Lead book clubs is in fashion among Famous. They are or have been well known those created separately by the actresses Dakota Johnson, Emma Watson or Emma Roberts, along with their friend the editor Karah Preiss. One of the pioneers was the presenter and businesswoman Oprah Winfrey, that marked a path that many other celebrities would later follow. This trend is also part of Dua Lipa.
Their book club and publishing platform is called Service95 and was created in 2022. “Since I can remember, wherever I go I carry a book with me. Reading is an incredibly important part of my life and one of my greatest joys,” the British-Albanian artist explained on the page at that time when launching it. But it is not only that, since It has ended up becoming a true means of communication about lifestyle, culture, activism and, above all, literature.
The book of the month
Every month, the popular singer attaches a new recommendation. The election for this month of June is say nothingby Patrick Radden Keefe. This book is a non-fiction story set in the Northern Irish conflict of the second half of the 20th century. Based on real events, the author tells of the kidnapping of a woman within the framework of the tension processes over the independence of northern ireland among other crossed stories.
Other works that Dua Lipa has chosen for her reading club have been Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Half yellow sun of Chimamanda Ngozi, we were children by Patti Smith or One hundred years of loneliness of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The multiple contents of Service95
One of the advantages of this reading club is that those readers who subscribe have access to a section to ask the author of the book whatever you want chosen for that month. They are also published discussion guides which include questions to motivate readers to reflect. In addition, lists of literary recommendations prepared by those same writers are included on the page.
But in addition to all this, Service95 also publishes interviews with writersmany of them, made by Dua Lipa herself, as well as reviews and letters from readers and content related to the works of the month. For example, there are podcasts, trend articles, literature, activism and social justice, travel, wellness and cosmeticgastronomy, contemporary philosophy or any other information of interest on very varied topics in an offer well worked on by the platform’s entire team of editors.
