book diary

following interested to see what u read im a big bookworm myself

Ohhh i got this one for xmas and im excited to read it! I know its been very hyped but it seems like it was worth it
Have a great rest of ur weekend and weekend

The book I've decided to read for this week is actually not a book, but a play. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams!

I've only just found this thread but I'm going to follow on to see what you read!!

I studied Streetcar last year (yr12) as part of my A-Level course! I'd love to see what you think of it!!

Fourth Wing is next on my to be read 😂

If you liked that sort of fantasy young adult genre the book Powerless is popular right now and I found to be enjoyable. A great one when you begin reading I’ve found is A Good Girls Guide To Murder. Scythe I found was a good dystopian young adult book - it’s about the world in the future when we’ve found a way to live forever, so the world gets overpopulated, and people become ‘scythes’ to control the population by ‘gleaning’ them. It’s a dark concept but the book itself I think is one of the better written young adult ones.

Those are more fiction, and to be honest I’m more of a YA person myself (because all social media talks about and I honestly enjoy them even if they’re not masterpieces).

If these aren’t part of your English lit curriculum, I really enjoyed reading Of Mice and Men, and The Lord of the Flies. Both of them were interesting and thought provoking, and I particularly enjoyed how Lord of The Flies mirrors the human nature (it follows a group of schoolboys who crash on an island and try to make their own civilisation). Those are good options if you’d like to expand your reading.

Then for classics I know most English lit curriculums read Jane Eyre so that may be a good one, but I’d say start with Little Women, that’s one of the few classics I could get into.

I’m definitely following this thread because my goal this year was to become ‘more knowledgeable’ and basically read more about everything. Also your review of the the first book is really motivating me to finish my current one .

Fourth Wing was to my tbr for quite some time too. So glad I picked it up, because its one of the best y/a books ive read🤣.
Ooo, I've heard lots of good thing about Powerless. It's a really popular book on Booktok! I've already read the AGGGTM series, and its one of my fav series of all time😍 I've never heard of Scythe, but from the way you describe it, im getting a dystopian vibe from it? And if it is, I will deffo be reading since dystopian is one of my favourite genres )
Neither of the two books are actually on my curriculum, but I will be checking out Lord of the Flies since what you described is something that I would be interested in reading😊 About Of Mice and Men, idk how to feel about it since I'm pretty sure its by John Steinbeck? (correct me if im wrong). I tried reading Grapes of Wrath by him as well, and let's say it didnt go down that well. I tried Great Gatsby but just ended up watching the film instead😅 I think it's something about American Literature thats just a no for me lol.
I've actually read Little Women, and it is one of THE best classics I've picked up. I love the book and fell in love with the movie that I've watch it religiously every autumn for the past 3 years and then read the book simultaneously. Yes, I love the March sisters that much🥰 Jane Eyre is actually on my TBR but I want to buy the penguin classic book instead of downloading on audible or kindle. Hopefully I'll buy it some time soon, but I'm such a procrastinator I doubt it😂

Thank you so much for supporting this! And yes, I totally understand because that's one of my goals too from reading more. It's not just something I enjoy, but something that's productive and I can learn a lot from. Glad to see other people kind of are in the same mindset! I hope you fulfill all your reading goals for this year, fighting! <3

AGGTM is amazing isn’t it?! There’s a BBC show if it being produced now. And Powerless was a fun read, although I felt like it was a mash of a bunch of ya books - think Red Queen x Hunger Games, so not much originally so to say but still a good book.

Yes Scythe is such an underrated dystopian! Be warned it’s not as similar to ‘dystopia’ when you think of Hunger Games, Maze Runner etc (although those are brilliant), but it is still great nonetheless. It is a trilogy but it’s one of those that you can read the first one and then you don’t have to pick up the other two. I find it to be one of the few ya books that focused on an interesting plot rather than putting a lot of emphasis on romance and popular tropes (although I won’t deny I love these in moderation 😂 ).

I haven’t read Grapes of Wrath, but OMAM is very short novella, just over a hundred pages I think? It’s set in the 1950s I think around the Great Dustbowl, and focuses on some ranchers who are in America looking for the American dream. It’s fast paced, I think only six chapters in total so if you want quite a short read it’s a good one to go for. It looks at a lot of issues in the context of the 1950s such as racism and sexism, and it supposedly represents the reality of the time in America. If you like history there’s a lot of historical context around the book as well.

