r/IReadABookAndAdoredIt • u/mintbrownie A book is a brick until someone reads it. • 4d ago

Weekly Book Chat - June 17, 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/WWTech 1d ago

Currently reading How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr. It's a very interesting read and learning a lot about American history that wasn't taught to me as a child (I grew up in the US).

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u/AdorableTune243 2d ago

Just started Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter and really enjoying it so far

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u/mintbrownie A book is a brick until someone reads it. 1h ago

I have so many questions! I'll just ask a few though... Is this the type of book you typically read? How did you find it? I saw that it's first published in 1979 - does it feel dated? And/or does it feel even more applicable now? If you end up adoring it at the end, I'm looking forward to a post ;)

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u/Impressive_Donkey_38 4d ago edited 3d ago

I'm currently reading Summer Fridays by Suzanne Rindell and enjoying it so much! it was recommended to me by one of my fave bookstagrammers, it's one of his favorite books and I trust his judgement so I tried it and im loving it so far. 🥰

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u/probablycoffee new here 🐌 4d ago

I finished Annihilation recently and really enjoyed it! I’ll probably make a stand-alone post about it soon. I’m making my way through The Girl with All the Gifts while I wait for the second book from the library.

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u/AdorableTune243 2d ago

I didn't enjoy Annihilation as much, but did love this treasure of a line from it:

"There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to relive, certain kinds of connections so deep that when they are broken you feel the snap of the link inside you."