July's Book Club Pick!

It's JADE CITY by Fonda Lee!!!
I talked about this elsewhere before, but now I feel really good about this book. I'm fully invested. I'm on the ride. I'm excited to see where Fonda Lee takes me.

(Double the pools, double the fun.)
I'll be attending San Diego Comic-Con this year (and announcing some exciting news while I'm there 👀) so we won't have our LIVE book club discussion until after I'm home! Tentatively our chat is scheduled for Wednesday, July 29th, but I'll post before then with a confirmation and link. :)

Also! Expect a reading vlog of this book to be released a couple days before. This copy has traveled with me to Alaska and Vegas, so maybe I'll have to show it San Diego, too, lolol.

Thanks everyone and happy reading!

All the Books I Bought on My 1st Book Tour

Please excuse the preponderance of stats I'm about to throw at you. The books I bought were:

• 53% hardcover vs. 47% paperback
• 80% new-to-me stories (since I bought a copy of my own book, Becca's book that I beta read, and the Agatha Christie classic)
• 20% nonfiction (Now Departing, How to Write Erotica, and The Haves and Have-Yachts)
• From 7 different independent bookstores (Liz's Book Bar, Love & Legends, Mysterious Bookshop, The Fountain Bookshop, Books Are Magic, The Ripped Bodice, and McNally Jackson Books)
• 20% Fantasy (Jade City, Burn the Sea, Graceless Heart), 20% Romance (Love Bites, The Princess and the P.I., Gwen and Art Are Not In Love), 7% Contemporary (Superfan), 7% Horror (Thrall), and 26% Mystery/Thriller (The Ending Writes Itself, And Then There Were None, Grandma's Little Secret, and my book, Thanks For Watching)

I'd love to get a stat on how many of the books have death as a central theme or plot point, but I might need to wait until I read them all. 👀 Dare I guess 50%???
One of these stories is also going to be our first ever book club pick, coming in May! I am so very excited. (And I'll give you a hint: it's in the fantasy category.)
Thanks, Story Scouts! Chat with you as soon as I've finished recovering from all the travel. In the meantime, happy reading! 📖