#Book Club Thursday

[makeusfly]

Don't Read This Book

Look, I get it. I loved Gravity Falls too. I too have spent the last several years cosplaying Wendy Corduroy and following Alex Hirsch on socials for any crumb of our favorite gruncles. I too own Dipper’s hat and Mable’s sweatshirt and consumed Lost Legends and Journal 3 and Dipper & Mabel’s Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun! Like you, I was intrigued by the wax seal reading “Travels to dimensions…

[journeythroughjourneytothewest]

[ali-ali-al1]

I need to talk to strangers on the internet about The Thursday Murder Club character Chris Hudson and the accurate depiction of a very common and very miserable relationship with food that is not usually given space in media to breathe past being the butt of a joke or an unimportant detail (god fucking bless Richard Osman). I need to talk to strangers on the internet about the Thursday Murder Club. I need a fandom (if that’s still the correct terminology) how am I meant to live like this ⁉️⁉️⁉️

[thebrightpreciousthings]

RECENT READS: "The Thursday Murder Club" by Richard Osman

“Well, imagine if we only ever did what we were supposed to.”

[midnights-wish]

"[...] He buys three other books too, because he wants the bookshop still to be there when he comes back next week."

Richard Osman, 'The Man Who Died Twice'.

[causeimanartist]

What is your favorite Thursday Murder Club member? Im particularly attached to Ron and Elizabeth.

Oooooooooh tough question because I honestly love them all but if I had to pick - it's between Ibrahim and Joyce!

[monsterintheballroom]

[nowiseemidnight]

I first picked up 'the Thursday Murder Club' (by Richard Osman) when it started appearing, not when it was first released but a little later.

it was the first book I actually bought instead of borrowing (or, I won't deny it, occasional downloading) in a long time.

maybe something in me just knew that it was worth it, but at the time I just picked it up because it was an interesting concept, and because I love English humour and this was so very English.

and I loved it. it was a brilliant book, and I re-read it a couple of times, I've read each book in the series as soon as I can.

when I picked up that first book, I never spared a thought to imagine that I would be sitting here, a good while later, two thirds of the way through the fourth book, tears rolling down my face just as surely as I laughed out loud at another scene quarter of an hour before.

this is a book that I am reading at my normal English reading speed even though it is in a language I don't usually read in, mostly speak. it's wonderfully written and beautifully put together.

so I'm just so grateful to Richard Osman and everyone who put this book together, for giving me one of the most incredible series I've ever read, and I thoroughly recommend it <3

[tiffanyachings]

i can’t believe i’ve got plans for every single evening this week…..who is she

[anicejuicymurder]

So, as well as watching murder mysteries, I very much enjoy reading them, but I never thought of posting about the books I read here before. In all honesty, I'm not great at knowing how to write about books! But I thought I might give it a try

I recently read the fourth instalment in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series—a series which became an instant favourite when I read the first book a couple of years ago. And not a single book has disappointed since! Osman's style is snappy and he's able to balance wit and poignancy without ever becoming saccharine. Each character has a distinct voice, but it never feels jarring to switch between them each chapter.

And the latest book, The Last Devil To Die, might be my favourite yet! It's incredibly emotional—one part, which I won't spoil, but might not be the part anyone who's read it is thinking of, made me downright sob—but still funny and insightful and, more importantly, a damn good mystery. Very much looking forward to the new series—about a father in law & daughter in law detective duo—he teased in the notes at the end

[lifeimitatesart1998]

A cosy Saturday 📖☕️

[makeusfly]

Love, Theoretically

When women say they want “a man written by a woman,” they’re talking about the ones written by Ali Hazelwood. Or maybe that’s just me. I have no interest in romantic relationships with men, much less sex with one, but if they were all like Adam Carlsen or Levi Ward, I might reconsider. Her latest romantic hero, Jack Smith-Turner of Love, Theoretically, fits the archetype perfectly. It’s…

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top 9 books

tagged by @rosieposiepuddingnpie - thank you and curse you, this is my least favorite/favorite thing to do!

The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (a book about the love of books and story-telling, another great example of this is Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr but this edges it out just a little in my all time faves. Also consider this a stand-in for Erin Morgenstern's other gem: The Night Circus.)

The Secret History, by Donna Tartt (I always waffle between the dark academia vibes of this or the snowy Amsterdam/dry Las Vegas heat of The Goldfinch - they're both absolute perfection and have gay undertones so they bounce back and forth depending on the day.)

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (you know how people use 'sweeping tale' to describe certain books? That's this one. It just whisks you away. I know everything there is to know about the Stephanides clan and I'm a better person for it.)

