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The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman

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Thursday Murder Club is a perfectly suitable novel for someone looking for a fast read that’s funny enough. I picked it up from the new paperback release display at a local bookshop on a lark. It’s a title that’s been read by a few people I know or mentioned in some “currently reading” or “recently read” or maybe even a “recommended read” list or conversation a few times. I had already read the synopsis and thought, Hm. Should maybe try that sometime. and just never really found myself […]

“Very few things are so important you would risk your life for them, but all sorts of things are important enough to risk somebody else’s life.”

The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) by Richard Osman

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In one word: Humanity Cannonball Read Bingo: Time Squeeeeeeeal. I LOVE YOU FOREVER RICHARD OSMAN. Never ever ever EVERRRRR stop writing these books or it will break my heart. I couldn’t believe my fortune when I saw this book on the “hot picks” shelf at my library, thus allowing me to skip the line of who knows how many people to get it into my eager hands. Once you pick up an Osman book, time is of the essence, in that you will want to […]

With Joyce as my witness

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

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This book is like a hug for your soul. And since I listened to the audio book, for the ears. I loved Thursday Murder Club, and when some trusted fellow readers told me the second one was even better, I was skeptical. But it’s so good! I love Joyce. I love Elizabeth. I love Ron and Ibrihim. Did I mention I love Joyce? The plot doesn’t really matter; it’s enough to get to hang out with these wonderful characters. But, in case you need more […]

“Some people in life, Sue, are weather forecasters, whereas other people are the weather itself.”

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

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In One Word: Satisfying LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK. LOVE IT. The only thing I don’t like about it is that I’m done reading it and I can’t read it again the first time. This is the second book in Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series and I really tried to hold out on reading it, since I just finished the first a month ago, but I could not wait. I saw a review from someone who said they loved the first one and they loved […]

I love this series so much.

The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman

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I don’t even want to talk about it. I kind of want to read both books in the series again right now. They’re just the perfect mix of humor, pathos, mystery, cleverness, impishness, and intrigue. I continue to be so, so impressed by the way that Osman mixes these various elements together so well, so that one moment you’re laughing, one minute you’re puzzling out the mystery elements, and another you’re extremely sad because these character so perfectly represent the tragedy of being human, which […]

“The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air.”

The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1) by Richard Osman

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This really hit the spot, and it had a lot more emotional depth than I was expecting from it! I think I was expecting something more on the cozy mystery side of things, something lightweight, and it did have a bit of that feel to it as well. But this also had a larger scope than a cozy mystery, way more characters, and a lot more focus on uncozy things, sad and emotional things—like accepting death and dying, the realities of getting older, dealing with […]



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