HC Helsinki Book Club discussion

This is Lyra, editor-in-chief of Her Campus Helsinki. I feel a little embarrassed to admit that I didn't pick up many books last year, but I'm hoping to change that this year by e.g. reading before bed rather than scroll through my instagram feed.

I'm quite new to goodreads, though I've known about this site for ages and I thought this would be a good way for me to start afresh and keep track of my reading. My initial plan was to do as much of popsugar's reading challenge (http://www.popsugar.com/love/Reading-...) as possible, but then I got really excited about the #BustleReads list (http://www.bustle.com/articles/130754...), so I might try to combine the 2 somehow.

I haven't done a lot of research on what I'd like to read yet, so any recommendations would be much appreciated!

- A book about a culture you're unfamiliar with: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - The Thing Around Your Neck
- A Book Written by a Woman under 25: Zadie Smith - White Teeth

I started reading 'White Teeth' in Finnish and while I devoured the first few chapters, I can't bring myself to start the next one that's apparently going to be all about the characters' experiences in WWII... :(

Hello, I'm Laura (the former Editor-in-Chief, current social media person and writer for HC Helsinki) and I haven't yet decided on any particular book challenge... However, I am in the "Our Shared Shelf" group (Emma Watson's feminist book club) and, though I won't have too much time right now to read anything other than my MA research books, I'd like to read the books from that group at some point during the year. It would've been lovely to join the discussions on those books in that group but I figured that it'll just have to be my personal goal to read them on my own schedule. So, right now that would be Gloria Steinem's My Life on the Road, which was the January book.
Plus, if anyone has any great fantasy/YA recommendations, I'd love to hear them because those are pretty much my favorites to just devour in the evenings and mornings (when I'm not working on school stuff).

Hi, I'm Pinja and I'm also an editor-in-chief of HC Helsinki. I have always loved reading and was horrified to notice that I managed to finish only 3 (!!) books last year, so this group came at a perfect time for me.

This year, I aim to read 30 books from my own shelf. I have lots of books that I've bought when I was a teenager (a while ago...) but still haven't read, so I figured that now's the perfect time to do that. In addition to those, I'll probably be reading all kinds of books from detective stories (my new favorites) and chick lits to biographies and graphic novels (that my boyfriend is trying to introduce me to).

I just finished Bea Uusma's "Naparetki. Minun rakkaustarinani" that I got as a Christmas gift and it was awesome. Who knew that polar expeditions could be so fascinating? At the moment I'm reading "Silkworm" by Robert Galbraith. I loved "The Cuckoo's Calling" so I'm definitely expecting a lot from this one.