The Bedlam Stacks, by Natasha Pulley (Honestly, also consider this a stand-in for every Natasha Pulley book there is. Sometimes my favorite is The Half Life of Valery K, sometimes it's The Watchmaker of Filigree Street series, sometimes it's The Kingdoms; it's really whose yearning I'm vibing with the most that day: Valery and Shenkov? Thaniel and Mori? Merrick and Raphael? Joe and Kite? It varies.)

The Stand, by Stephen King (I also really want to put Holly in that spot, I just finished it and I haven't loved a Stephen King book like that since The Stand - the only reason I didn't is because Holly is, at least for now, the last book in a series that is a spin-off of a series and every other book in those series don't hit the level of Holly, at all.)

Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman (this can also act as a stand-in for A Man Called Ove as well since I love them both for the exact same reason - they believe in the best in people. They make you feel better about humanity in general.)

The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune (I will also point out that I have yet to read a TJ Klune book I haven't loved and that is not an insignificant amount now. This one is an older queer love story with the added bonus of found family. It's magical and heart-full and kind)

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (Also a big lover of The Martian but this has something extra special for me - the alien was unique and I cared so much about every character that even glanced across the pages.)

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto (I laughed, I loved, I goggled at Vera's incredible ability to bring people together - a more motley crew of people there is not and yet somehow Vera not only makes it work, she makes them family <3)

Special shoutout to Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus, I read this semi-recently (within the last year) so I don't know if my gaga-ness with it will fade or not but right now I'm like: this should absolutely be on this list, I just don't know if that's gonna hold or not. The writing is absolutely gorgeous and the plot is perfect, I just don't know if it's top ten nine perfect, y'know? Also to S.A. Cosby - Razorblade Tears is literally hanging off the end of this list by its fingernails (also read everything else by him because it's all good!).

Ongoing series - that either aren't finished or that I haven't finished so they're not cemented yet (aka Maddie cheats so she can have more spots): The Thursday Murder Club series, by Richard Osman (it's up to four books now and they are absolute perfection - it's a series that believes the best in people, even its villains, no one is allowed to be one note and you never know who it's going to pick up and keep forever), The Monk & Robot series, by Becky Chambers (it's just such a quiet, peaceful little sci-fi series that loves its characters and tea), Empire of the Vampire, by Jay Kristoff (absolutely no notes on the first book, I was stressed out and ravenous), The Infernal War Saga, by Hailey Turner (pitch perfect first two books, I'm obsessed with everyone and, like, borderline too into Honovi and Blaine??), Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree (this book is kind and it's found family and it's Cozy High Fantasy, like, who even knew how badly I needed that?! - a prequel is due out next month!), The Expanse series, by James S.A. Corey (okay, I know this is done but I am only through book six, though so far absolutely every one has been perfect), The Amina al-Sirafi Series, by S.A. Chakraborty (the first book is so good, which I am zero percent surprised by because I five-starred my way all the way through The Daevabad Trilogy as well!), and the Susan Ryeland series, by Anthony Horowitz (these mysteries are absolutely right up my alley - because who's investigating them? An editor of the first book's murdered author. I hope he can manage to keep these going because they are so damn good!)

tagged: @andavs, @maichan808, @callunavulgari, @midnightisquiet, @bleep0bleep, @petals42, @emeraldawn, @melowdeee, @alocalband, also anyone else who wants to do this - i love seeing people's literature tastes!!

[midnights-wish]

''More women are murdering people these days,' says Joyce. 'If you ignore the context, it is a real sign of progress.''

Richard Osman, 'The Man Who Died Twice'.

[shoesallinaline]

Thursday Murder Club series, I read you for the cozy mystery of it all and the humor, not to cry and feel a sense of my own mortality 🥺

[a03-anxiousandafraid]

Yesterday I went for a walk with my guy and on a whim we decided to stop at a local cider place that was on the way since it was nice out and we were enjoying just being out and chatting. We aren't big drinkers and holy shit am i embarrassed to admit a pint glass took my ass OUT. We were messes. Like, not drunk and incapable of functioning, but definitely "oh holy shit I FEEL this and I'm in public so now I'm anxious about the fact that I can't feel my face."

...so we did the most logical thing possible and stopped at the book store just a few storefronts down. I have so many books on my bedside table waiting to be read but I still walked out with 4 new books and as soon as we got back to the apartment I called my mom to tell her about how I was excited to read these books about murder and existentialism over mortality...

The best part was my mom calling me after work today to ask if I'm okay and if I had a hangover. LMFAO No hangover and still excited about my murder books, we good.

Actual footage of me tipsy af in the mystery section: