cherry pie

uhh sorry that didn't really make any sense... when do we need to finish the book by would have been more straight forward... sorry :)

apple pie (:

mrs. mac.. do you suppose there might be a time when the meeting is so we have an idea of when the reading of the book is? thanksss

Hi everybody,
Let's get this blog moving. Emily managed to get in, and Dylan Marshall has left several comments about postings. At the last book club meeting we decided to try to continue sharing ideas about our reading through the summer. A book I suggested you all might like to read is Heart On My Sleeve, by Ellen Wittlinger. It will be considered the June selection, but we won't necessarily meet to discuss it. Write in to the blog about it when you have finished. I will come up with some suggestions to post in June or July. You can read my suggestions and talk about them, or talk about any titles you find interesting during your summer reading. If people are interested, we could possibly meet once over the summer to share ideas for next year. Maybe at Panera, or some place like that. Just let me know your thoughts about it!

mangoes.

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.

I have wanted to read a book by Julia Alvarez for a long time now. I am so glad that I finally have. I just loved her style. I thought that In The Time of the Butterflies was a great book. I felt as though I really knew the sisters and feared for their lives. I found myself wanting to tell them to turn back when they went off for that last time. I wanted someone to help them when they were overtaken by the thugs who would kill them. Their voices came through so loud and clear in her writing. I hope that the rest of you enjoyed the book as well. I know it has a somewhat difficult narrative structure, and hopefully you were willing to persevere and get through it. Let me know what you thought about the book.