#july 2024 english bookclub

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Seitokai July 2024 English Bookclub

This month's bookclub pick is Idol, Burning by Rin Usami!

Akari is a high school junior obsessed with "oshi" Masaki Ueno, a member of the popular J-Pop group Maza Maza. She writes a blog devoted to him, and spends hours addictively scrolling for information about him and his life. Desperate to analyze and understand him, Akari hopes to eventually see the world through his eyes. It is a devotion that borders on the religious: Masaki is her savior, her backbone, someone she believes she cannot survive without--even though she's never actually met him. When rumors surface that her idol assaulted a female fan, social media explodes. Akari immediately begins sifting through everything she can find about the scandal, and shares every detail to her blog--including Masaki's denials and pleas to his fans--drawing numerous readers eager for her updates. But the organized, knowledgeable persona Akari presents online is totally different from the socially awkward, unfocused teenager she is in real life. As Masaki's situation spirals, his troubles threaten to tear apart her life too. Instead of finding a way to break free to save herself, Akari becomes even more fanatical about Masaki, still believing her idol is the only person who understands her. A blistering novel of fame, disconnection, obsession, and disillusion by a young writer not much older than the novel's heroine, Idol, Burning shines a white-hot spotlight on fandom and "stan" culture, the money-making schemes of the pop idol industry, the seductive power of social media, and the powerful emotional void that opens when an idol falls from grace, only to become a real--and very flawed--person.

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Seargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Book Club

Seargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts’ Book Club https://ift.tt/i5f1umD by VikingWearingHeels Hermione is in the first week of her new life as a single woman. With teenage kids and her whirl-wind romance with Ron officially over, she moves to a tiny impossible-to-pronounce village in Wales to be closer to her work at the only Co-Operative Wizarding & Technology University in the world. Who should she encounter in this new chapter of her life but her old friend, Draco Malfoy! Well he did promise to run a book club with her all those years ago... if not now, when? TLDR: Hermione & Draco reconnect over their shared love of books and food and magic and dancing, and start something new and exciting, now that life is ready for new beginnings. Words: 43587, Chapters: 6/8, Language: English Series: Part 1 of The HP Friends in Adulthood Series Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, M/M Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Fred Weasley, Ron Weasley, Harry Potter, Pansy Parkinson, Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Marcus Flint/Ron Weasley, Ginny Weasley/Blaise Zabini, George Weasley/Oliver Wood, Luna Lovegood/Fred Weasley, Pansy Parkinson/Harry Potter, Daphne Greengrass/Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy Additional Tags: No Ron Weasley Bashing, BAMF Hermione Granger, Sweet Draco Malfoy, Past Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy, Astoria Greengrass Dies, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Original Character(s), Divorced Hermione Granger & Ron Weasley, Molly Weasley Bashing, Good Draco Malfoy, Adult Hermione Granger, Hermione Granger & Harry Potter Friendship, Everyone Is Gay, Except Harry, Fluff, Smut, Light Angst, magical university, Professor Hermione Granger, Post-Canon, Potions Master Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley is a Little Shit, Harry is a Little Shit, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Pregnant Pansy Parkinson, Sex Toys, Draco Malfoy is So Whipped, I mean aren't we all?, Harry Potter Characters in their 30s, Hermione Granger & Draco Malfoy Friendship, Hermione Granger & Draco Malfoy do a Bookclub via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/bFro0Hh July 10, 2024 at 04:53AM