The book club has already startet. You can find the discussion here. Application deadline: Tuesday, 07/05/23 Duration: 3 weeks: 14/05-05/06/24 Win 1 of 20 reading copies ✨ In dieser Leserunde wird der Roman in der Originalsprache Englisch gelesen und die Diskussionsrunde im Book Circle findet in englischer Sprache statt. The book you need to read this spring: It’s a shimmering and joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Stranded in Waning Bay, Michigan, Daphne ends up rooming with Miles, the ex-boyfriend of Petra, who is now dating Daphnes’ ex-boyfriend. Despite their differences, they form an unlikely friendship and concoct a plan involving misleading photos of their adventures. For this book club we’re giving away 20 free reading copies of the novel, in cooperation with Penguin Random House. As a special, we are giving away “Funny Story” branded merchandise: 10 tote bags and 10 t-shirts among all participants! How to participate 🌠 You’d like to read along and discuss the novel with other readers? Fill in this form and enter your postal address to apply for the book club to win one of the 20 free copies. By confirming the completed form you’re automatically in the run for a space in the book club. How the book club works 📖 The number of participants is limited to 20 people. Participants will be selected at random. After the application deadline, the winners will be announced in a comment in this thread and will receive an email with further information. All confirmed participants will receive a free copy of Funny Story. We’ll read and discuss the novel together. The exchange will take place in writing, in this forum discussion thread. After completing the book, all participants will write their personal review of the book here in the community. Conditions of participation ✏ Residence and valid postal address in Switzerland. Time to read the book during the specified period and to actively participate in the discussion, in English. Writing a personal review of the book at the end of the reading group on bookcircle.ch. Agreement that the feedback from readers and the reading group will be shared with the publisher and may be used by the publisher for advertising purposes. More about the book 📖 Read more about the content: Funny Story 400 pages Published 23 April 2024 About the author Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Happy Place , Book Lovers and Beach Read . She lives and writes in the American Midwest.

CommunityAdmin to read in english helps me exercise the language

CommunityAdmin Wooow! 😊 This book has been on my wish list for a long time. That’s why I’m going to try my luck. Lets hope the best 😊🍀

roura You are absolutely right…The more you read books in English, the better you master the language. 😀

Oh I would love to participate! I haven``` t read a book by Emily Henri yet and it would be great to do so with other people. 🙂 I will be trying my luck! 🌠

CommunityAdmin Sounds like a “funny story”😁. Would love to be part of it!

That sounds interesting. Since English reading rounds are rarely available, I am always happy when another book in English is suggested. I’ll try my luck and would be delighted to receive a copy. 🍀🐞

I’d love the chance to participate in an english reading round, and this book sounds interesting.

CommunityAdmin This book sounds very interesting and well, - funny!📚😘I would love to participate in this reading round!☺️

CommunityAdmin how cool, already saw some recommendationts for this book on instagram, so I’m up for it 😛

CommunityAdmin So nice that you also do English book clubs! I love reading books in the original language and it would be fun to participate 🥰

Englischer Austausch: «Funny Story» by Emily Henry

WIZ

Hi everybody

Many thanks for the book and the tote bag. I love reading books about relationships. What is love? What’s real, what’s fake? This seems to be the main question at the beginning of Emily Henry’s Funny Story. A romance, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. It is a page-turner! Funny, as well as thought-provoking. What happens if you mean one thing and say another ? I can’t wait to find out the consequences in the story.

On Thursday I am flying to London for a week but I’ll be with you as soon as I am back.

Enjoy reading the book. ☺

Saerely

ZooeyZueri

I’ve just read Book Lovers as well and I really liked it too. Then I found out that I have read another book of Emily Henry “Happy Place”, which I didn’t like at all. It wasn’t that bad but I couldn’t connect with the characters, so now I’m very excited to see if Funny Story is more like Book Lovers (which I hope, because it was so good) or more like Happy Place.