Any other classics you’d recommend? I’d really like to get into them, but I got scared starting Pride and Prejudice when there were about 7 girls with really similar names and I kept getting confused 😂 Although I loved the film the book was confusing to me.

Hey everyonee!!
So, this has absolutely got nothing to do with academics... well kinda lol, but I wanted to do a book diary thread.
I'm not really much of reader, well at least am not anymore, and want to start getting back into it. Not for any particular reasons, but I'm going to be doing english lit for a-levels and my english teacher told me it's good to read a variety of books to deepen understanding of literature.
I'm starting this today, no idea when i will end it. maybe no time soon ahaha.
My goal is to read one book a week starting from christmas day which is a monday!
I'll be leaving a review everytime a finish reading a book with my thoughts, opinions, ratings etc.
I used to be quite the die hard reader a couple of years💀 but then stopped but I really do feel like now is the time to rekindle my passion with books and reading.
Thank you so much to anyone who wants to keep up with this and if yall have any book suggestions leave them down below👇 (they can literally be anything, from classics to booktok fics, i dont mind😂).
Have a lovely day x

oooo i'm following ❤️

omg hi!! i follow your gyg blog ahaha. avid fan here😁 hope you enjoy! <33

AGGTM is one the best decisions of my life😪 The whole plot of that trilogy is brain tickling in the best way possible😆 Yess the show! emma myers as pippa was suchhhh a moveee. shes gonna eat that role. she's literally perfect except the hair length but like whos getting into the nitty gritty?
Ok yeah, when I though dystopian my mind when immediately to the classics like the hunger games and maze runner😂 it doesnt really bother me it not like those books, at the end of the day if i like it, i like it. no matter who reminiscent it is or isnt of a book that genre. so safe to say, scythe is already on my tbr list lmaoo.
A random question, but since you mentioned romance tropes, whats your favorite trope🤣?
I like hsitory but not when you put it in the context of books... I just think its going to be very hard to convince me to pick up another steinbeck book😔.
The pride and prejudice movie was good rightt?? i mean keira knightley as elizabeth was just chefs kiss. and that infamous darcy hand flex scene + the scene in the rain? perfection.
I haven't read a lot of classics and it's a field of lit im new to. But from whatever experience I do have, my recommendations are a picture of dorian gray (i mean its on everyone 'classics for beginners list, but srsly this book is my number 1 fav classics. 100000/10 fr), frankenstein (its controversial, it has mixed reviews. some hated it, some loved it. im on the latter side), bell jar by sylvia plath (gets into the qishy washy about mental health but who doesnt love a good psychological book? i had no complaints, this book was a literal masterpiece. heavily recommend), 1984 (hands down one of the best dystopian classics, really famous too), the da vinci code (its such a niche, but i liked this book better than i thought i was going to be, but i will say its a lengthy book) and metamorphosis by franz kafka (any kafka is just ughhh, would also recommend his 'letter to his father' books, i mean its hearbreakingly good. oh and dostoyevsky is amazingg too. just russian lit in general. i've only read the brothers karamazov from him and heard his other books are good too (i want to read crime and punishment by him) but boyyy, are his stories long. so i wouldnt recommend if youre totally new to classics because the brothers karamazov was a lengthy piece of work and i didnt even understand half the time but loved it in the end anyways?? (that makes zero sense but idk how else to explain it🤣🤣🤣)
anyways those are just my recommendations. if you check them out, lmk what you think!🤗

I always wanted to be an author (who knows, maybe side job when I'm a doctor? 😂) but I could never write a murder mystery - how authors like Holly Jackson do it I don't know.
I think I have the Picture of Dorian Grey, but have never heard much about it. I'm definitely going to look at it now.
Tropes...so many. Enemies to lovers is good, not a big fan of love triangles because it's always so clear and then you're waiting for them to just pick, the 'who hurt you' trope is goood, I feel like it really shows how much they care. My favourite genre is fantasy ya so those are normally the tropes I've seen, but others I've seen that I don't mind are fake dating and friends to lovers. How about you? Any favourites?