Drama-Lovers Book Club

 justanotherrey:

I read a lot this month. I was in a drama slump this month, so all that time was put into books. Overall, a pleasant reading month, have found a couple of favorites that would like to revisit and reread.

This actually sounds a lot like what ended up happening to me! Also, you have fantastic reading taste, wow. I remember adoring People We Meet on Vacation and I also read The Housekeeper and the Professor this month and gave it 4/5! 

 justanotherrey:

The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yōko Ogawa

An utterly beautiful novel about the mundane experience of creating bonds with the people you never expect to.
There's a lot of maths and the application of it towards nature and everyday life.

Glad you liked it too!

 sarabelles:

I remember adoring People We Meet on Vacation and I also read The Housekeeper and the Professor this month and gave it 4/5!

These were 2 of my favs out of this month! Glad that you liked it too!

 sarabelles:

Beartown by Fredrik Backman. - A new favorite! Gosh Backman just can't disappoint.

I've been meaning to read both Anxious People and Beartown for a while! Will be picking it up soon. I have a good feeling about Fredrik Backman. 

Hi there, fellow readers!

Taking this opportunity to wish everyone a happy lunar new year which starts tomorrow! :)

As for my reading update...

January 2022 - Completed: Diary of a Former Covidiot: Tales of Panic Buying, Surviving and Finding Humour during the Coronavirus Pandemic

I started this book in December last year as a source of light-hearted reading as it was quite a hectic month in terms of the festivities and also a number of fascinating dramas were on air.

It's an easygoing book that most folks could relate to, especially in my part of the world, about dealing with the pandemic and surviving the challenging lockdowns that were imposed, with a touch of humour in the storytelling.

February 2022: The Betel Nut Tree Mystery

For the coming month, I'll be continuing with book 2 of the Crown Colony series by Ovidia Yu, after completing the first book some time last year. It's back to the detective investigation genre again :)

Have a great month ahead and happy reading! XD

 justanotherrey:

I gotta watch the movie adaptation too! How was it?

Personally, I loved it! Beautiful cinematography and music, great cast and reserved, poetic story telling, close to the book's atmosphere.

 WandereR:

Taking this opportunity to wish everyone a happy lunar new year which starts tomorrow! :)

Happy New Year  dear fellow readers!!

Hi there ! Being male I often read female books on purpose to get that side of perspective, especially korean or japanese authors. Recently I read the following:

Kim Jiyoung - Born 1982

I guess as it's a bestseller novel and got into a movie already, most will know it already...it kind of really opens your eyes on the problems not only Korean women/mothers go through in a society and how important it is to address and speak about all the issues that some would think have been overcome already...not the case...no wonder Korean birth rates are at an all time low...

Emi Yagi - Diary of a Void 

 ...set in Japan. A women telling her colleagues that she's pregnant (while she's not)...and all out of a sudden everybody becomes more nice...when I went to Japan for university you can really sense those annoying issues still stuck in some mens brain. Despite the serious topic also a fun read. I read in German, the title is even more funny: "Frau Shibatas geniale Idee" - "Frau Shibatas brilliant idea" :-)

Mieko Kawakmi - Heaven

A story of two bullied teenagers in Japan. Really depressive what those two undergoo everyday, yet they find some hope by writing each other letters, just those bullies won't stop...such a good manifest against bullying packed in a superb philosophical writing style.

Hope you gained some interest in those, arelady read them, share your opinion or can point me to other nice female authors' books from the region.

Hello, I haven't been able to read much due to school but I recently read US THREE by Ruth jones

So the story is about three friends who have been together since they were 8 years old and sworn best friends till they're in college, later some things happened that break apart the trio, regardless of fallen friendship they accustomed to meet the question is will they be able to go back to being friends and that's the storyy in the latter half 

  It was a fine book, not the greatest but interesting enough to keep me going, Some of the characters and the events in this book are really unlikable and unfavorable but since it was a book I was about to look past it and sympathize with them i feel like if it was a drama with unlikable characters I wouldn't be hesitant to drop it just a thought that crossed my mind when i was rooting for the unlikeable characters.

spoilers about my  final thought  

i honestly think they shouldn't be friends they should have been kept apart they're not the greatest people for each other