Welcome to Hive Book Club Highlight #340
Announcement
@oluchi31 shared a book titled Legacy of Orisha Tomi Adeyemi
@friendlymoose shares The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt about the effect of smartphones and internet on kids and teenagers and @justfavor along with @omokhafue and @soma13 who was tuning in in this week session.
@macchiata shares How to read people like a book by Patrick King
Today we're highlighting some of these content that you might enjoy. Check them out & don't forget to engage.
Author: @seunruth
https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@seunruth/book-review-between-the-world
What shook me about this book wasn’t just the brilliance of the writing, though that alone is enough to stop you mid-sentence. It was the intimacy of it. Coates frames the whole book as a letter to his son, and there’s something about that form—raw, direct, father-to-son—that makes every page feel like you’re eavesdropping on a conversation that’s as personal as it is political.
Author: @erigm
https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@erigm/book-review-1984-george-orwell-esen
In this book, we encounter a totalitarian government that controls and manipulates all its members, making them believe and accept as unquestionable truth everything they are told. This is where the protagonist, Winston Smith, comes in. He is a middle-aged man who belongs to the Party, but who has begun to question what is happening and the truths that are imposed on them. Although he knows that just thinking about it is a crime, he cannot stop himself, and he is well aware that it is only a matter of time before the Thought Police come for him and make him disappear. No matter how careful he is, when “Big Brother” is watching the screens 24/7, he will always be in danger of being discovered.
Author: @yugadi
https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@yugadi/of-flame-and-fury-by-mikayla-bridge--my-3-star-take
I went into this book with next to no expectations, and to be honest, the beginning absolutely blew me away. The writer sets us right on a fiery race course where phoenixes, you read that right, PHONEXIS!, not dragons(for once) are ridden around in high-octane competitions. The description was so vivid I could actually see it going down, which doesn't happen often for me. When I normally read, I don't immediately envision scenes like a film in my mind. I'm a "read the words, slow process them, then visualize" reader. But this time, I was there in the arena, I could feel the heat, the excitement, and the disarray.
Author: @camelia28
https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@camelia28/perfumes-and-perfumers-or-or
Leonel Amador, a journalist and founder of the influential portal CubaPerfumea, stands as a meticulous historian and a passionate storyteller. His work is the fruit of exhaustive research, years of interviews with octogenarian perfumers, and digging through dusty archives that held the secret of an industrial and cultural golden age that time and political events had obscured.
Author: @rocio1
https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@rocio1/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-broken-heart-honest-review
Here goes, a summary of my mind-blowing read! I got hooked on this book that I saw a lot on TikTok because of its aesthetics—it's just so beautiful! But the story, wow, the story completely captivated me. It all starts with a girl, Evangeline Fox, who is desperate because her fiancé is going to marry her stepsister. Can you imagine?!
Author: @eduards1
https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@eduards1/when-butterflies-learn-to-fly
She reveals how this girl, Rosa Elvira, released from prison, tells us about all the misdeeds committed by her, where orgies and lesbianism stand out. Punctually the author shows the excesses of a society in decadence, and it is extremely alarming that in those times there was so much depravity as highlighted in the book. Precisely because it was or is a real life story.
Author: @freidimar18
There are books that read you, rather than the other way around. Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of them. It is not just a story; it is a sensory experience, a whirlwind of emotions that grabs you from the first page and does not let go until the last. I approached it with the curiosity of someone delving into a myth, and I came away from its pages feeling as if I had lived an entire life in a place called Macondo. That's why today I want to share my experience with this masterpiece. Without further ado, here's my review!
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