Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. It’s Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you want to join in the challenge, you can find the topics for 2025 here, and if you’d like to read other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can find them here.

Books I Discovered on Social Media

The Song of Achilles: TikTok
This book! Oh, wow. I hate to admit it, but I only read this book due to peer pressure. It was everywhere at one point, and usually, I like to be a bit contrary and subversive and not do the thing everyone else is doing. Often, I will get around to trying whatever it is I’ve been avoiding, after it arrives back in my world naturally. But this seemed to be relentless. It was even mentioned in an episode of “Heartstopper”. So I gave in.

The instant I started reading “The Song of Achilles”, I realised how dumb I was; I was missing out on an incredible story, all because I didn’t like to do ‘the thing’ everyone was doing.

The story involves two princes, Patroclus, who is in exile and Achilles, a demigod, who fall in love despite everything (mainly Achilles’ mother, Thetis) trying to keep them apart.

It’s a sweet historical fantasy that will break your heart. Or at least it did mine. I don’t want to say too much about it because I’ve just reviewed it, and my review will be going live in a few weeks.

The Midnight Library: Twitter (RIP)
When Matt Haig first announced that he had written this book, I knew it was going to be good — it’s Matt Haig! But the concept intrigued me: an afterlife library containing all the lives you could have lived if you had made different choices. It’s a remarkable book with important themes, and the protagonist, Nora, is incredibly relatable and easy to root for.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: TikTok and Instagram
“The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” is another book I usually wouldn’t have read, but everyone seemed to be raving about it at one point. As I’ve already pointed out, I don’t enjoy feeling like a sheep following the herd. But, after reading the first chapter, I was hooked.

It’s a story follows an old Hollywood actress named Evelyn, who falls in love with another woman. The story is about how she attempts to hide it (the title is a bit of a clue), though, when Evelyn thinks she’s nearing the end of her life, she hires a young writer to help her write her autobiography (only to be published after she’s gone), revealing all her secrets. It’s another beautifully written book that I wholeheartedly recommend.

Well, that’s enough outta me for post 16!

As always, thanks for spending your time with me today.

Until next time,

George

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