The Buddy Reads/ Read-alongs Connection thread - Page 10

Originally posted by: Queen0fDarkness

Enigma - Runyx

Originally posted by: Shirsha

Bold@ Did you read his dramas in school?

Red@ Give me some time. I'll let you know.

Yup. I had had them in my senior grades Julius Caesar, Midsummer’s Night dream are also my favourites. My English teacher was enamoured with Shakespeare, so that in turn made us love the dramas. I didn’t have Macbeth though. I read it in college for some reason, but it’s been some time since.

@b: Sure, take your time! If you feel you want to read alone, that is okay with me too! Totally up to you.

Originally posted by: missFiesty_69

Yup. I had had them in my senior grades Julius Caesar, Midsummer’s Night dream are also my favourites. My English teacher was enamoured with Shakespeare, so that in turn made us love the dramas. I didn’t have Macbeth though. I read it in college for some reason, but it’s been some time since.

@b: Sure, take your time! If you feel you want to read alone, that is okay with me too! Totally up to you.

Bold@ Did you do honours in English literature in the past? I'm asking this because you said you read Macbeth in college.

Originally posted by: Shirsha

I've created a list of books that I want to read. If anyone is interested in buddy-reading any of the books with me, they can comment.

Horror

1) The Shining - Stephen King

2) Carrie - Stephen King

3) The Heart-shaped Box - Joe Hill (Stephen King's son)

4) Coraline - Neil Gaiman

5) The Woman in Black - Susan Hill

6) How to Sell a Haunted House - Grady Hendrix

Thriller

1) The Reappearance of Rachel Price - Holly Jackson

2) If Tomorrow Comes - Sidney Sheldon

3) Never Lie - Frieda McFadden

4) The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave

5) The Girl in the Glass Case - Devashish Sardana

Children's books

1) Stuart Little - E.B.White

2) The BFG - Roald Dahl

3) The Wishing Chair Series -Enid Blyton

i) Adventures of the Wishing-Chair

ii) The Wishing Chair Again

iii) More Wishing Chair Stories

4) The Magic Drum and Other Favourite Stories - Sudha Murthy

5) Thick as Thieves: Tales of Friendship - Ruskin Bond

Classic literature

1) Macbeth - William Shakespeare

2) Hamlet - William Shakespeare

3) Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

4) Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare

5) Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

6) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

6) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (translated from Russian)

7) The Stranger - Albert Camus (translated from French)

Fantasy

1) Monsters of Verity duology - Victoria Schwab

i) The Savage Song

ii) Our Dark Duet

2) The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

3) The Ten Thousand Doors of January- Alix E. Harrow

4) The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

Japanese books

1) The Morisaki Bookshop duology - Satoshi Yagisawa

i) Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

ii) More Days at Morisaki Bookshop

2) Cafe series - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

i) Before the Coffee Gets Cold

ii) Tales of the Cafe

iii) Before Your Memory Fades

iv) Before We Say Goodbye

v) Before We Forget Kindness

3) The Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

4) The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa

5) The Goodbye Cat - Hiro Arikawa

6) Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami (His most popular book)

Non-fiction books

1) How Not to Write a Novel - Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman

2) Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose

Bengali Books (this one is only applicable to Bengali participants of the reading challenge)

1) Sera Satyajit - Satyajit Roy (my favorite author)

2) Aro Satyajit - Satyajit Roy

3) Professor Shanku Samagra - Satyajit Roy

4) Feluda Ekadash - Satyajit Roy

5) Neel Manush - Sunil Gongopadhyay

6) Ami Serial Killer Bolchi - Anish Deb

Originally posted by: missFiesty_69

I’m not in a no smut phase. In fact I read smut if there’s some good romance / conversation/ angst accompanying it — but dark romance these days is overwhelmingly full of smut

My mind literally went like all smut and no talk makes Vera a very aggravated reader so I stopped picking up dark. I can do without the visual p*rn thanks.

I love my dark romance but I need it to have a balance of plot + smut. If it's just spicy scenes with. no plot then that's basically like reading erotica, and if there's a good plot but no smut then it seems too bland for me. I like my stories to be intense.. But the main thing for me to get hooked is the plot has to be strong!

Originally posted by: Shirsha

Bold@ Did you do honours in English literature in the past? I'm asking this because you said you read Macbeth in college.

nope. I had English as a common subject so I guess we had to do some assignment of sorts. I took up Shakespeare because I like his dramas.

Originally posted by: heavenlybliss

I love my dark romance but I need it to have a balance of plot + smut. If it's just spicy scenes with. no plot then that's basically like reading erotica, and if there's a good plot but no smut then it seems too bland for me. I like my stories to be intense.. But the main thing for me to get hooked is the plot has to be strong!

exactly na!! dark romance/ forbidden romance is good only if the plot is compelling. If I wanted to read smut, I could have stuck to erotica, which personally is boring for me.

Conversations between the MCs, grey shaded characters, a good plot makes for a really good dark romance!

ab toh sab Wattpad jaise hogaye and I stopped picking up dark romance.

Originally posted by: Moonstique

Hidden shadow is going to release this month (that's just a 🍉 tho). So, why should I bother reading it when I can actually watch the drama anytime soon

I found HDY's epub version on Z Lib

Btw, mydramanovel has that novel completed already, no?! It's name is Sheng Si Di Fei over there

How do you guys still use z lib. It doesnt work for me anymore saying my account isnt activated but it is!!

Shirsha I'd love to read Satyajit ray...can you provide the links through pm.

I'll be reading both Macbeth and Twelfth Night at some point this month if you'd like to join me!

No immediate plans to read The Ten Thousand Doors of January or The Night Circus as of right now, but definitely at some point this year! (aka whenever my library will let me have them)

Also, let me know what you think of The Stranger. (Wasn't for me personally.)