Senior Shout Out!

• Abby Golde
• Esther Olson
• Nica Pomogaeva
• Julieta Rodarte

Also shout out to our Book Club members whose beautiful words and images are printed in the 2020 Whispers of Immortality literary magazine:

• Bethany
• Allison
• Libby
• Rhiannon
• Julieta

"So how has your week been going?"

• Esther: "I haven't done anything! You know senioritis is bad when you don't even have to go to school!"
• "It's been a crazy week with AP exams!"
• "Do you consider webcomics as reading?" -- the group gave an emphatic yes!

If you could make an LMC display case, what books or theme would you feature?

• Sofia: fantasy or science fiction, anything to escape reality
• Yona: books that have a mix of futuristic and historical, like Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
  • Any book with a map!
  • Maybe make that a game: can you match the book title from seeing the map/
• Kenzie: animals, rainforest
• Silvia: time travel, as long as the book has "good stakes," and is not "too dramatic"
• Yona: best-rated books, books that are checked out most frequently
• Emily: books that Book Club members talk about each week, "in order for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors to notice books that will grab their attention and not let go"

What book would you want to be made into a movie, and as which book character would you want to star?

• Ashleigh: I'd be Crash from The Lunar Chronicles because I have long hair.
• Yona: I'd be Lucy from The Chronicles of Narnia.
• Mrs. Stevens: I'd be one of the sisters from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; not Jo, maybe Meg.
  • Or Pippi Longstocking
• Emily: make Renegades as a movie, either animated or live action
• Sofia: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• Silvia: Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E.K. Johnson, as a great realistic movie, especially the cheerleading scenes

Which book character would you want to be quarantined with, or NOT quarantined with?

• Mrs. Herbrand: NOT the guy from The Shining by Stephen King
• Emily: Cress from The Lunar Chronicles, "She was quarantined in a satellite for seven years, so she knows how to do it all!"
• Mrs. Stevens: any funny person
• Ms. Tolva: someone with witty and clever conversation, like Simon from Simon and the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• Yona: Aldus Dumbledore from Harry Potter series; "He is so wise, and I'd always feel safe in his presence;" plus he has a magic wand!
• Julieta: Jo from These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
• Group agreed that The Thunderhead would be an excellent quarantine partner. "You could ask all sorts of questions!"
  •  Although we agreed that if the Thunderhead were in charge, we wouldn't have a global pandemic in the first place.

What have you been reading this week?

• The Falling Kingdoms series by Morgan Rhoades and Michelle Rowen
  • Summary: In the three kingdoms of Mytica, magic has long been forgotten. And while hard-won peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest now simmers below the surface.As the rulers of each kingdom grapple for power, the lives of their subjects are brutally transformed... and four key players, royals and rebels alike, find their fates forever intertwined. Cleo, Jonas, Lucia, and Magnus are caught in a dizzying world of treacherous betrayals, shocking murders, secret alliances, and even unforeseen love. The only outcome that's certain is that kingdoms will fall. Who will emerge triumphant when all they know has collapsed? It's the eve of war.... Choose your side.
  • genre: fantasy
• Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
  • Summary: When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time to kill--Mickey finds peaceful acceptance, and people with whom words come easily, even if it is just the pills loosening her tongue. But as the pressure to be Mickey Catalan heightens, her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control.
  • genre: sports
  • nominated for 2021 Illinois Teen Choice Award
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Summary: In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
    genre: classic
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

We will miss you! Keep reading this summer!