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woohoo it worked! what's our next book?

Last Book Club of the Year: What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones

I am looking forward to our last Book Club meeting of the year. What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones, is a great book, and I know that you have all enjoyed it, because many of you have stopped in to the library to tell me so. I hope that I will see you at the meeting tomorrow. I think that what I like best about the book is the format. I really like the verse novels. I think it is so unique that a writer can convey a whole story, with plot, characters, theme, etc. with such a small number of words. When I taught English I would always explain how I thought poetry was the coolest form of literature, because so much thought and emotion was conveyed in so few words, while novelists use so many to convey their stories. Obviously, the verse novel is, to use the vernacular, "way cool."

Next book?

Greetings!

I suppose it is too late in the year to get another book started? Maybe you could post some interesting choices for summer reading?

I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and then found out it won the Pulitzer. I plan to read it again. It's a book that haunts you with its images. A little boy and his father try to survive in a world that's been destroyed by nuclear holocaust. And despite all the horrors of a place without a soul, there is goodness here.

Amazing.