OCD Community Boost Contest #4: Highlighting Hive Book Club - 3 Interesting Books I Read

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https://hive.blog/hive-174578/@ocd/ocd-community-boost-contest-4-highlighting-hive-book-club

Oh, it's almost time for this contest to end and I am in a hurry to publish this blog!!!!
Thanks once again to @OCD's initiative of highlighting various Hive communities and we have one of the niche communities and loved by many and it's Hive Book Club community and I would like to thank even that community owners for this opportunity to write a blog about the books we read.


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Isn't that above sentence very true?

We keep hearing from our elders and parents and even friends that reading habit is a must for all and reading is a continuous process which shouldn't stop after our studies(school, college or anything) and it shouldn't even stop after reaching the goal(it may be getting a job or competing the degree or whatever other reason) as it's a lifelong opportunity to improve ourselves in whatever way possible by continuing the reading throughout our life.

Reading can be simple news paper reading, or reading one's curriculum or it can be something of our interests like sports articles reading, novel reading about our interests like fiction, sci-fi, mystery, detective, history and so on.
I am someone who is a big fan of mystery and detective novels and most of the books I read are related to that.
I would like to discuss about 3 books I liked most as mentioned below as part of this contest and see how many have a common interest and read books like me :).

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Book 1: The Wedding Day Mystery:


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This book must have been read by all the mystery lovers.
Carolyn Keene is one of the prominent novelists who has mastered writing about mystery and detective novels and out of her 175 volumes, I was fortunate to read some countable mystery novels and The Wedding Day Mystery stands tall among all those.
The story is all about solving the mystery of a ghost in 4 weddings which were planned in Heights House and Nancy Drew the main character was able to solve the mystery and help Bess who was the one organizing those marriages there.
The mystery person in that case was the previous owner of that very house who lost the house due to debts and was planning to regain the house by proving that the house is surrounded by a ghost, so that, no one buys the house.
Carolyn Keene keeps the readers guessing and curious all thru that novel and if you haven't read her mystery novels about Nancy Drew, I would like to invite you to go thru some of those 175+ books.

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2. The Da Vinci Code:


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Dan Brown is another one of those most loved author among the readers of detective/mystery/thriller novels.
The Da Vinci Code is one of the flagship product from Dan Brown who is an author of other thriller novels like Angels & Demons, Origin and The Lost Symbol.
Da Vinci Code thriller revolves around the murder of Jacques Saunière in the mueseum and Robert Langdon, the main character and the mystery solver professor is once again at the service and the story keeps centered around him and how he solves this murder mystery is the main plot in this novel.
Robert Langdon character was also used in Dan Brown's other thriller novels and The Da Vinci Code is another epic thriller and a must read like Nancy Drew series as explained above.
I read somewhere that The Da Vinci Code is among the best sellers in US next only to all time best seller of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by famous author J K Rowling.

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Book 3: The Alchemist:


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Paulo Coelho written The Alchemist is a novel which is mainly on the journey of a boy who was a shepherd and traveling to the Land of Pyramids i.e. Egypt in search of treasure which he understood thru his dream.
The series of people the boy meets and the activities he goes thru including being robbed 2 times during his journey is what it all in the novel and beautifully penned by Dan Brown.
The boy has to sell his sheep as told by a King just before he plans to start his journey towards Egypt and goes thru South Africa where he was robbed off his money and still he keeps faith in moving to Egypt somehow and keeps moving and finally he reaches the destination after intriguing journey is what this novel is all about.
Although the other novels by Paulo Coelho weren't as famous as The Alchemist, but, that one book has made him more popular and it's one of the International bestsellers and has been published and translated into more than 170 countries and that makes him the more famous than his lucrative job of songwriter and lyricist which he was before he started being a full time writer.
Oh, that's an inspiring story isn't it?

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Now about the 3 questions asked by the Hive Book Club community with my answers as below:

1. If you were making a movie based on a book, what book would you choose and why?

My Answer:
As the The Da Vinci Code and The Alchemist have already been made as movies, I would say The Wedding Day Mystery would be a nice movie with all those mysteries captured and keeps us awaiting the next move and hopefully that novel hasn't been used to make a movie :)

2. Has a book ever transformed yourself and your life?

My Answer:
I would say yes, I have been influenced by a book about the great saint from India, Swami Vivekananda and is influenced by his ideologies and speeches. The book is named as Vivekananda, A Biography authored by Swami Nikhilananda.

3. What is your most favorite book and why?

My Answer:
There is a Kannada Language novel by name Rudra Nethra authored by famous Indian detective/mystery/thriller author by name Yandamury Veerendranath and being one of those books I ready during my early adult age, it influenced me I was fascinated in my early age to be a detective and mystery solver and this character of Nethra as a mystery solver working for a detective agency and works on a underworld drug mafia gang and hunt them down and that was the one which influenced me most.

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Thanks for reading thru this and I hope you might have read One or more of these as these are among the most sold books and keeps us curious throughout these books.
Once again, I would like to appreciate the amount of work being done by team of @OCD in bringing out these weekly contests and also the amount of effort spent to evaluate each of the blogs for curation and I take this opportunity to even greet and thank the Hive Book Club community for this opportunity to write a blog in their community and also being evaluated by them for this contest.
P.S: Unless mentioned explicitly, all the images are taken from the @OCD's original blog related to this contest as in the First link I shared above.

References:

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_Day_Mystery
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(novel)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code
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