Badass Book Babes

This month's book club selection is **"Good Girl's Guide to Murder"** by Holly Jackson. Join us for an exciting bonfire at the Crown Point beach fire pits—don't forget to bring your favorite drink or snack, or both!

Location:
Google Maps: Crown Point Beach
Bayside Walk, San Diego, CA 92109
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From Goodreads Book Synopsis:
In the chilling tale set in a small town, the beautiful and popular high school senior, Andie Bell, was brutally murdered, and her boyfriend, Sal Singh, was accused of the crime before taking his own life. Five years later, the shadow of that tragedy still looms over the community, but senior Pip feels compelled to uncover the truth behind the headlines.

Pip, who knew Sal as a kind-hearted child, can't believe he could have been a murderer. Determined to bring justice to the memory of a boy whose innocence may have been overlooked, she embarks on an investigation for her final project that digs deep into the unsolved case. As she unveils dark secrets, Pip realizes that someone in Fairview will do anything to bury the past. The closer she gets to the truth, the more perilous her quest becomes. Will she discover the real story or become the next victim of a hidden danger?

Come prepared for an evening of intriguing discussion and connection. We can't wait to see you there!

This book club's book is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin. We will meet at Cannonball at Belmont Park, Misson Beach.

From Goodreads:
In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.

This book club's book is The Wedding People by Alison Espach. We will meet for brunch at Breakfast Republic in Pacific Beach.

From Goodreads:
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

Hey! This meeting's book is of the murder mystery genre. It's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sultanto.

We will meet at Draft House Belmont Park.

From Goodreads:
Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing…

Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective?

Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet).

But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer.

Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth.