#CatChatBookClub Friends.

hooray, one of the 2 libraries I belong to, has this as e-book-thanks! Sometimes I read serious novels but sometimes I want a quick thriller and sounds like this fits that! #catchatbookclub My own thriller recs are old- early Tess Gerritsen (the Surgeon); early Patricia Cornwell (Body Farm).

📣 1 of 2: Looking ahead to next month’s #CatChatBookClub, we’ll embrace our traditional “Non-Fiction-November” theme (not compulsory of course). I hope you’re happier about it than I look in the pic 😹 Biographies, true crime, history books, cookery books, craft/hobbies books…

A third book which mum read & which fits the #CatChatBookClub theme is “The Hike” by Lucy Clarke. As a group of female friends go on a hiking trip in challenging terrain, tension and foreboding are in abundance! 🙀 A fast paced thriller altho not ‘outstanding’ in mum’s view.

As well as the “Fright”📕 mum also embraced the “Delight” aspect of our October #CatChatBookClub theme. Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series has brought her lots of joy over recent years so she was keen to read the latest installment! It did not disappoint! Mum LOVED it 😁

The first book mum chose, for our October #CatChatBookClub theme, was The Small Hand by Susan Hill. Our dear friends @lisaclayton.bsky.social introduced us to this author a few years ago, so she’s our ‘go-to’ now for spooky stories that don’t completely traumatise us!🙀😹👻 We loved it!

Welcome to October #CatChatBookClub 😺📚 This month we’ve been choosing between books to give us FRIGHTS & books to give us DELIGHT! Or maybe you have read something completely different! 😹 Join in by using club hashtag & tell us about your reading choice - scary or not 👻

I like potatoes. And books. #CatChatBookClub

The rest of the world changed their clocks before the USA. For #catchatbookclub today at 8 pm UK time. USA - East coast 4 pm Central 3 pm Mountain 2 pm West coast 1 pm

Currently reading this. Has anyone else read it? #CatChatBookClub

My sister’s husband died almost 2 years ago and I read this to see if I thought it would help her. Joan Didion is very honest in discussing her overwhelming grief over a year’s time in her husband’s sudden death. #CatChatBookClub

Read this and really enjoyed. Written by a security officer at the Metropolitan Museum for 10 years. Lots of interesting observations. #CatChatBookClub

Starting my next a book. Janie was convicted of killing her mother. Her sentence was overturned & now she is out looking for the real killer #catchatbookclub #littlebearbookub

Just a reminder that it’s our October #CatChatBookClub meet-up this Sunday, 26 October, 8pm UK time. Everyone & all book chat are welcome! Just search/use club hashtag 😸 📚 ( ‼️ Check your world clock if outside UK, as UK clocks ⏰ go back this weekend which may affect you)

My favorite on-line book club. Also, on Twitter. #CatChatBookClub

📣 For October #CatChatBookClub we are embracing the spooky season for our reading theme! We know not everyone enjoys scary books, so we give you a choice: “FRIGHTS OR DELIGHTS" - creepy thrills vs. heartwarming fun! Book-chat will be on Sunday 26 October at 8pm UK time 😸 🎃 👻

Welcome to September 2025 #CatChatBookClub 😺📚 Today we’re looking forward to hearing about your books with a “Back to School Vibe” 😸❤️ 📕 As always, ALL book-chat, is most welcome, though, regardless of theme! Just search 🔍 & use club hashtag to join in! Enjoy cake too!

Our #CatChatBookClub get together is today…Sun 28 September, 8pm UK time. Some of us have been reading books with a “Back to School Vibe” but all book chat is most welcome. Just use the club hashtag to search for book reviews & recommendations & to post your own!

Welcome to August 2025 #CatChatBookClub 😺📚 Today we’re looking forward to hearing about your “Favourite Book of All Time” 😸❤️ 📕 As always, ALL book-chat, is most welcome, regardless of theme! Just search 🔍 & use club hashtag to join in! Enjoy noms too!

I thought the movie, The Prince of Tides, was better than the book. Usually I think books are better. #CatChatBookClub

📣 Looking ahead to August 2025 #CatChatBookClub & our tweetup will be on 31 Aug (fifth Sunday) so we don’t clash with #Nipfest2025 😹 We have a pawsome member-suggestion for our theme “My Favourite Book of All-Time” 😸❤️ 📚 (Continued 1 of 2….)

I also think books are often better than the movies. One exception for me was The Devil Wears Prada. I saw the movie first and thought the book would be even better. Ended up being disappointed and preferring the movie. Meryl Streep lifts up anything she is in. #CatChatBookClub

For the #CatChatBookClub “Books which became MOVIES” theme, Mum chose to read “Chocolat” by Joanne Harris, which she enjoyed just as much as a bar of 🍫 itself! 😹 The story was lovely & moving, the characters super. Magical. Good messages to take away from it. (1 of 3…. cont)

Welcome to July 2025 #CatChatBookClub 😺📚 This month, some of us have been reading books made into MOVIES/TV PROGS but we look forward to ALL book-chat & hearing about everyone’s chosen reads, regardless of theme! Just search 🔍 & use club hashtag to join in! Enjoy noms too!

