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@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 1:21

Bookish confessions!

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A fair warning to fellow readers. This is as well for the bravest of us, for I challenge you all to go ahead and share some of your most shameful bookish Confessions in here. So I'll start off with one of mine. I have once been an active participant in an online book club discussion on James Joyce's Ulysses without actually having read the book. I was supposed to have finished the book in time for the discussion

Confessions of a common reader.

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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:54

Oops! Outed in class for watching not reading ...

But to this day, I think about that as like it stopped there. It ended there. It's like if I can't finish a book, it's like I can't finish the book. I want to put books down frequently if I don't like them, and I pick up and keep the ones that I do like. But that experience was so it stayed with me forever. I mean, look, it's like 30 years later, and I'm still talking about it
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 3:22

@NamelessJournal hilarious!!! 😂

And the other person who's running the book clubs also was like, okay, tell me more. Well, what about this? What about this? And finally she says, you haven't read the book, have you? You just haven't read the book. And it's hilarious, because then she calls the next woman, and she says, Fine, you're not leading the book club here. You take over
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@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 0:45

@DBPardes

Hey, Deb, thanks for that confession. Although if I might add, I might have fallen back on a study guide or spark notes rather than the movie, because more often than not, the movies are so unlike the book that they are adapted from. But I can totally imagine what you might have felt because like I said, I've gone through a similar experience, although I wasn't really out there, but I did feel bad all the same
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@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 0:36

@bookishpodcast

Hey Shahnaz, that was hilarious. I'm going to go look up that book for sure, but I did want to ask you if you have had any such hilarious or embarrassed saying episodes and any of your book club discussions or other book clubs that you've been a part of. If you do have any such weird or hilarious anecdotes, please share them here. I'm sure we love listening to them. Bye
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 1:40

Buying books without any intention of reading them🤫 @bookishpodcast

And despite knowing this, I kind of went Ahmed and got the book just because it had a cult classic kind of status. And most of my reader friends were raving about the book, but I have no intentions ever of reading this book. Maybe after a decade or so, when I have a lot of time to kill, I just might pick this out from its place in my bookshelves. So yeah, that's another confession of mine
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 1:33

@NamelessJournal buying books because they look good

Okay. Bookish Confessions. I buy books because it looks so pretty. I mean, they just look so good, and I just buy them and I put them on my shelf and they just look good. And they're just really decoration. Shelf decoration. Horrible. But I do. Recently I bought this supposedly collector's edition. They only print 10,000 of it. And then my niece is like, But Auntie 10,000 is a lot. Okay, fine
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@bowie
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:02

Book guilt 😳

And I told myself, okay, I wasn't able to read it while in the class. I'm going to read it someday. I really want to and I still haven't. I think because of this guilt, I feel because I loved and respected this teacher so much. And I guess that just goes to show you that I am a huge nerd. And also I was raised Catholic and the Catholic guilt thing. It's for real, even when it comes to books
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