✎ CS Book Club ✐

[wayhaught]

Radio Silence is actually our current recommendation of the month!! i loved it when i read it and i hope you will, too. let me know what you think! as for the others, i've heard of what if it's us, but iv'e never read it. it sounds good though.

[Scatterbrain]

I just finished Radio Silence, and
I rated it 4/5 stars on my goodreads account! c:

It was really good, and I could especially
relate to all the anxiety and school stress
the main character, Frances Janvier, was going through.
Actually, it was as if Alice Oseman had
opened my head, rummaged through my thoughts,
and wrote a book about all those thoughts. I could
relate to a bunch of it. I really wish University City
was a real podcast though!! It sounds super interesting, KIND of
creepy, and mysterious. I really liked Alice Oseman's
writing, too. It was easy to understand; Not very advanced,
but at the same time beautiful. I don't know what to say aaa-
it was an amazing read.

[wayhaught]

i totally agree, i love her writing style! it's pretty but not difficult for no reason. books like that were good for me when i was learning english

[Pyjaks]

Oh wow is English not your first language? I would noooot have guessed that, its really really good!

Also louise. since you mentioned goodreads, would anyone like to share accounts and be friends? :>

[wayhaught]

thank you! czech is actually my first language but i live in the u.s. now so i don't speak it very much in person, just in text talking to my family at home.

i would love too!! smellbig is my username on there.

[Wings.mov]

I got so excited when I found this thread and then I saw a few people were reading Radio Silence and I practically had a heart attack ahhh

I want to join the book club!
Username: Cherry.mov
Pronouns: She/her
Your favorite book and/or author: Hard to pick between a few but other than Radio Silence, H20 by Virginia Bergin has to be my favorite simply because it's been my favorite for a while now.
Why is this your favorite?: I love the narrative from Ruby's perceptive, the creativity of the scenario, and the storytelling as whole. It's about a teenage girl struggling to survive the apocalypse of killer-rain and all the things that come with it. I'm not sure how to explain it, even though I've re-read it so many times. As for her perspective, she's the quintessential popular teen but as to story goes on you learn she is more than that. She makes decisions that are sometimes questionable, doing things like dangerous make-up runs or insisting on brushing her teeth with the last of her clean water but that sort of drew me in. Like I said, it's weirdly hard to explain.
What genres do you like? Realistic fiction, but put any good fiction book in front of me and I'll probably like it
Fun fact about you: I read practically 24/7 but I'm a very poor writer and storyteller, feels bad man
Anything else?: Nope, I can't wait to be apart of this community though. I can't wait to rant about books lol

[wayhaught]

hi there, welcome!! good things are coming! i'm literally updating the front page as we speak so look out for a message coming up soon c;

so glad to see that radio silence is so popular, i had no idea!

edit: hi friends!! i've added a poll and a little message at the bottom of the member list post on the front page!! as a thank you for keeping this thread/club active, and as proof you've both read the message and voted in the poll, send me a private message with a check or something along those lines and i'll send you a little gift! thanks all <3 i'm so gladly this club is going so well. (( the little gift is only going to be for existing members, just to keep everything manageable for me ))

[Wings.mov]

The local librarian actually recommended Radio Silence to me a long while back and I hadn't gotten around to it but the library was selling old books for a quarter so I decided I might as well buy it a few months ago. She was right about me loving it, I ended up reading it in one sitting. I've tried to get a few people I know into reading it but none of them did, so I'm glad there are actually other people reading it. It seems very acclaimed but not a lot of people seem to know about it for some reason?

[wayhaught]

i love when librarians give recommendations! they all know the best books c:

(( p.s. a little update for you all! thanks all! ))

[_rιyα_]

I want to join the book club!
Username: sesquipedalian
Pronouns: She/her
Your favorite book and/or author: Aah why so hard.... It's gotta be Eliza & Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. As for favorite author, probably Patrick Ness.
Why is this your favorite?: I love the concept behind it; the idea that this otherwise ordinary girl created something that connects so many people. Plus, it made me cry, and I only cry when I really like a book. It kind of kills me how her parents had no idea how important Monstrous Sea was?!
And Patrick Ness... I just love how much emotion he puts into his writing!! Whether The Rest of Us Just Live Here, or the Chaos Walking trilogy, I just feel so much when I read them. Besides, I could read his books over and over again TvT
What genres do you like? Sci-fi, paranormal, fantasy, some romance, some realistic fiction, uh. Loads.
Fun fact about you: I have a twin, and I work at my local zoo.
Anything else?: Uhm I think not..

@louise. I've read Bone Gap, and I just read I Have Lost My Way yesterday! I loved them both!
Some books I'm reading now/just read are "The Rest Of Us Just Live Here" (Patrick Ness), "Nothing Left To Burn" (Heather Ezell), and "The Ward" (Jordana Frankel). They're all pretty good!!

I haven't yet read Radio Silence, but I'll look for it at my library tomorrow!!