Her book club is called “Service95”, and the singer will use it each month to highlight a novel, accompanied, when possible, by an interview with the author. The goal is to suggest that we can create and maintain friendships by sharing our readings.
The British Dua Lipa, 27, is on all fronts, she signs the soundtrack of the film Barbie, she has just presented a new Versace collection, she is also preparing her third album. But she is also talking about her because she announces the creation of a book club, a reading club, Service95, to be able to share her favorite novels with her fans, receive their suggestions in return and more generally talk about other emotions than those provided by music.
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“As far back as I can remembershe wrote on Instagram, I always had a book with me wherever I go, reading is one of my biggest inspirations, hence this book club, so we can share our discoveries.” In the photos of her Instagram post, we see her as a little girl, clutching a book, then more recently reading One hundred years of loneliness by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or The Institute by Stephen King.
Dua Lipa reads in her hotel, on a plane, by a creek, a swimming pool, in a field. She reads everywhere, whatever her schedule, and she explains to the Times that what interests him is the construction of bonds of friendship, how one creates with someone else an intellectual, emotional complicity, how one also maintains it. And for her, it’s not just by sending each other likes and “likes”. Clearly, with this initiative, she wants to make her fans want to get off their phones and share emotions in a different way.
Dua Lipa has over 88 million subscribers and messages are already falling on her account to tell her about reading. We ask her what she is reading at the moment, what lately has made her cry, or laugh, or think. And the singer does not want to reduce it to exchanges on Instagram. Last week, she met prisoners, members of the book club of a women’s prison, in Sutton in the suburbs of London, an experience that she intends to repeat, with other groups of readers. The first book she will present will be the Booker Prize, Shuggie Bath by Douglas Stuart.