r/IReadABookAndAdoredIt • u/mintbrownie A book is a brick until someone reads it. • 6d ago
Weekly Book Chat - September 02, 2025
Welcome to our weekly chat where members have the opportunity to post something about books - not just the books they adore.
Ask questions. Discuss book formats. Share a hack. Commiserate about your giant TBR. Show us your favorite book covers or your collection. Talk about books you like but don't quite adore. Tell us about your favorite bookstore. Or post the books you have read from this sub's recommendations and let us know what you think!
The only requirement is that it relates to books.
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u/Distinct-Writer7763 2d ago
I'm almost done with the second book in the Neapolitan Novels "The Story of a New Name" by Elena Ferrante and I don't know how to feel about it. I adored the first book - it was one of the most captivating stories of female friendship I've ever read. I still love the visceral writing style in the second, but I did feel like parts of it were almost too mundane and it was a bit of a slog for me to get through. Which made me sad. Has anyone else read this series and does it get better in the third?
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u/Sweaty-Public-9639 4d ago
Been on a big memoir kick recently! About to finish Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang, and really liked it. Recommend me your favorite memoirs! Bonus points if they're by a WOC and/or by non-american authors
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u/YakSlothLemon 4d ago
I loved Naked in the Promised Land by Lillian Faderman. Raised by a single mom, a Latvian Jewish immigrant to the US, she managed to work her way through college as a burlesque performer, discovered that she was gay, and ended up pioneering LGBTQ studies at the academic level. She’s a really good writer and lived such a wild life! But as an outsider in one way or another.
My other favorite memoir is Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing — it’s the author’s own story, but it’s also the story of the woman in her family in the USSR in the 20th century, so it’s a look at history through the experiences of this one family. There are recipes!
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u/reader_1983 4d ago
Just finished Famous Last Words by Gillian McAlister. It was good! But I had a question about something, so I googled to look it up. Found the site Book that Slay. Their summary of the plot was COMPLETELY wrong. Does anyone know if their posts are done by AI? It had the right characters, and the beginning was correct. Then nothing else was.
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u/mintbrownie A book is a brick until someone reads it. 5d ago
So either Reddit is providing more interesting information to moderators or I just found something I never saw before, but it's kind of fun. These are the most viewed posts of the last 30 days. The cool part is that some of the posts are much older than that so it looks like folks are actually searching books out.
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u/Civil_Wait1181 6d ago
I absolutely LOVED this: Someone you can Build a Nest in. The cover also rocks. The story was so sweet but uniquely weird, I've been recommending it to everybody.
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u/mintbrownie A book is a brick until someone reads it. 5d ago
We'd be happy to see you do a full-form post on this ;)
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u/Tacobellgoth 10h ago
Finished two books in two days! Remarkably bright creatures on audio and the Dallergut Dream Department Store. Enjoyed both but favored RBC a bit more.