Fri Oct 4: a special edition of "Overheard at Book Club"
Fri Oct 4: a special edition of "Overheard at Book Club"
Posted October 4, 2019
Overheard at Book Club:
"In Germany, we call these Berliner, but they are only the large size. I love these small ones!" - referring to jelly-filled Munchkins (thanks for the treat, Mrs. Stevens!)
"This is Rhiannon" -- student introducing the friend she convinced to come to Book Club
"What are shakras?" -- student asking for clarification about a story element in the book a Book Club member is writing
"My friend is dating a tree" -- another reference from the student-penned book
"She dies" -- a student blurts out, followed by a mortified look that he might have given away a crucial part of a book
"Leave now!" -- Book Club advisor (jokingly?) tells the above student
"You can't kill off a hated character. You can only kill off a beloved character" -- student giving advice to authors everywhere
"Yeah, just ask Veronica Roth!" -- perhaps referring to the fate of a main character of Divergent
"Write on!" -- (with raised fist) encouragement from Book Club members to their aspiring author peers
"It's like I'm drafting my fantasy football team" - Ms. Tolva about submitting nominations for the 2021 Illinois Teen Choice Award book list
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. But in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that's like asking for the moon.
Summary: In 1963, at a church bingo Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray fell in love, but because of pressure from their families they had to break up, only to reunite nearly fifty years later at a church bingo.
Summary:Isabelle should be blissfully happy – she’s about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn’t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince’s heart. She’s the ugly stepsister who’s cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella’s shoe ... which is now filling with blood.
Summary: The fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph—a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.
genre: non-fiction
Books (other than Scythe and Thunderhead) by Neal Shusterman
Summary:Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.
Summary: Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
Summary: A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