📣 The big day is almost here… our #CatChatBookClub meet-up for July is tomorrow, Sun 27 July 8pm UK time 😸🎉 Our theme is “Books made into MOVIES/TV PROGS” but ALL book chat is most welcome. Do join in by searching & using the hashtag in your posts 📚

Cozy mystery for #CatChatBookclub

📣 Our #CatChatBookClub reading theme for July is “Books made into MOVIES/TV PROGS” 🎥 Can you believe that this week’s TV Times, here in UK, features a number of suggestions 😹 but we know you’ll have more. Do share ideas! Meet up to discuss: Sun 27 July 8pm UK time 📚 🎥 🍿

Welcome to June 2025 #CatChatBookClub 😺📚 This month, some of us have been reading “SUMMER ESCAPES” 🏖️ ☀️ but we look forward to ALL book-chat & hearing about everyone’s chosen reads, regardless of theme! Just search 🔍 & use club hashtag to join in! Enjoy noms too 😹 🍰 ☕️ 🍹

Audiobook Narrator Spotlight: Diana Croft @dicroft.bsky.social www.dianacroft.com This is a perfect series for #CatChatBookclub "The Widows' Guide to Murder" by Amanda Ashby

📣 Our next #CatChatBookClub tweetup is today, Sunday, 22 June, at 8pm UK time. Some readers are enjoying “Summer Escapes” but all book-chat will be most welcome & everyone can join in. Just use & search the club hashtag 😸 📚

Mum’s third read, this month, was “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey. It fit the “Blast from the Past” theme as the winner of the Booker Prize last year & was recommended at past #CatChatBookClub tweetups! A beautiful, reflective, poetic & philosophic novel. Mum really loved it.

Watched the TV series, Silo, and now reading 2 of the books, Wool and Shift, by Hugh Howey. I don’t normally read science fiction but this series has grabbed my attention. #CatChatBookClub

I enjoyed reading The Gatsby Gambit. Same characters as Fitzgerald’s book including Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Nick but has addition of Gatsby’s little sister. There’s a murder and she has to figure out who done it. Fun to revisit West Egg. #CatChatBookClub

Tom Robbins died recently. Re-reading the 1st book of his I ever read. I first read it in like 8th grade & was then enthralled with 2nd person narration / POV for YEARS. #catchatbookclub

I attended one of Dr Walker’s lectures. He is brilliant. Flower & I are loving his audiobook. This is where we heard the fun shark & bird facts. #catchatbookclub

We read another Cat in the Stacks book. Absolutely loving this series. Diesel the cat is awesome. #catchatbookclub

Mum’s second read of the month was “The Magickal Summer of Evie Edelman” (for village book club) which also fits our #CatChatBookClub ‘Blast from the Past’ theme, as it was set in 1982. (Book not published until 5 June.) Mum found it an “okay” read but wasn’t really gripped.

Mum absolutely loves the Roy Grace books by Peter James, having discovered the series part way through. She’d never read the books prior to that, so thanks to the "Blast from the Past" #CatChatBookClub theme, she picked up the very first Roy Grace book ... “Dead Simple" 👍

📣 Welcome to May 2025 #CatChatBookClub Everyone can join in! 😺 📚 This month some of us have chosen to read a book associated with a BLAST FROM THE PAST but we look forward to hearing about everyone’s chosen reads! Just search 🔍 & use the club hashtag!

📣 It’s nearly time for another #CatChatBookClub meet-up, chums! All can join in! 😸 📚 🎉 Any book chat - on theme or not - is most welcome. Be there or be square on Sunday 25 May at 8pm UK time! Just search 🔍 & use the club hashtag!

📣 Day 1 (1 of 2) of #HedgehogWeek: One of the most important things to remember about hedgehogs, is ‼️OUT IN THE DAY IS NOT OKAY 🦔 ‼️ Hedgehogs are Nocturnal. If you see a 🦔 out in the day, it is almost certainly very poorly & in need of help #Hedgewatch (cont) Video shows a healthy🦔 at night!

Hello #Hedgewatch As some of you know, we take part in #30DaysWild each June. If you’re not aware of it, here’s the details. If you’re not in the UK we love to see how you can adapt the challenges to suit your environment. 😻 www.wildlifetrusts.org/30dayswild?u... @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

📣 Our theme for MAY #CatChatBookClub is “BLAST FROM THE PAST”. All tenuous links to the past are good…be they history books (fiction/non-fiction), books you read years ago, books set in a past era… the list is endless. But of course ALL book chat is welcome at meeting on Sun 25 May at 8pm UK time.

I’ve discovered that #WontLookWednesday is a thing! It’s purrfect for me! 😼😹 #Hedgewatch