The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion
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1 -- A Pun In The Title
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Jan 01, 2025 09:39AM
All the Jingle Ladies is what I’m reading
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A Rebel Without Claws by Juliette Cross releases in February and I think that will be my punny book :)
Abby wrote: "I’m going to read The Hating Game for this prompt"I ended up finishing this! I need to slow myself down in pacing, haha
I just finished The Uncommon Reader. A very short little book that was fun to read. Perfect for bookish people.
Lisa Marie wrote: "Went through my entire TBR list and I actually felt a few books that will fit this prompt (I THINK)....here is what I have to choose from:*Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. S..."</i>
I have decided to read [book:A Surrey State of Affairs: A Novel by Ceri Radford
HAPPY READING!!
I’ve selected, “Delusions of Gender,” by Cordelia Fine! I’m excited to have found a non-fiction option 🥳
I think I'll read A Batter of Life and Death (I read the first book in the series last year; it was called Meet Your Baker).
Just getting started. will try to do the best I can with this years challenge. Would "The Cereal Murders" be considered a pun in the title? I think it is... I already own this book so it would be handy.
Terry wrote: "Just getting started. will try to do the best I can with this years challenge. Would "The Cereal Murders" be considered a pun in the title? I think it is... I already own this book so it would be h..."I’m not in charge of this challenge but I think it would count!
I just found A Murder Is Announced (by Agatha Christie) in a box of books in my garage - Google says this is a pun, it feels like a pun, and yet I can't think of a saying that it is a pun of? Doesn't there need to be an original saying that is changed - does anyone know what that would be? Or am I still not understanding puns?
I'm wavering between "Kittyzen's Arrest" by Addison Moore and Bellamy Bloom and Heaven Cent by Piers Anthony. I'm leaning toward Piers Anthony, since he was the King of Puns.
A Scot to the Heart. It's a romance.
Terry wrote: "Just getting started. will try to do the best I can with this years challenge. Would "The Cereal Murders" be considered a pun in the title? I think it is... I already own this book so it would be h..."I would say yes as well, Cereal vs Serial seems like a pun to me.
read The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde for this one, and I enjoyed it so much I'm reading the other plays in the book!
I plan to read "The Sword in the Scone" by Kirsten Weiss (#6 in her Tea and Tarot mystery series). All or almost all of the books in this series use puns/plays on words in the titles:1. Steeped in Murder
2. Hostage to Fortune
3. Oolong, Farewell
4. Never Say Chai
5. Gingerbread Dead
6. The Sword in the Scone
7. The Mysteries of Tarot
8. Darjeeling Dead
9. Matcha Murder
I planned to read The Most Wonderful Crime of The Year. I just finished it today and loved it a solid 4 star read for me.
I'm planning on reading Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher, mainly because I was to experiment with non-ficion/autobiography style books (it will probably be the only one I read this year!)
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. Also fits prompts #2, #21, #22, #36, #43 & #48…as well as a few others!
I had to start reading because I was overthinking my book planning. I'm going to read a Discworld for this prompt.
I read the book All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata. It's a slow-burn romance set in the mountains, and I couldn't put it down. Highly recommended!
I chose Expiration Dates! Thought this one was gonna be hard to find but this one was siting right in my TBR :)
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