that make me dream and wonder and fantasize. Most novels make me lose myself in my imagination, but when it comes to books that border on fantasy like this. Books that talks about a god, not just any god, a renowned Nigerian god falling in love with a mortal, forget it, I’m sold completely.So, I’m a bit late talking about this book and I’m on a deadline, but I think I’ll practically combust if I don’t talk about this book right now. I finished reading Amber yester-night and I was in bliss. It took me about two hours to finish the entire novel, and I don’t think I put it down for a second. Without further ado, I’ll get to what exactly this amazing book is about. Author: @justfavour https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@justfavour/10-pages-brevity-meets-brilliance-amiri-barakas-dutchman-7z5 > Have you ever been in a situation where you read multiple books at the same time? Usually, I like to start a book and finish it. Years ago, I made sure I finished reading every book I started; it was my reading tradition. Interestingly, ever since I got into the university, my lecturers have been making us read books that are not too interesting- boring books to be precise. You know, books that you have to read a paragraph more than 3 times before you grasp what the author is trying to say. Now, my library is filled with many unfinished books and God knows when I will finally have the zeal to complete them.or: @namikshaa https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@namiks/alien-paradiso-first-impressions-finally-a-different-take-on-the-alien-story > An Alien franchised comic book releasing in the year of 2024 sounds a bit odd, doesn't it? It feels like a franchise that Hollywood has been trying to push for decades ever since the success of the very first title way back with Sigourney Weaver in 1979. Over the decades since we've seen attempts to branch the series out into spin-off titles like Prometheus or Alien vs Predator, as well as generic sequels that aim to capture and profit from the nostalgia of the original while ultimately pursuing the exact same narrative structure without doing much else. I recently saw Alien: Romulus which I would state was properly the first actually strong Alien title since the original, but it was still pretty much more of the same thing that has been tried and done to death: space colony group enters space, stumbles across something they probably shouldn't have, and then suffering the consequences with the arrival of xenomorphs that plague the ship, alongside the usual body horror that's met with face-huggers latching themselves onto victims in their parasitic nature. I want to enjoy the franchise, I really do, but I do think it's stuck in this stagnation of never trying to really do anything different, sticking too tightly to its formula. I guess this is where a comic series might actually step in to change things up a bit, right? Author: @omokhafue https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@omokhafue/not-so-bad-jcz > After reading some posts relating to the #mondaybookprompt, it was time for me to actually write about it. Actually,I got a little motivated by a post from @jhymi.We are talking about milestones for 2025 when it comes to reading books. Honestly, I've never been one to do all that keeping of records or taking note of the amount of books I've read in a year,that sort of thing. I just read any book, whatever number of books and call it a year. Getting into some of the insides of bookstagram and some book clubs on WhatsApp,discord and telegram,made me realize the importance of keeping record. It's all about growth. You being reminded that oh yeah,I did that. I read that. It impacted a lot and trying to remember everything you felt during those hours you spent reading those gigantic number of books. I have a friend,in this book club I'm part of on WhatsApp. She was randomly talking on the group chat one day, about how she accomplished her goal of reading 250 books in a year. I was genuinely proud of her because she did that. It means a lot to achieve what you've set out to accomplish or do. Author: @fermentedphil https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@fermentedphil/the-abstinence-teacher-by-tom-perrotta-or-a-fermented-book-review > Sometimes, I buy books purely based on the author's name. A long time ago, I watched a series on TV called The Leftovers, which was based on the novel by the author Tom Perrotta. Since then, I always wanted to buy that book, but I only found two other novels by Perrotta, and in this case the novel titled The Abstinence Teacher. Author: @olujay https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@olujay/sucks-to-forget-really-hzm > In a video we were watching together, my brother and I stumbled on the name Malala. My brother had heard the name somewhere, but he couldn't quite place it. I, on the other hand, mentioned just who the person was and where exactly he had learned about them from. It was Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani education activist, and she was shot in the head at a very young age and survived. We had both read it in the book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck. Author: @lucianav https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@lucianav/twisted-hate-josh-chen-my-lovehate-with-him > Ana Huang's Twisted saga has become one of my favorites, as I've shared with you in the last two reviews I've done on book one and two of this saga. But among a saga of favorites there is always going to be one that could have been better; for me, this book is Twisted Hate, the third book in this saga starring Josh Chen and Jules Ambrose, Eva's brother and Ava's best friend. I really wanted to read this book because I had read that this is where the reconciliation between Alex and Josh took place, so I understood that Alex was going to appear several times and that was what excited me the most. I started reading it without many expectations and while I was reading the first chapters, the truth is that I started to get a little bit of a taste for it and I want to tell you why.

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