2025 Reading Challenge discussion

This thread is to discuss Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.

Pages: 390 pages

Length: 1 month (September)

Participants: Amitha, Patricia, LinaVer

Everyone reads at their own pace during a Buddy Read. Because participants can be at different parts of the book at different times, it is extremely important to mark spoilers so that the book is not ruined for someone who is not as far along as others!!!

Mark spoilers by placing {spoiler} before the text and {/spoiler} after the text but use the < and > instead of the { and }.

Here are some questions to help get the conversation started! Feel free to look up discussion questions specific to this book or come up with your own. Just make sure any questions that contain spoilers are under spoiler tags.
Discussion questions are not required but may be a fun way to talk about the book and get to know each other!

Prior to starting:
What prompted you to join this buddy read?
Have you read this author before? What do you think of their other books?

Mid-read:
What character or ideas do you relate to the most and why?
Do you have any favorite quotes or scenes?

After reading:
What was enjoyable or not-so-enjoyable about this book?
Did this book change your perception about anything, either within the book (character development) or in real life?

You'll definitely enjoy this. I loved it!

If I may, I would like to join this buddy read.

Hey everyone, just checking in to say I will start this one probably later in the month, as I have other books I have to finish first.
Happy to see there's more people joining. :)
I've seen the screen adaptation, so I'm quite excited to be reading this.

Hi, Everyone! I'll start reading this book soon:)

Hi All! I will start reading this book from next week.

Hello everyone! I'd like to join this busy read. I'll be able to start by the end of the week.

I need to find my book before I can start reading! LOL! I know it's in my house...somewhere!

Hi y´all!
I won´t be reading this book this month but I only finished it a few weeks ago so I might have a look at what you guys will have to say about it!

I really enjoyed this! I didn´t really made my research what this book was about when I started it and I was positively surprised.
According to my ratings it was my top read of 2025 so far!

Just finished the book and loved it !

Hi, it took me longer to get it from the library, so I didn’t get to it this month, really sorry!