PopJustice Book Club

[Celestial Mosaic]

Just finished this:

The third in the series and I loved the prior too, this was good too, but maybe the actual motives and crimes were a bit too dark for something classed as a cosy crime? I mean the basic setting is a retired cop living on a narrowboat and solving crimes helped by a cat who can talk to her. Still, it was engaging and the characters are nicely fleshed out.

 

[bakerboy92]

Just finished this:

The third in the series and I loved the prior too, this was good too, but maybe the actual motives and crimes were a bit too dark for something classed as a cosy crime? I mean the basic setting is a retired cop living on a narrowboat and solving crimes helped by a cat who can talk to her. Still, it was engaging and the characters are nicely fleshed out.

Loving that this is a genre.

 

[Celestial Mosaic]

Loving that this is a genre.

I feel like its an unofficial one dd. I tend to prefer crime novels that are lighter in tone.

 

[cosmicfox]

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/203024.Books_Adapted_Into_Films_Starring_Anne_Hathaway making my way through this list, also reread The Witches for it.

 

[Raichu]

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is pretty addictive for a book of its time. The prose is sumptuous and the conflict is so subtly executed. Plus, all the descriptions of flowers and clothing are lovely.

 

[Raichu]

I just ordered a book called The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez because one of my colleagues told me it's a YA fantasy with an autistic protagonist. Which is exactly what I'm writing. I'm interested to see how Jimenez handles portraying the protagonist's autism and how it compares to the way I've done it, which is to just be straight up about it.

This just arrived, and the cover art is gorgeous.

 

[Kneehigh Girl]

I started The Boys From Brazil recently, and the recommendations I'm getting from Goodreads now are not flattering.

 

[Celestial Mosaic]

I have such a massive to read pile, especially after Christmas, but I can't decide what to read next dd. Anyone else get this problem?

For the time being I am catching up on some graphic novels, I can get them done in a day or so and they don't take as much effort to get through so I can unwind and see what kind of book I want next. Likely a biography. I have Cher, Demi Moore, Al Pacino and Pamela Anderson waiting to be read, as well as a new one exploring James Dean's sexuality which might be good. I already own so many books on him but he is endlessly fascinating to me. Can't get enough.

 

[constantino]

Having adored Deborah Levy's Real Estate memoir, I was really excited to read one of her novels...but unfortunately I found The Man Who Saw Everything to be impenetrable, scatty and pretty miserable.

 

[Raichu]

I saw that The Spears Cut Through Water starts in the second person, and I was horrified, but flipping through the book, I also saw that it changes to third person. Whew.

 

[jordxn]

I’ve got an ARC of Seán Hewitt’s debut novel Open, Heaven and I’m really excited to get started over the next week or so!

2025 also seems to finally be the year I embrace audiobooks - really getting a lot out of my BookBeat subscription!

 

[Your Pretty Brains]

I’ve got an ARC of Seán Hewitt’s debut novel Open, Heaven and I’m really excited to get started over the next week or so!

2025 also seems to finally be the year I embrace audiobooks - really getting a lot out of my BookBeat subscription!

Audiobooks have become my favorite medium for engaging with a story. Especially as an American who spends significant chunks of my life behind the wheel. Long commutes become excuses to get absorbed in another person's universe, whether that's a work of fiction or a work of a person's own life. Ahh... I need to start a new one since I finally listened to all the Rest is History episodes. Time to trawl through the thread for a recommendation or three!

 

[Raichu]

Almost about to finish my fifth novel of the year (The Age of Innocence). If this pace keeps up, it may be my biggest reading year.

 

[Alphableat]

I’ve got an ARC of Seán Hewitt’s debut novel Open, Heaven and I’m really excited to get started over the next week or so!

2025 also seems to finally be the year I embrace audiobooks - really getting a lot out of my BookBeat subscription!

I have been shamelessly (and unsuccessfully) begging for one. Jel!

 

[jordxn]

I have been shamelessly (and unsuccessfully) begging for one. Jel!

I’ve honestly no idea why they actually selected me as it’s not like I’m super active on my bookstagram! Plan on spending my weekend with it after I’ve finished my run of night shifts - I’ll come back and post my thoughts once I’m done!

 

[Raichu]

The Age of Innocence was a masterpiece. It may have had my favorite closing chapter ever.

 

[Snatched]

I’ve got an ARC of Seán Hewitt’s debut novel Open, Heaven and I’m really excited to get started over the next week or so!

2025 also seems to finally be the year I embrace audiobooks - really getting a lot out of my BookBeat subscription!

Is his memoir good? I am new to him really, having just read one poetry collection last month. I found it a little dense but very beautiful, I’d like to read it again really. I struggle with poetry but have been dipping my toes in lately!

 

[constantino]

Speaking of memoirs, Down and Out In Paris and London by George Orwell is giving it to me right now.

 

[LTG]

The Age of Innocence was a masterpiece. It may have had my favorite closing chapter ever.

Read that last year and loved it. You need to watch the film if you haven't. Scorsese's joked (kind of) that it's his most violent film.

 

[truman]

The ending of The Bee Sting left me gagged and gooped. Now onto Our Share of the Night by Mariana Enriquez which I've only heard great things about.