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The 52 Book Club Blog
06.05.2024
May 2024 Mini-Challenge Have you been missing the May minis? One of our moderators, Tara, recently pointed out that we haven’t had a May Mini-Challenge since 2021. It’s been far too lon…
01.05.2024
Book Review Disturbing the Dead by Kelley ArmstrongMystery | Time Travel | Historical Fiction ★★★★ The third book in Kelley Armstrong’s A Rip Through Time series is the latest in this fascina…
29.04.2024
Book Lover’s Box April 2024 Book Box from Walton Wood Farms New to the market of book boxes is Walton Wood Farms’ Book Lover’s Box. In addition to a newly released book, this Cana…
26.04.2024
Book Review For a Lifetime by Gabrielle MeyerHistorical Fiction | Time Travel | Romance ★★★★ Twin sisters, Grace and Hope come from a long line of time travelers. But the twins have a unique abilit…
17.04.2024
Book Review Darling Girls by Sally HepworthThriller | Mystery | Suspense ★★★★★ As young girls, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia were raised by foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate.…
03.04.2024
Book Review The Secret Keeper by Genevieve GrahamHistorical Fiction | WWII ★★★★ Reader’s Thoughts: The Secret Keeper is the newest novel from bestselling author, Genevieve Graham, and is anot…
02.04.2024
April 2024 Mini-Challenge It’s April Fool’s Day and you know we love having fun with our challenges! So, what better theme for an April 1st mini-challenge than the classic internet pran…
21.03.2024
Book Review To Slip the Bonds of Earth by Amanda FlowerHistorical Mystery | Cozy ★★★★ “While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Kathar…
05.03.2024
2023 Challenge Journal This post contains affiliate links; as an Amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. A few months ago, we released our very first 52 Book Club Journal to pair with o…
02.03.2024
Booklover’s Book Box February 2024 Book Box from Walton Wood Farms A few months ago, I was contacted by Walton Wood Farms (a Canadian bath and body product company) and invited to try their n…
29.02.2024
Book Review Listen for the Lie by Amy TinteraMystery | Thriller ★★★★★ Reader’s Thoughts: What if everyone in town thought you’d murdered your best friend? What if no one believed you wh…
Book Review The Foxhole Victory Tour by Amy Lynn GreenHistorical Fiction | Christian Fiction | WWII ★★★★ Reader’s Thoughts: A few years ago, I stumbled across a debut epistolary by Amy Lynn G…
16.02.2024
Book Review Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle CosimanoMystery | Humor ★★★★ Reader’s Thoughts: Finlay and Vero are back and up to their regular shenanigans in this fourth installment of th…
09.02.2024
April 2024 Readalong The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn & Janie Chang Ready for our second readalong of 2024? We’re thrilled to announce that the book choice for our April 2024 readalong is&…
06.02.2024
Book Review The Woman With No Name by Audrey Blake Historical Fiction | WWII ★★★★★ Audrey Blake is admittedly one of my favorite authors, which means that I didn’t even bother reading the des…
03.02.2024
February 2024 Mini-Challenge Are you ready for our very first mini-challenge of 2024? February has numerous events and celebrations and today we’re highlighting three of them with three new m…
23.01.2024
Ready for a giveaway? Have you had your eye on the 2024 stickers from PlanItWithStickers? Want a chance to win a set for yourself or a friend? We have TEN *B-grade* sets of 2024 Prompt Stickers tha…
21.01.2024
Book Review The Lost Van Gogh by Jonathan SantloferMystery | Historical Fiction | Art ★★★★ Reader’s Thoughts: Having enjoyed the author’s first book, The Last Mona Lisa, I was very exci…
19.01.2024
Book Review Who to Believe by Edwin HillPsychological Thriller | Mystery | Suspense ★★★★★ Reader’s Thoughts: In a coastal town in New England, a shocking murder occurs. Laura Thibodeau has be…
17.01.2024
Book Review The Busy Body by Kemper DonovanMystery | Cozy Mystery ★★★★ Reader’s Thoughts: From the host of the All About Agatha podcast, Kemper Donovan, comes an entertaining new mystery seri…
