Bibliolyra
Mum of 1, married, elder millennial 📚🇬🇧🇩🇪 Chronological reading project -> shelves "project 1800-1899" & "project 1900-1999" Social: Monnett -> bibliolyra (pics of my books + chronol.project)
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October 2026
3.99 average · 293 reviews
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This is one of those books that will leave a deep impression on you, whether you like it or not.
A sci-fi story told through the diary of mentally disabled Charlie, who is the first human who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence. At the beginning of the experiment Charlie's diary entries show writing skills which reflect his low IQ as a mentally disabled man. Throughout the book his writing style and grammar change and improve with his growing intelligence.
It's not a light read, as it deals with heavy ethical and moral themes. But it's an important and thought-provoking book, which I frequently recommend. .
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
Edit after my reread (May 2026):
This was a reread for me and it's one of my favourite books that I love to recommend to anyone regardless of their reading preferences. Knowing how I felt when I read it for the first time, I expected it to make me sad and affect me emotionally. But it had been a long time since I first read it, and while it made me tear up throughout the story on this reread, I was still caught off guard by how hard some sections of the last few diary entries broke me and made me start sobbing uncontrollably.
After having in general experienced more over the past 20 years or so (that's how long ago my first read of this book was) and also having lived and experienced life as a mother for the past (almost) six years, this story hit me much harder than before. Life and being a mum has changed me and made me more perceptive and sensitive regarding certain topics. Because of that the themes and the plot in Flowers for Algernon affected me more deeply this time round. Parts of it were actually quite challenging for me to read, in particular the flashbacks of his childhood which Charlie experienced after the operation. But also the way he was treated before the operation and his realisation afterwards when he starts seeing things as they are and how he has been made fun of by people who he thought were his friends and cared for him. And also the psychological problems he's confronted with after gaining more intelligence. It was tough to read how difficult it was for him to struggle with his identity.
I have a feeling that this won't be my last reread. And I can't help but keep recommending it to everyone I know who's into reading. .
P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.
Hey everyone! So, I wasn't so sure if I could post sth like this here (if it's against the rules, please let me know), but since I've seen a couple of Club Posts, old and new, with people mentioning other social media communities like Bookstagram, I thought "just do it"...
I have a bookish account on the social media platform "Monnett" where I share photos of my chronological reading project, but also things like tbr stacks, my favourite reads, books that made a deep impression on me, or just editions that I find beautiful 😅 stuff like that...but I also use it kind of like a reading diary for my chronological reading project.
For each year of the 19th and 20th century I share one publication with a photo (or several) and a review on my account. I also add things that I found interesting while reading up on each year, other books that were published, literary people who were born or died, and also art, music and films that came out in the respective year. I also share all of this in my reviews here on Pagebound (I have shelves for this project), of course, but I use my Monnett account for additional visual presentation and tracking. 🤓
Btw, I also like to read sci-fi and fantasy, children's literature and newer stuff, so it's not all older literature that I'm sharing there...
Anyways, I thought I'd share it here in case there are people here who might be interested in joining me on Monnett, follow my journey through the 19th and 20th century or just take part in building a bookish community there. I'd love to follow and interact with more bookish accounts on Monnett, but the platform still needs to grow. So, if you're on Monnett or looking for a place to share photos/videos of your books, let me know or find me under my user name "bibliolyra" 😊
Until February 2026 I used to be quite active on Bookstagram, for about 4 years, but I then decided to quit because of Meta and ethical reasons I have against their practises, the algorithm, adverts and also the growing AI content on its platform. All of which are thankfully not an issue on Monnett, who refrains from using these things.
For those of you who have never heard of Monnett: It's a European based social media platform that was created in October 2025 in Luxembourg. I joined at the end of the alpha stage of the development, but the beta update will come on April 7th, and the final release will be in a couple months. I joined only a few weeks ago, but so far I really like it and I'm going to stay and support its mission for European digital sovereignty against the big tech guys.
Bibliolyra commented...
I just chose the user name that I used for my Bookstagram for years, before I left Instagram at the beginning of this year. Back then I created it because I'm a bibliophile (biblio-), and because I always liked the name Lyra, ever since I read His Dark Materials, and coincidentally I love lyricism both in writing and music (there's also an instrument called Lyra, which I like) 😁 I haven't thought about changing my name. I use it for my bookish profile on Monnett as well. So I'm keeping it 😊
I'm thinking of changing my username to include one nickname but if I translate it to English is weird. The nickname is in Portuguese, Pintainho, but translated literally means Chick, an animal I know, but the story behind is funny and I find it cute. Also thinking about using my real name. It's not I don't like it, I just normally prefer using Minnie. Anyway, I wanted to ask what's the meaning behind your username? And if you had to change it to something different but also meaningful what would it be? Edit: Changed from mimilovesreading to pintainho.reads 😌
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