Drama-Lovers Book Club

While discussing among good friends, we realized that we really miss our love and dedication to reading books, so we came up with the idea of organizing a forum dedicated to books, aka "Drama-Lovers Book Club".

Everyone is welcomed to join at any time and post the book titles they picked for reading – and perhaps 1-2 phrases about their thoughts about them.

This isn’t literally a challenge, but a way to motivate each other to start reading books again, as well as an opportunity to discover new titles among people whom we share similar tastes in dramas and movies with!

Banners for our club members, courtesy of @Wandering Queen, @Poia, @Hazel and @Rien can be found in the following links, respectively:

https://mydramalist.com/discussions/general-discussion/59031-drama-lovers-book-club-a-book-a-month?pid=1529705&page=6#p1529705

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Feel free to join ❣

February 

Once Upon a Town

True story, supposed to be heart-warming and uplifting. :)

Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen: Greene, Bob: 9780060081973: Amazon.com: Books 

> January Books <

→ Robert Ziębiński "Wspaniałe Życie" (in English the title would be: Wonderful Life)

This was actually my reread. I read it for the first time over a year ago. It's a dark comedy + drama, and when I say dark, it's darker than a black hole. It's about an alcoholic starting his "alcohol free journey". 

→ Jane Borodale "The Book of Fires". As goodreads put it "a captivating debut novel of fireworks, fortune, and a young woman's redemption". This is definitely not a book I would usually read, and I bought it only coz I liked the summary at the back cover, coz it legit said nothing about the plot. Now, it's one of my favorite books in the past few years. 

> February Books <

→ Robert Browne "The Paradise Prophecy". It's about a "war" between Heavens and Hell, but that's about to take place on Earth, and the main characters (dude who knows hella lots about religions and a detective) are trying to figure out the heck is going on and how to stop it. 

→ Pearl S. Buck "The Living Reed". Goodreads: The Living Reed follows four generations of one family, the Kims, beginning with Il-han and his father, both advisors to the royal family in Korea. Honestly, not a book I would usually read so we will see. It was bday present I've got like in high school? So years ago lol 

→ Arkady Vaksberg " Łysina Lenina: Wspomnienia Adwokata" (in English the title would be: Lenin's boldness: Memories of the Lawyer). Basically bunch of real court cases that happened in Soviet Union. Either they are suppose to be funny or hella crazy. 

→ Bogdan Wojciszke, Marcin Rotkiewicz "Homo nie całkiem sapiens" (in English the title would be: Homo, not quite sapiens). It's an interview styled book. A journalist (Rotkiewicz) talks with social psychologist (Wojcieszke, hella famous polish psychologist) about many social issues like: politics, morality, power and psychological aspects associated with them. 

So, to be transparent with you all, I already started reading February picks few days ago, since I finished my January books earlier than expected. + I'm always reading one YA book in English, as a side thing. But it's never "one per month" but rather": read when you are outside (like bus) since it's on my phone. Right now it's Amanda Hocking's "Switched". 

# drama-lovers book club: “A Book A Month”

Since I start this challenge in February, I don't have a book to share from January.
The book that I pick for February is this:

❆ How to Get Things Done by Ann Jackman ❆

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/347664.How_to_Get_Things_Done

I have this book in my Plan to Read (PTR) for years but I somehow never get passed a few pages even though it's a really nice book.
I hope with this challenge, I finally find determination to finish it in a month. It has 144 pages, it was first published in 2003 and have been republished by different publishers whole around the world.
Let's do this!

P.s. Ah, I prefer to read non fiction so I mostly will pick and post non fiction books every month.

 JJChastity:

# drama-lovers book club: “A Book A Month”

Since I start this challenge in February, I don't have a book to share from January.
The book that I pick for February is this:

❆ How to Get Things Done by Ann Jackman ❆

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/347664.How_to_Get_Things_Done

I have this book in my Plan to Read (PTR) for years but I somehow never get passed a few pages even though it's a really nice book.
I hope with this challenge, I finally find determination to finish it in a month. It has 144 pages, it was first published in 2003 and have been republished by different publishers whole around the world.
Let's do this!

P.s. Ah, I prefer to read non fiction so I mostly will pick and post non fiction books every month.

I'd already made a resolution to start reading books in my PTR pile or give them away.  Like you, I read mostly non-fiction.   Looking forward to hearing about this book when you are done!  :)

 JJChastity:

Yes, I will tell you about it. I also have a bunch of PTR. I hope with this challenge, I could finish 11 books this year. My challenge on goodreads have never succeeded but here with a club of readers, I hope I could be more determined. :)

With so many good friends motivating each other, we will definitely succeed!

 penel:

With so many good friends motivating each other, we will definitely succeed!

Yes, I hope so. Thanks for coming up with this idea. 

 Kate:

I try my best lol It always depends on how many pages the books have, but I try to read 2-4 books per month. I always loved to read. In elementary school I always had a first place in the library's contest on the highest number of borrowed books lol So, I guess I've been "trained" to read a lot since I was a small kid. Tho, there are some months I'm unable to finished even one book, if the work gets busy. 

That's a good habit and the fact you can keep up on it is even more amazing. My habit of reading a lot ends at highschool. I used to be stuck in the school library and city library. But ever since I got obsessed with dramas, reading becomes almost non existence.  I'm going to make them co-exist. I will learn from you. ^-^