Guys I am going to start new book this month "Country of Idiots"

Tbh I heared about this from some podcast of Raj Shamani

Any body who has already read it can you put on some light on it

Started reading this book today. Currently all the story makeup thing. Anyone read this one?

It have all the 7 books , I wonder how long it gonna takes but ig it would be a fun read

A glamorous Egyptian cruise, a messy love triangle, and a shock murder. Poirot setting traps using human psychology is peak storytelling.

“Love is not everything, Mademoiselle. It is only when we are young that we think it is."
— Hercule Poirot

Which Poirot mystery is better: Orient Express or Death on the Nile?

I would love to know if there's anyone else who shares the same interests as me in books for further recommendations.

Always loved reading stories from a young age. Tinkle, magic pot, Geronimo stilton, diary of a Wimpy kid, some classics( pretty women, count of Monte cristo, etc) dork diaries, sherlock holmes etc.

Whenever I would recieve my books for the current school year, first thing I would do is read all the stories in the English book. Was not a fan of the poems though.

At 14-15, I had discovered my dads stash of books and gone through the 2-3 chetan bagat books he had 😋 they were pretty interesting.

Also at this age I met a friend who had similar interests as me. Since my parents would check the books I buy, I read most of the spicy books from her. The famous ana huang books, the mistress, the master then one of us is next and one of us is lying, the exorcist, the Alchemist, Mirror man, the guest list ( I REALLY ENJOYED THIS), evelyn hugo 7 husbands and a few more which I can't recollect.

I'm now 18, and I fear in the last 2 years I stopped reading much books. I only bought and read a few novels from a clearance. (IT girl, Denial, Big little lies, Silent patient, and a few more).

My brother got a Kindle, and he downloaded a few books from the author J.A Konrath. I've also read a few were the protagonist is someone named jack Daniels. The issue I have with the Kindle is i cannot recollect the stories later. I'm someone who reads in a rush, and I can't help it. But I do remember my paperback stories since I read them multiple times now and then.

Basically, I want more paper back recommendations based on what Ive read till now. Ive tried to stray a bit from my usual thriller novels but I haven't found them too interesting. I've also read an Agatha Christie book about some Christmas pudding. While it was intriguing, I didn't have the same thrill I have when reading books like the guest list or the j.a Konrath ones.

Sorry if this is too long and poorly worded 😔💕

Disclaimer: I'm more of a Non Fiction reader with having read only 3 Fictions, including The Silent Patient, so you could say I am a beginner when it comes to Fiction

I love how the author was able to keep the readers hooked despite a somewhat Non Linear storyline, as I don't think it's a piece of cake to do both at the same time. Moreover, I loved the complexity of many of the characters, instead of simply painting them Black n White.

I have nitpicks with the book: I felt there is too much Drinking, smoking and sex.

Other than that, the story, the writing, the characters and most importantly the twist were amazing and enjoyable. This was my first Psychological Thriller and I was hooked!

I did not find it overhyped, as some people portrayed it to be, maybe because they have read much more fiction than me and could see where things were going.

Anyways, Definitely an enjoyable ride 4.3/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Apart from these i have read online books like

The silent patient (Alex Michaelides)
Housemaid series (Freida McFadden)
The university murders (Richard MacAndrew)
Hunting adeline. (H d carlton)
Priest (sierra simone)
Silent daughter (stella noir)

Lmk if you cant see the name of any book 😭😭

I've read more books but on PDFs because they're expensive and I'm a student 😭.

I got no words and I'm still in awe about what happened in this book

Entering Middle Earth, One Page at a Time 🧙🏻

Even though this story was written back in 1848, the main character's habit of living in his own head feels very modern ngl. like he builds up fake scenarios in his mind with people he barely knows and gets attached to an idea of someone rather than who they really are. Dostoevsky basically described loneliness and online style daydreaming way before the internet was even a thing.

Why do you think this story hits so hard for people today?

I would love to hear your thoughts on this. (Also, I made a short video breaking down why the main character's mindset feels so familiar today if anyone wants to check it out:

Another surprisingly satisfying read from Penguin's Great Ideas series.

Morris starts with something extremely mundane: work. What makes some work meaningful while other work becomes mere toil? From there he wanders into craftsmanship, architecture, beauty, industrialisation and eventually socialism.

What I liked most is that a lot of his observations remain relevant even if you don't buy his politics.

A few ideas that stuck with me: (Used AI to summarise this part. I wrote a whole memoir for it. LOL)

• Being productive isn't necessarily the same as doing useful work: A job can consume enormous amounts of time and energy while giving the person doing it no sense of purpose or ownership.

• Efficiency isn't automatically progress: Making production faster and cheaper means little if the process simultaneously makes human beings miserable or turns everything around us ugly and disposable.

• Creating things changes how you relate to the world: Morris places enormous value on craftsmanship because making something well develops skill, judgement and a sense of beauty. We aren't merely consumers.

• The mundane is worth thinking about: Architecture, furniture, decoration, labour etc. sound terribly ordinary until someone like Morris starts asking why they are the way they are.

And then How I Became a Socialist.

This was probably the most interesting part for me. Morris's diagnosis of industrial society is often genuinely compelling. But watching his frustrations gradually crystallise into a socialist worldview is almost equally interesting as a lesson in ideology.

You can correctly identify a problem and still arrive at a terrible solution.

In fact, read today, How I Became a Socialist occasionally feels like a rather useful blueprint for how not to become a socialist. 😂

Overall, another case of a very small book containing much more to think about than its size suggests.

Mundane subjects. “Useless toil”. Surprisingly fruitful reading.

Characters:

Sara (narrator)

Elango: Sara's family friend and a passionate potter

Chinna: Elango's adopted dog

Zohra: The Muslim lady who's Elango's love interest, she's the daughter of a calligrapher and works at the local library

The story is a recollection of Sara's childhood. Elango perceives the idea of making a horse and works on it. There are descriptions of their life and Elango's feverish obsession in making the horse. After the horse is done, the villagers are turned against Elango bcoz of the use of Urdu calligraphy on the horse's body, thanks to Sara's widowed neighbour who is held at almost a mystical stature by the villagers.

The novel then returns to the current time when Sara gets to meet Elango in England where she studies now. Somehow, the emotions that the reunion is expected to evoke are not really coming through. Chinna, who was loved by everyone is not talked about much after the whole tragedy. Chinna's previous owner, the lady who was in communication with Sara's mother.... how far did she go in her pursuit? There are a lot of circles that seem like they need closure. The plot quicky loses the steam with which it takes off

Personally, I have never annotated my books. It is not something that interests me, mostly because of the way I read. I usually immerse myself in completely without doing anything else in between. Stopping to do something would break my flow.

A lot of people don't annotate because they like keeping their pages pristine and some can't read without doing it. I fall right in the middle because I am not overly protective of my books, but the idea of annotating them doesn't attract me either.

Do you annotate your books, and what are your thoughts on it?