ZooeyZueri

Saerely

That’s funny because I just realized that I ’ve read another book by Emily Henry as well. It was Beach Read and I liked it. Not as much as Book Lovers but enough to make me even more looking forward to reading Funny Story. I wish you a lot of fun with the book, Saerely🙂

FlakiM

The book arrived this week and I couldn’t wait any longer and started right away!! Excited to see what Emily Henry has in store for us! 😃

Belana_st

Hello everyone

I am very excited to start our discussion for the first part of the book. But first I want to check in with some of you:

@Ania @Cesare @Crisxx99 @jessielena @mivi @Saerely @susikw @SwissHelena @Tammz @ZooeyZueri
Did you receive a copy of the book?

What is your first impression of the story? Is it what you’ve expected after reading the blurb?
Do you sympathize with Daphne?
How do you view the dynamics between Daphne and Miles?

I am very curious to hear your thoughts on the first third of this lovely book.

Best wishes,

Belana

SwissHelena

Belana_st Dear All

My first impression was a groan - trying too hard. However, now the prose is flowing in a less self-conscious manner and so I am getting into it. Interesting that Daphne’s first reactions are not anger and desire for revenge. Of course I sympathise with Daphne as she has just been jilted.

jessielena

Belana_st Hello Everyone

Yes, I received a lovely copy of the book. Thank you very much. 😍 I’m so happy to finally be a part of one of the group readings. I just ended a book I was reading and now I can start with the first third of this one. I can’t wait to read it and discuss it with all of you. 🤭

Tammz

Belana_st Yes, sorry for the delay, i received my book and a shirt. Thank you very much. Need to start reading as soon as possible, unfortunately at the moment i’m sick..

Saerely

Belana_st

Hi, yes I’ve got the book. Thank you very much for the Shirt as well, that was a big sunrise.

I’ve started reading but I haven’t finished the first part yet, but I like what I’ve read so far, especially the beginning. I love the way she started telling the story.

FlakiM

SwissHelena

Great point to be honest! I was also surprised how well Daphne took the news and how she decided to move forward. It’s a very realistic approach to be honest which is very refreshing for a romance novel!

LisaIsa

Miles definitely has that golden-retriever vibe on him!! I even imagine him blonde because of his personality hahaha!

Nian

A M A Z I N G ! You finished already! I remember last year it happened to me too with “Happy Place” - I simply couldn’t put it down! Emily Henry hits the spot with the romance novels imo. I really hope you still stay and chat along as we progress further with the book - it would be interesting for you to see how all our opinions form over time 🙂

LisaIsa

So I finished the first part a few days ago. I enjoyed reading the book, but I found it quite predictable. A solid romance novel, but not much more. Now I’m also reading another book and I don’t want to finish the second part too soon, so I took a break. I often find myself thinking about the book, which I don’t usually do with romance novels. So maybe there’s more to it. I really like Miles so far. He has that charming golden retriever energy. I also like Daphne and sympathize with her, but sometimes I can’t really follow her thought processes. Anyway, I’m really excited to read on!

Nian

Belana_st Hello everyone

Yesterday evening I started reading and this morning I thought I would read to page 128 and post my comment here. But well… I spent most of my day reading on and - whoops - I just finished the whole book. Needless to say, I really liked the story, there were even a few times when I chuckled out loud. 😉

To answer your questions, Belana, I think the story really delivers on what the blurb promises, and my first impression was that this would be a solid romance book. But I think it was more than that. I really liked that the author shows her love for books through Daphne being a librarian and I was taken back to my own childhood and how I got into reading (and actually, as a little side note, my very first job was in the library where I reshelved books). Also, it’s not just a love story, it’s a story about the importance of friendship. I really enjoyed that aspect as well. The dynamic between Daphne and Miles is exciting, and I really liked seeing how it all played out.

