30F seeking book buddies for yapping and hyping (preferable from Europe)! < w <
Hello, hello lovely souls,
u can call me Pluto, I am female, 30 years old and (desperately) seeking book buddies around my age.
I can't quite recall the last time I had been in an active "book club group chat" and I have to admit that I miss the interactions that usually come with it. Most of the time, the formed groups broke up or rather got inactive after a book had been finished, so I figured it might be nice to rather look for people, who like to yap about the books they recently bought and love to hype the last stories they got lost in, because they had been simply world changing to them. There is no necessary need to read the exact same books, as long as you like to interact with someone about a common hobby.
I feel that a huge favorite of mine currently is crime/thriller and nonfiction, hold up, wait for the end and don't immidiately skip this add, pls! There is more!
I am looking for recommandations in these two genres, since I found my love to them later on in life. So far, I've read the crime/thriller books by Uketsu and really, really enjoyed them. I also started The Housemaid, which had an interesting plottwist. I also remeber that I really enjoyed the atmosphere of Girl on the Train.
As for nonfiction, I developed a huge interest in astrology since the beginning of the year. Also I really love to get my hands on books that talk about life-changing tools, uncovering secrets and even mythology of various cultures, like Ikigai or The Four-way Path, for example.
The books I usually love to get lost in often have way more fantasy aspects in them. My absolute favorite since a few years now is Before the coffee gets cold. I love cozy fantasy that confronts you with a harsh thruth right upfront.
Otherwise, I am also a huge fan of young adult (Six of Crows, The invisibvle life of Addie LaRue, Caraval, Katabasis), the classics (Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, 1984), fairy tales of various cultures as well as mangas (CLAMP, Nana, The summer Hikaru died, To your erternity).
I am pretty late to the game, so there are still a lot of books which prominent readers probably already have read twice before, haha. Therefore, I'd appreciate people who kinda struggle with finding the time to sit down and read daily. I don't mind if you are someone who actually reads a lot, don't get me wrong here. I do think that it could also be quite motivating to hear that someone actually manages to read through a few chapters per day. All I will definitely need is someone who doesn't try to either set me under pressure, whether it is about reading (especially when reading a book together, for example) or my general activity, since I am not someone who is able to be chronically online and responsive.
Now, why did i specifically ask for people from Europe? Though people from all around the globe are welcome to shoot me a DM. I love to interact mostly on Discord if I feel comfortable enough or, this time, preferably on Instagram, where we could also send each other reels of book recommendations (pretty, pretty pls)!
If I shall actually find people whom I can vibe with, though, I'd love to attend conventions together, preferably the Leipziger Buchmesse in Germany (yes, I myself am from Germany). Since I can't seem to find people in my inner circle who'd like to go with me, I am still hoping to find others who might suffer from the same problem and would love to go together.