# 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!

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# 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! 📖

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