Club news:
- LMC will be closed May 1-12 and May 17-19 for AP testing. Make sure to stock up your reading choices before the doors close!
- Final club meeting dates and locations:
- Fri Apr 28 in LMC classroom
- Fri May 5 in PAWS room 2402
- Fri May 12 in PAWS room 2402
- last meeting! Fri May 19 in cafeteria courtyard
What we've been reading:
- Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli
- Genre: Relationships, but a lot just with friendships, too
- Summary: Contrary to popular belief, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. Carpooling to and from theater rehearsals? Environmentally sound and efficient. Consulting each other on every single life decision? Basic good judgment. Pining for the same guys from afar? Shared crushes are more fun anyway. But when Kate and Andy’s latest long-distance crush shows up at their school, everything goes off script. Matt Olsson is talented and sweet, and Kate likes him. She really likes him. The only problem? So does Anderson. Turns out, communal crushes aren’t so fun when real feelings are involved. This one might even bring the curtains down on Kate and Anderson’s friendship.
- Nominated for 2024 Illinois Teen Choice Award
- Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
- Genre: Fantasy
- Summary: Eight years have passed since the young Princess Bitterblue, and her country, were saved from the vicious King Leck. Now Bitterblue is the queen of Monsea, and her land is at peace. But the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities, lives on. Her advisers, who have run the country on her behalf since Leck's death, believe in a forward-thinking plan: to pardon all of those who committed terrible acts during Leck's reign; and to forget every dark event that ever happened. Monsea's past has become shrouded in mystery, and it's only when Bitterblue begins sneaking out of her castle - curious, disguised and alone - to walk the streets of her own city, that she begins to realise the truth. Her kingdom has been under the thirty-five-year long spell of a madman, and now their only chance to move forward is to revisit the past.
- Sequel to Graceling
- The Kiss of Deception by Mary Pearson
- Genre: fantasy
- Summary: In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia’s life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight—but she doesn’t—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom—to a prince she has never met. On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—even as she finds herself falling in love.
- Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
- Genre: Mystery
- Summary: After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows... Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed. With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker's unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling.
- Mrs. Herbrand pointed out the similaries with Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
- Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
- Genre: play
- Summary: Presents the script of the 1993 play which moves back and forth between 1809 and 1989, exploring the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex.
- What book did you read that didn't live up to its hype?
- His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman
- When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
- Mrs. Stevens recommended the books that inspired Netflix "The Last Kindgom"