Welcome Readers and Friends! What we talked about: Fri Aug 16
Welcome Readers and Friends! What we talked about: Fri Aug 16
Posted August 19, 2019
Welcome readers and friends! Welcome back!
With great fondness, we remember 2-year Book Club member Sage Cue, who died this summer from a long illness. Sage impressed us with her breadth of reading interests (on her first day of Book Club, she told us she liked to read poetry -- in French!) and her unflagging enthusiasm for good books. Sage will be missed!
Many thanks to members Eliana and Ashley for working this summer to help shelve fiction books in their new bookcases.
Welcome to new members Kush, Jenna, Adrielle, and Tim!
We "toured" new genre sections. Genres are noted as "sublocation" in the LMC catalog and are eached marked with a colored sticker.
Heard at Book Club:
"And then they took my book and threw it across the lunchroom, and I yelled, 'Wait, I'll lose my page!' "
Summary: In a world ravaged by mutation, a teenage girl must travel into the forbidden Savage Zone to recover lost artifacts or her father’s life is forfeit.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of the yellow feverepidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.
Summary: I’m good at two things: finding treasure and killing demons. Lying low is a close third—but not because I want to be good at hiding. I have to be. I’m a FireSoul, one of the unlucky few to inherit a piece of the dragon’s soul.
Summary: On an island where a set of triplets are born in every generation, three sisters, all equal heirs to the crown and possessor of magic, must now fight for the title in a game of life or death.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray travels to England in search of her brother only to be abducted by the Dark Sisters, residents of London's Downworld, home to the city's supernatural folk, and she becomes the object of much attention--both good and bad--when it is discovered she has the power to transform at will into another person.
Summary: Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed... again. It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again.
Summary: Argues for snap decisions, discussing the value of training one's mind and senses to focus on a few relevant details when making decisions in daily life, and also examines the dangers of jumping to conclusions, describing situations in which one is "mind-blind."
Summary: A teenaged Nigerian girl and her older brother struggle to cope with life in their tense, stifling household--caused by their father's demands for perfection--after getting a taste of freedom during a visit to their aunt's home.
Genre: realistic
Ms. Tolva shared about her "literary pilgraimage" this summer to Virginia. Her summer trips are focused on books she loves.
Summary: On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Among them is the most mysterious of all, Phantom, a rarely seen mare that eludes all efforts to capture her--that is, until a young boy and girl lay eyes on her and determine that they can't live without her.
Summary:Esau have I hated . . . Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise's friends, their parents' love, her dreams for the future.
