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Continue reading →: Review: Remarkably Bright CreaturesSynopsis: After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at…
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Continue reading →: Currently Reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures
We are reading this November/December 2025. Synopsis: After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she meets Marcellus,…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Bullet That MissedSynopsis: It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club is concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. Then a new…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of JanuarySynopsis: According to January Scaller, there’s only one way to run away from your own story, and that’s to sneak into someone else’s . . . In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr Locke, she feels…
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Continue reading →: Currently Reading: The Bullet That Missed
We are reading this October/November 2025. Synopsis: It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club is concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body…
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Continue reading →: Currently Reading: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
We are reading this August/September 2025. Synopsis: According to January Scaller, there’s only one way to run away from your own story, and that’s to sneak into someone else’s . . . In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of…
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Continue reading →: Review: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry AugustSynopsis: Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived…
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Continue reading →: Currently Reading: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
We are reading this July/August 2025. Synopsis: Wildly original, funny and moving, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is an extraordinary story of a life lived again and again from World Fantasy Award-winning author Claire North. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions…
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Continue reading →: Review: There are Rivers in the SkySynopsis: In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence…
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Continue reading →: Currently Reading: There are Rivers in the Sky
We are reading this June/July 2025. Synopsis: In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of…
Welcome to The Next Chapter Book Club!
We’re a small group of bookish ex-colleagues who enjoyed each other’s company so much that we decided to continue with Book Club when we were no longer colleagues.
The Next Chapter Book Club 