Book Guild – April 2025 Challenge
April, the crazy weather month. Well, thanks to global warming, we now have those almost every month, but let’s celebrate for what April was known for the last years…:
April, the crazy weather month. Well, thanks to global warming, we now have those almost every month, but let’s celebrate for what April was known for the last years…:
“People are places, and you are a sacred place.”
A letter to those who are fighting depression and need some hope in their life.
Doesn’t feel that brand new, possibly has lots of similarities to other works (someone on another platform mentioned Harry Potter, can’t confirm though), but it was a fun ride. (And I’m way older than the target group!) Diverse, adventurous, creative, and focused on friendship, which always is a plus. – Story: Quite fast-paced, there’s always…
That was so… heartwarming. Soft and tender, sweet and magical. I was moved to tears here and there, though mostly smiled through it, and deeply felt with all of the characters. It has stirred me so profoundly, especially the ending left me with an unexplainable longing, that I’m a bit too awestruck to form any…
Plot After a young girl, Anna, gets bitten by her cat, bad things start to happen to her parents, who are constantly fighting and blaming her or the cat for everything that went down in their lives. When Anna tries to get rid of the cat, she discovers there might be a greater terror behind…
It had a rough start, but a great middle part, and then, unfortunately, a rough ending. Plot After seeing her best friend, Yuzu, being confessed to by another classmate, Minami realizes she wouldn’t be quite okay with Yuzu dating someone else, even though she wants her to be happy. As Minami hopes to go from…
On the 8th March, it’s women’s day, so …: Theme: women being appreciated Read and review anything that’s a book – novels, comics, mangas, graphic novels, poem collections, scripts, short stories, zines, et cetera. (Audiobooks count too, of course!). How to take part *Woman = anyone identifying as a woman. Cis, trans, etc. She/They can…
Plot: Snakeman saves sparrowman from boars, but sparrowman calls snakeman evil and they part ways. Upon meeting again, they accidentally lose their clothes, sparrowman sees snakeman’s genitalia and is so mesmerized by it that he cannot help himself but grope him. Snakeman has never been touched in that way, but it felt kinda good, so…
Quite the basic animation movie for kids, I’d say. But this one had a modern, in a good way, aspect. Feminist and inclusive.
February, the month of love! There’s Valentine’s day in the west, Dragobete (mix of Valentine’s day and spring festival) in Romania, chocolate exchange in Japan, mass weddings in Philippines, friendship day in Estland & Finland & Mexico, anonymous gift giving between friends in Colombia & Guatemala, card exchange between friends and lovers in Denmark &…