Welcome Readers
My name is Cyn and each week we (me and my BFF Ann from Romancing the Readers) blog all about books and book related topics on something we call Book Club Thursday(BCT).
This week we are wrapping up 2017 by highlighting a few of our favorite BCT posts, talking about what we are doing on BCT 2018 and sharing our excitement for books we can't wait for in the new year.
I'm just going to mention a few books that I read/reviewed for BCT -just click on the sentence to be taken to the post.
LOVED:
A book with a clever title
MIXED FEELINGS:
A book that taught you about something you are unfamiliar with
NOT A FAN:
Oddly enough all three of these were the books we chose for our joint reviews but I'm only going to mention the one I liked the least
Joint Review
Next I'm going to touch on our calendar for 2018. Like last year we have a new/fresh look we will be rolling out on Jan 4th . For full details click here but otherwise here is a snapshot:
January
4 Getting to
Know Us- Spotlight On
11 Thursday Rewind-
Remember When
18 Cover
Talk
25 Reading Challenge
February
1st Getting to Know
Us – Speed Round
8 Thursday
Rewind- In Case You Missed It
15 Clearing Off the Book Shelves
22 Reading
Challenge
March
1st Getting to Know
Us- Spotlight On
8 Thursday Rewind-
Golden Oldie
15 True Confessions
22 Reading Challenge
29 Joint Review
April
5 Getting to
Know Us- Nitty Gritty
12 Thursday Rewind-
Sloppy Seconds
19 Riddle Me
26 Reading
Challenge
May
3 Getting to
Know Us- Spotlight On
10 Thursday Rewind-
In Case You Missed It
17 Cover Talk
24 Reading
Challenge
31 Joint Review
June
7 Getting to
Know Us- Speed Round
14 Thursday
Rewind- Golden Oldie
21 Clearing
Off the Book Shelves
28 Reading
Challenge
July
5 Getting to
Know Us- Spotlight On
12 Thursday
Rewind- Remember When
19 True Confessions
26 Reading
Challenge
August
2 Getting to
Know Us- Nitty Gritty
9 Thursday
Rewind- In Case You Missed It
16 Riddle
Me
23 Reading Challenge
30 Joint
Review
September
6 Getting to
Know Us- Spotlight On
13 Thursday Rewind-
Golden Oldie
20 Cover Talk
27 Reading
Challenge
October
4 Getting to
Know Us- Speed Round
11 Thursday
Rewind – Sloppy Seconds
18 Clearing Off the
Book Shelves
25 Reading Challenge
November
1st Getting to Know Us- Spotlight On
8 Thursday
Rewind- In Case You Missed It
15 True
Confessions
22 Reading
Challenge
29 Joint
Review
December
6 Getting to Know Us- Nitty Gritty
13 Riddle Me
20 Reading Challenge
27 Wrap Up and 2019
So as a teaser, we always like to post our Reading Challenge list here, especially since we WANT YOU to join in. On these weeks read ANY BOOK you want that fits any of the listed challenges.
Here's the list for 2018:
Read a book published before 2010
Read a book published in the month
(not year) you were born
Read a book set in your home state
Read a book with a cover you don’t
like
Read a book you once gave up on
Read a book with a clever title
Read a new to you author
Start a new series
Read a hardcover
Read a trade
Read a “small-town” romance
Read a book with a favorite trope
Read a historical set anywhere but
the USA
Read a book you keep meaning to read
Read a book that taught you something
Read a Trifecta book (sounds, cover, title must all be same theme)
Anger Management (a book that PISSED you off at some point)
Anything Goes (read ANYTHING you want)
Just Because (you read this “just because”…state the reason)
Bird- Beast – Fish (atypical animals are part of the story)
Land-Sea-Sky (features bodies of water, mountains, planes etc)
Double Dip (can
re- do any challenge)
An Apple a Day (medical main character(s))
Recommend By (say
who / what )
I Tried, But… (one you couldn’t finish and why)
Second Chances (an author you are giving a “second” chance to)
Hot for Teacher (main character(s)is a teacher)
Read a historical set in the USA
The Great Outdoors (main character(s) work outdoors)
AKA (author
with a pseudonym)
BOO! ( book
with a ghost)
Survivors (books
with hard subject matter)
Last but not least is something we have done just about every end of the year- we call it "I want that" or something to that effect LOL
But here are few titles I REALLY WANT. REALLY. Actually I have so many it was hard to narrow it down but I went with only three!
The upcoming Ruth Ware:
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
(no cover image yet available)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fourth novel.
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.
Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it.
Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.
Pre-order: Amazon
Author Link: Website
The upcoming Amanda Quick:
The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s California--where the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets...
After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over.
Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover.
In Burning Cove, no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers, gangsters, and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda. Adelaide and Jake know better than to fall for her kind of con. But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed, they're drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection.
Neither Adelaide nor Jake can predict that in the shadowy underground they'll find connections to the woman Adelaide used to be--and uncover the specter of a killer who's been real all along...
Pre-order: Amazon
Author Link: Website
The upcoming Aimee Molloy:
Some people are so good at making perfect look easy.
They call themselves the May Mothers—a collection of new moms who gave birth in the same month. Twice a week, with strollers in tow, they get together in Prospect Park, seeking refuge from the isolation of new motherhood; sharing the fears, joys, and anxieties of their new child-centered lives.
When the group’s members agree to meet for drinks at a hip local bar, they have in mind a casual evening of fun, a brief break from their daily routine. But on this sultry Fourth of July night during the hottest summer in Brooklyn’s history, something goes terrifyingly wrong: one of the babies is taken from his crib. Winnie, a single mom, was reluctant to leave six-week-old Midas with a babysitter, but the May Mothers insisted that everything would be fine. Now Midas is missing, the police are asking disturbing questions, and Winnie’s very private life has become fodder for a ravenous media.
Though none of the other members in the group is close to the reserved Winnie, three of them will go to increasingly risky lengths to help her find her son. And as the police bungle the investigation and the media begin to scrutinize the mothers in the days after Midas goes missing, damaging secrets are exposed, marriages are tested, and friendships are formed and fractured.
Unfolding over the course of thirteen fraught days and culminating in an exquisite and unexpected twist, The Perfect Mother is the perfect book for our times—a nuanced and addictively readable story that exposes the truth of modern mothers’ lives as it explores the power of an ideal that is based on a lie.
Pre-order: Amazon
Author Link: Website
to see all about her 2017 wrap up and most wanted books for 2018 and
January 4th:
Getting to Know Us: Spotlight On
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