Reading Envy Readers discussion

I'm wondering if this will happen to anyone else. I'm used to these kinds of psychic phenomenons, but even so, had to laugh at this. (You can call them coincidences, that's okay too.)

Today I was thumbing through my signed copy of The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson, to find the passages about the veil that I remembered reading, to send to the professor I'm working with who is teaching a first year writing seminar called "Veils and Turbans."

Then I happened across this!

"...'The panic attack stayed for months and months,' said Laila. 'It didn't go away until I converted.'
'Wow.'
'Yes. And then the panic attack went away, but I was a mess - you know how it is, at first after you convert you cry every five minutes.'
I laughed. 'It's so true! You get so sensitive--'
'See something sad, cry. See something happy, cry.'
'There's this Donna Tartt novel,' I said, referring to The Secret History, 'that calls becoming religious 'turning up the volume of the inner monologue.' She's talking about the Greeks, but the principle is the same.'
'Turning up the volume... yes, that's what it was like. A very strange experience.'...."
(from the chapter called "The Sheikha," pg. 265 in my edition)

Wow! A reference to The Secret History in a religious journey memoir. This might be an interesting readalong indeed.

Free free to post about any happystances you encounter!

Love when this happens! I call it Book Serendipity.

How cool! What's really great is that you are tuned in enough to pick up on these things when they happen. So powerful!

And how about an article from YESTERDAY about how this person still recommends The Secret History to everyone.
https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/why-i-...

I came across this because one of my librarian friends posted it to Facebook with the comment that she kind of hates herself after reading the article, but that it is still accurate.

I'm excited to read this "thinking person's thriller."

LitHub posted a list of fiction and non-fiction from every state, and guess which book popped up again? They list The Secret History for Vermont.

I was catching up on some of the BookTubers I subscribe to and here's another person who randomly read The Secret History.

I didn't know which discussion to share this, but I had to because it's fairly amusing. I know it's silly and geeky of me- but I play Sims 4 and one boring Sunday morning I made the main characters from The Secret History and moved them into my neighborhood. I had a blast making them look how I imagined and giving them the proper traits to see if they behave accordingly. I even made Julian and had him live in some fancy house on the other side of town.

Elizabeth wrote: "I didn't know which discussion to share this, but I had to because it's fairly amusing. I know it's silly and geeky of me- but I play Sims 4 and one boring Sunday morning I made the main characters..."
Do they go through periods of ritual madness followed by ennui?

No. But they spend a silly amount of time reading, which I guess is fairly accurate.