{"id":39125,"date":"2025-07-31T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/?p=39125"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:06:08","slug":"book-club-some-laugh-out-loud-reads-and-a-tear-jerker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/blog\/2025\/07\/31\/book-club-some-laugh-out-loud-reads-and-a-tear-jerker\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK CLUB: Some laugh-out-loud reads (and a tear-jerker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-39126\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_1-253x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_1-253x400.jpg 253w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_1-265x420.jpg 265w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_1.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/>86-year-old Jinx Sullivan promised herself she\u2019d never eat fast food, go on a coach trip, and die without exacting revenge on the people who ruined her life. She\u2019s let herself down on the first two, but she\u2019ll be damned if she doesn\u2019t keep her word on the third. Along with a bunch of senion citizens and a recalcitrant teen, she\u2019s off on a trip to Florence, where she plans some long overdue vengeance on the worst best friend a woman ever had. The one who trained her in etiquette, cocktail-mixing, and silent killing. <strong>Bad Influence<\/strong> by CJ Wray (a pseudonym for Chris Manby) &#8230; laugh-out-loud funny rubs shoulders with moving tenderness, with a little bit of a thrill thrown if for good measure. <em>Orion<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-39127\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_2-253x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_2-253x400.jpg 253w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_2-266x420.jpg 266w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_2.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe Retirement Plan<\/strong> is about three wives who imagined retirement would be lying back in a hot tub, margaritas in hand; not recovering from the shock of their husbands losing all their savings in a reckless investment. Now collecting their husbands\u2019 life insurance looks more appealing than growing old with them. So they hire a hit man (as one does!). And that\u2019s when the trouble starts. Because they don\u2019t realise the three hubbies have some tricks up their sleeves, too. Sue Hinchenbergs\u2019 tale about three wives wanting a new life (with three husbands in their way) is hysterical &#8230; a lovely weekend read. <em>Sphere<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39139\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_34-400x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_34-400x290.jpg 400w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_34-1024x743.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_34-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_34-1536x1115.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_34-579x420.jpg 579w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_34-696x505.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_34-1068x775.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_34-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_34.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Two daughters. One is a therapist who\u2019s discovered her adored father has given his inheritance to a daughter no one knew. The other &#8230; well, she needs therapy. And she\u2019s quite happy to kneel at the Kleenex altar since she\u2019s just inherited five million dollars. The two girls know nothing about one another. At all! They are unknowingly thrown together for the first time. Crazy. Unethical. Perfect! <strong>Favourite Daughter<\/strong> is Morgan Dick\u2019s darkly funny, moving debut novel.<em> Penguin Viking<\/em> \u2022 A young screenwriter\u2019s chance of a lifetime &#8230; to write a big-budget movie set in New York. Problem &#8230; Elle\u2019s had writers block for months. A handsome tech billionaire who needs to fake a steady relationship during his company\u2019s precarious acquisition. Maybe his new neighbour Elle could help out. Problem &#8230; the two hooked up in a stairwell years earlier, and there\u2019s no love lost! On the plus side &#8230; meeting Parker again has led to nights of hate-fuelled writing for Elle. Also &#8230;. he needs a date, she needs to research classic dates spots in the city. This could work out well after all. Alex Aster\u2019s <strong>Summer In The City<\/strong> &#8230; it\u2019s obvious where it\u2019s going, but such fun getting there. <em>Bloomsbury<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-39131\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_6-260x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_6-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_6-273x420.jpg 273w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_6.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>The Story of a Heart<\/strong> is the tale of a boy, a girl, and the heart they share. The story of Keira\u2019s heart &#8230; one that maintained its rhythm despite the<br \/>\nnine-year-old suffering catastrophic injuries in a car accident, one which saw her brain and body shut down. But not her heart. And in an act of extraordinary generosity, her parents and siblings agreed that she she would have wanted to be an organ donor. It\u2019s the story of nine-year-old Max, who\u2019d been in hospital for nine months with a virus that was causing his heart to fail. And of how when his parents received the call they\u2019d been hoping for, they knew it came at the most awful cost to another family. It\u2019s a true story &#8230; non-fiction that reads as fiction &#8230; a heartbreaking, groundbreaking love story, beautifully writen by Dr Rachel Clarke. <em>Abacus Books<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-39130\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_5-260x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_5-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_5-273x420.jpg 273w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/BOOK-club-Some-laugh_5.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/>Julie Chan didn\u2019t mean to steal her identical twin\u2019s life. She meant to call 911. But when she unlocked Chloe\u2019s phone, she also unlocked the emails, gaining access to her estranged sister\u2019s sponsorship deals, followers, wealth &#8230; her whole life. So it\u2019s goodbye Julie who struggles to pay her rent. And hello Chloe who\u2019s going to breathe, detox, work out, and spend days filming unboxing videos. But someone knows even identical twins have their difference. Liann Zhang\u2019s <strong>Julie Chan is Dead<\/strong> is great fun from first page to last. <em>Raven Books<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>For these and more brilliant book club reads, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/\">exclusivebooks.co.za<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-39133\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/Raspberry-Liqueur-206x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/Raspberry-Liqueur-206x400.jpg 206w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/Raspberry-Liqueur-528x1024.jpg 528w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/Raspberry-Liqueur-768x1489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/Raspberry-Liqueur-792x1536.jpg 792w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/Raspberry-Liqueur-1056x2048.jpg 1056w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/Raspberry-Liqueur-696x1349.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/Raspberry-Liqueur-1068x2070.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/Raspberry-Liqueur.jpg 1075w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><br \/>\nQuite honestly, we\u2019re tired of winter. Let\u2019s hurry things along and sip something light and fruity. At book club this month we\u2019re making cocktails, flavoured with this <strong>TOMA Handcrafted Raspberry Liqueur<\/strong> &#8230; with its rich, natural raspberry flavour, its\u2019 a taste of spring that\u2019s just around the corner. It adds a delightful fruity note to ice cream too, creating a unique dessert experience. R349 from Yuppiechef<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>86-year-old Jinx Sullivan promised herself she\u2019d never eat fast food, go on a coach trip, and die without exacting revenge on the people who ruined her life. She\u2019s let herself down on the first two, but she\u2019ll be damned if she doesn\u2019t keep her word on the third. 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