March Book Club Update: The Rook

**So flashing forward to the present again**

I mentioned that my college friends and I were starting a book club. Well the first book I think was somewhat of a success. I didn't get nearly close to finishing the book (William has had some sleep regression since mid-January and my usual reading time before bed has well...turned into my bedtime!). I joined the group on Sunday anyway because it's rare that so many of us can get together and I needed some adult time with my friends...away from the baby!

It was great! I felt bad because they didn't want to discuss too much of the book details in case I wanted to finish it, but they seemed ok with that. We discussed it a little though. Cam didn't like the book (not her cup of tea). Anh, Yelena, and Amber liked it and plan to read the next in the series when it's out in July. I hope to finish the book still, but want to make sure to finish the next book so I might move on to that and come back to the Rook. I'll post my review when I do finish it.

So Anh hosted the book club gathering this month and was awesome at coming up with a Rook-themed brunch menu. She made Myfawny Comforting Blueberry Pancakes, Shantay Iron-Dipped Chocolate Muffins and Flesh Cube Frittatas. She was going to make Grafter Deformed Belgian Waffles too but ran out of time. She has inspired us for the future to keep this up. 

We decided our next book will Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (AKA J.K. Rowling). We all love Harry Potter and thought we'd read a different book by J.K. Rowling. Amber has already read the book so she volunteered to host the May book club at her place. I already can't wait! Here's the GoodReads description of the book:

A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.

Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.

You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.