Welcome to Hive Book Club Highlight #335

Announcement

📌 Here are some of our current backlog & notes that we'll be finishing this week at the latest:

✅Announcing the main winner for our 4th anniversary( our raffle was won by @oluchi) ✅ For those who are eligible for the badge but haven't got the badge, please feel free mentioning us and we'll reply to you as soon as possible. ✅ We are also active on snaps, so please check our snaps regularly as most updates that are short will be announced there. ✅Winner from last book prompt is @ninaeatshere

🔗 Weekly Prompt For March 17th-23th 2025

This week, we'll be exploring something that has been taken into question for a while in our community. While our community is filled with written literature, we would love to send reminders that our community has its place for graphic novels enthusiast including manga, manhwa and comics. So, we'd like to know, " What do you think are the biggest reasons for people to hesitate reading graphic novels/manga?" ### 🔎What do you think are the biggest reasons for people to hesitate/less reluctant to read manga/graphic novels? ✅Winner is chosen by whose post received most comments and foster discussion. ✅Winner of this week prompt will receive 5 Hive ✅Do not forget the tag #mondayhivebookprompt

Today we're highlighting some of these content that you might enjoy. Check them out & don't forget to engage.

Author: @jessuses1381 https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@jessuses1381/review-diferent-or-a-brilliant-mind-in-a-challenging-body-eng-esp

Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing great, today I want to talk to you about a very interesting book, it's: Different, by Eloy Moreno, I started reading it without having any idea what it was about, because, strangely enough... You get into the story blindly and you discover it as if you were opening a present... and what a gift... the protagonist, Luna, is a 13 year old girl who has a brilliant mind, but her body... well, her body puts up a lot of obstacles... She lives with ALS, Tourette's, and brain cancer, but the way she sees the world is unique, incredible, from page one, Luna is not just another character... her ability to learn languages so easily, her way of finding patterns where others only see a mess, and how she challenges adults with questions that leave you speechless, make her someone you can't ignore, she doesn't fit into what society calls 'normal', and that makes you think, what the hell does it really mean to be 'normal'?

Author: @ramisey

https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@ramisey/nature-reflections-and-meneses-espeng-kng

By chance I came across, like a leaf falling from a tree in autumn, the book Ten Stories by Guillermo Meneses, one of the most outstanding Venezuelan writers of any era. As I delve into the pages I have rediscovered, since I had the opportunity to analyze part of his narrative at the university, a clear portrait of human nature, since his themes are based on dementia, failure, marginality, loss of identity and misery, on prominent and crude scenarios.

Author: @altheana

https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@altheana/book-review--the-seven-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle-by-stuart-turton-revue--les-sept-morts-develyn-hardcastle-de-stuart-turton

Actually, I can't find the time to read anymore. I started reading again towards the end of January, with "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle," and I only just finished it a few days ago. So, I'm back to give you a little review. 📖

Author: @noemilunastorta https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@noemilunastorta/the-sound-of-water-review

Here I am again hivers, today unfortunately I saw that the platform was acting up and I couldn't publish or interact but I'm happy that hive is back online! Here I am reviewing a book that I found by chance in my city library and that I really liked, a very well written Indian fiction book. The story is about Raimoti a man who is a slave to some bad vices, a man who has a difficult life but also a philosopher's mind even though he is frowned upon by many he has a certain genius. He sacrificed his life to allow his brother to study, Raimoti chose to work in the mine of his town, a black hole in the earth that steals lives and makes workers live in darkness, life in the mine is a hard life to bear especially because of the numerous dangers including the noise of the water which is a great danger, a drip that can lead to a flood that under the tunnels in the ground is almost certainly fatal. But the book does not only explore the life of Raimoti but also of his brother and the engineer in charge of the mine with his broken dreams and a harsh bureaucracy. Then one day Raimoti hears the sound of water and from that moment it will be a fight for life underground, a desperate race along the tunnels and above the ground a bouncing of responsibilities between politicians and those in charge, a tragedy announced that shocks and involves an entire community that has given its life for the mine and that does not want to die for the underground black giant that is the mine, source of life or death?

Author: @javyeslava.photo

https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@javyeslava.photo/espeng-fahrenheit-451-man-against-books-book-review-jiy

All those books you see in the picture at some point I reviewed them here and it's been a while since I didn't read anything new, I like reading but it's a habit that is hard for me to get started. Fortunately I was recently able to change that and I finished reading this great classic of literature written by the American Ray Bradbury. It is a book that has been published more than 70 years ago, but the relevance of its pages with respect to the world we are living in is alarming. And it is so because the author at that time describes the world of the book as a dystopia where having one's own criteria, thinking, having the ability to question things, in short, having different opinions is considered a crime.

Author: @erigm

https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@erigm/book-review-senda-sangrienta-esen

Hello fellow readers, are you into reading books about vampires? Because today I bring you the review about one of them, and no, it's not like Twilight, but the opposite (I love Twilight anyway, so if it was similar I wouldn't dislike it either). I'm talking about Senda sangrienta by author Hernán Montenegro.

Author: @audiarmisg

https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@audiarmisg/book-review-normal-people-my-opinion-espeng

The third month of the year, and I’ve only just finished my first book—and I have to confess, I struggled through it from beginning to end. Normal People is the title I’ll be talking about today, written by Sally Rooney. It’s a young adult novel, and from what I understand, there’s a series inspired by the book.

Author: @jhymi

https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@jhymi/a-reader-s-highs-and

But there was something that happened before this that makes me think that it may not be because of the exams. Remember when I had the streak of downloading and reading purely Nigerian books? Well, one of the books I downloaded was “What is not yours is not yours,” by Helen Oyeyemi. From the name, you can immediately tell that it’s written by a Nigerian. And so, I was looking forward to reading it. I read a series of books which I reviewed. And then I decided that it was finally time to pick this one up.

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