Nian

FlakiM Of course I will stay. I hope we’ll have some interesting discussions - I just didn’t want to give any details yet so as not to reveal any spoilers…

If that was the case with you, I’ll probably have to read “Happy Place” too. 😊

susikw

I have never read a book by Emily Henry before, and to be honest, it is not a book I would have bought for myself—not my genre… Also the blurb really did not draw me to the book.

However, I must say it is a really good and easy read, in the best sense. I finished the first part in 2 days and really enjoyed it. I empathise with both characters and I find myself smiling while I read. All in all, I totally look forward to reading the next part.

Rosali

I love this genre of disastrous but funny love stories. But to be honest, it took me a while to warm up to this one. @SwissHelena for me the beginning was also trying too hard. Slowly but steadily I got sucked into to book and now I can’t wait reading what’s happening next.

Because of the description of his messy beard, I don’t picture Miles as beeing blonde, so he must be a brown labrador (BTW if you want to limit your screen time, don’t google brown labrador puppies 😍). While Peter seems to be a “Ken” nice but stiff as a poker. We haven’t really read too much about Petra yet, so I can’t really imagine what she’s like. So far of course our sympathies are with Daphne and Miles.

Shower_cosmos

Rosali Peter is definitely Ken! I imagine him that way too, but it does not really correspond with his nice family ? 🤷
As for Miles, we are also on the same side. Brown Labrador for me! 🐕 Maybe he could be the older brother of Davide Vavala, about ten years older and a bit more ingrown. 😁 Definitely super cool and chill, when he is not having his heart broken. @FlakiM Do you have anyone in particular in mind as “Blonde Miles”? 😉

Cesare

Belana_st I didn’t finish reading the blurb… somehow found it too exhausting and only read it after the 128 pages…

Somehow I really had to bite my way through at the beginning to continue reading, I was rather bored. I also wondered whether I should finish the book at all…but in the last 20 pages of the first third I found it more and more enjoyable. I hope it continues like this…

Ania

Hi everyone, I’ve finished the first part of the reading 🙂 I have to agree with you guys it took me a little to get into it and I also felt at some points they were trying a little too hard 🙂 But after getting into the story I feel like I will like this book more than “happy place” and I’m looking forward to getting further into the story this week 🙂

Shower_cosmos

@"SwissHelena @Rosali Oh. I was really surprised that you thought the beginning of the book was trying too hard. I actually really like the beginning and think the “some people are natural storytellers” is a great opening. It was just realistic and got me in the mood.

On the other hand, I was just wondering. Emily Henry has written another book 📕 on the subject of books 📚. I know we are all here for books 📘 and love 💞, but hey, girl, it is starting to get a little weird and boring.

Belana_st

First impressions:
📗 heey, books again?!?!
📙 golden retriever boyfriend-to-be x asshole ex - classic!!
📖 I was afraid it was going to be really slow, but she managed to juggle more tropes in the first part of the book than I expected.

Poor Daphne. I always thought this kind of story was just the author’s imagination, but since a friend of mine has a really wild “I’m going to marry someone else”, I just enjoy the flow. Although I think she should be a bit more freaked out! 🤪

I liked the domestic scenes between Miles and Daphne. 💝

shannon_moana

It’s exciting that many of you found the start hard, I found my way into the story very quickly. Funnily enough, I realised yesterday that I already own a book by Emily Henry called “People we meet on vacation”, but I never looked at it again after a few pages. Perhaps I should give it another chance.

So far the book reminds me a lot of Colleen Hoover’s romances. Easy and fun to read. I laughed out loud a couple of times in the first 128 pages. I like the “teasing humour” that exists between Damphne and Miles. The image of Miles as a brown Labrador fits really well, only the fact that he smokes weed doesn’t quite fit in with this Labrador image for me. But perhaps that’s a play with their opposites on the fact that Peter has his green wheatgrass smoothies and Miles has his “grass”.

Do you think the relationship between Miles and his family will deepen in the book? I felt like he was hiding something.

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