13.01.2024
Book Review The Fury by Alex MichaelidesThriller | Mystery ★★★★★ Reader’s Thoughts: From the author of the bestselling thriller, The Silent Patient, comes a new story about a reclusive ex-mov…
10.01.2024
Book Review Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie PookHistorical Fiction | Mystery ★★★★ Reader’s Thoughts: This is one of those stories that I went into, fully not knowing what to e…
22.12.2023
Book Review What Waits in the Woods by Terri ParlatoThriller | Mystery ★★★★ Reader’s Thoughts: When Esme’s career as a ballerina falls apart due to an injury, she has no choice but to r…
20.12.2023
Read It, Watch It Challenge A 2024 Bonus Challenge Let’s read. And watch! Our “Read It, Watch It” is an optional, bonus challenge that ties into the prompts you’re already r…
19.12.2023
Book Review Into the Fire by Irene HannonRomantic Suspense | Christian Fiction ★★★★ Bri Tucker is an arson investigator with a curious puzzle on her hands. One of her former co-workers has died in …
10.12.2023
Congratulations, you crushed those 2023 goals! The year is drawing to a close, and it’s time to celebrate your reading success! Whether you read five books, or five hundred, we hope 2023 was …
05.12.2023
December 2023 Mini-Challenge Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favorite thin…
03.12.2023
January 2024 Readalong The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb What better way to start a new year, than with a new readalong? For our January 2024 readalong, we will be buddy reading The Violin C…
23.11.2023
Book Review The Jazz Club Spy by Roberta RichHistorical Fiction | Spy ★★★★ Reader’s Thoughts: When you read a lot of historical fiction set in the late 1930s and early 1940s, it can be diffic…
21.11.2023
2024 Challenge Journal This post contains affiliate links; as an Amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Want an easy and fun way to track your 52 Book Club 2024 challenge reads? Earlie…
18.11.2023
Our 2024 challenge is here with fifty-two new prompts designed to challenge each of us! Some years are trickier than others, and we think that 2024 will definitely help push us to try new authors a…
Need some help finding books to fit your 2024 challenge? We’ve created a Goodreads List for *almost* every prompt on our 2024 Reading Challenge. These lists are an easy way to gather ideas an…
07.11.2023
Book Review The Name Drop by Susan LeeRomance | YA | Contemporary ★★★★ This was a super sweet rom-com featuring two characters who share the same Korean name and are accidentally mistaken for each …
04.11.2023
November 2023 Mini-Challenge Eagerly awaiting the release of our 2024 challenge? Next year’s challenge will be dropping sometime this month, but to tide you over until then, we’ve got a…
31.10.2023
Book Review Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose by Nancy SpringerYA | Mystery | Historical Fiction | Adventure ★★★★ Enola is back and just as determined and unstoppable as ever. And this nint…
28.10.2023
Book Review It Happened One Christmas by Chantel GuertinChristmas Romance | Contemporary ★★★ Earlier this year, I received the sweetest little “Christmas in July” box from Penguin Rando…
21.10.2023
Book Review The Girl Who Was Taken by Charlie DonleaMystery | Thriller | Suspense ★★★★★ When it comes to mysteries and thrillers, I have a pretty good track record at figuring things out before the…
18.10.2023
Book Review Being Henry by Henry WinklerMemoir ★★★★★ The first thing that jumped out at me while reading the blurb for this memoir was that Henry Winkler is “… widely-regarded as the ni…
16.10.2023
Book Review The Exchange by John GrishamFiction | Mystery | Legal Thriller ★★★★ The Firm is one of my favorite Grisham novels. When news hit that we were expecting a sequel to the bestselling story…
13.10.2023
Book Review The Connelly’s of County Down by Tracey LangeFiction | Literary Fiction ★★★★★ I will openly admit that general fiction and literary fiction aren’t genres I find myself natur…