I'd like to thank everyone who has been with me growing the community from the ground up since February 2020 to now February 2025 from 0 subscriber to over 4600 subscribers from all over the world.

Hive book club was a space that I built because my love to literature and actually mirrors the physical location that my family built, a small library in the village of Central Java that attempts to increase literacy among its residents.

At the time, I was also working in similar projects increasing literacy in rural areas and helped established some local libraries. The thing is, I was that 23 years old ambitious kid who thought this place could be something in the future.

Long story short, here we are reaching the 4th year of this community existence and I've been seeing a glimpse of hope. Reading gets its revival and the future isn't so bleak.

That is to say, I've been pretty much inspired lately as I also just go out of a very dark place.

As much as this place had its potential, at one point, it wasn't something that I saw so I was just letting it out run itself and continuing to provide a space for book lovers to share their insights, reviews and recommendation.

This space has its ups and downs too. There were moments when my personal life gets the best of me and this place gets pretty much abandoned. I am sure some of you who are here long enough remembered the days when I pretty much gave away subscription to grammarly or scribd.

If I can boast a little, Hive book club regularly host giveaway, contest that its prize aren't small and even these days we randomly tip our contributors weekly.

I do have some future ideas in mind so that this space finally gets its own actual home, an interface that we all can use and I've been waiting for the day to come. So, now that I am getting out of the hole I dug for myself, that is something that can be worked on.

To celebrate our 4th anniversary, I'd like to organize a small contest. It's 30 Hive giveaway for 2 winners with this simple prompt :

✅ Share your feedback about HIVE book club in this comment section

✅ Subscribe if you haven't (to be legible for the prize draw)

✅Tag 3 friends

The winners will be announced 13 February with one winner gets 20 hive for the most thoughtful feedback and reviews for us and 10 hive for the prize drawn randomly.

Good luck & I am looking forward to hear your constructive feedback to make this space better.