Club news:
- Club members volunteered to help make the video to announce the winners of the 2024 Illinois Teen Choice Award, called the Lincoln ward throughout the rest of the state
- filiming period 8 on Monday, March 18, in the LMC
- Plans are afoot to write a joint Book Club book! See Manha for your role in this group creative writing project!
- Ideas:
- each chapter represents a different genre
- main character is a magic librarian
- an anime character wanders through various genres
- a traveling Book Club enters different genres
- Ideas:
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Overheard at Book Club:
- "I read books like crazy!"
- "As you should!"
What we've been reading:
- Vampire, Hearts, and Other Dead Things by Margie Fuston
- Genre: supernatural
- Summary: Victoria and her dad have shared a love of the undead since the first vampire revealed his existence on live TV. Public fear soon drove the vampires back into hiding, yet Victoria and her father still dream about finding a vampire together. But when her dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer, it’s clear that’s not going to happen. Instead, Victoria vows to find a vampire herself—so that she can become one and then save her father. Armed with research, speculations, and desperation—and helped by her estranged best friend, Henry—Victoria travels to New Orleans in search of a miracle. There she meets Nicholas, a mysterious young man who might give her what she desires. But first, he needs Victoria to prove she loves life enough to live forever. She agrees to complete a series of challenges, from scarfing sugar-drenched beignets to singing with a jazz band, all to show she has what it takes to be immortal. But truly living while her father is dying feels like a betrayal. Victoria must figure out how to experience joy and grief at once, trusting all the while that Nicholas will hold up his end of the bargain…because the alternative is too impossible to imagine.
- The reader chose this from the Blind Date With a Book display, and it's working out well!
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
- Genre: mystery
- Summary: Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, two students at Niveus Private Academy, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects and struggle against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets.
- new book by sake author Where Sleeping Girls Lie
- My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
- Genre: horror
- Summary: Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges… a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body.
- My Eyes are Up Here by Laura Zimmerman
- Genre: realistic
- Summary: If Greer Walsh could only live inside her head, life would be easier. She'd be able to focus on excelling at math or negotiating peace talks between her best friend and . . . everyone else. She wouldn't spend any time worrying about being the only Kennedy High student whose breasts are bigger than her head. But you can't play volleyball inside your head. Or go to the pool. Or have confusingly date-like encounters with the charming new boy. You need an actual body for all of those things. Greer is entirely uncomfortable in hers. Hilarious and heartbreakingly honest, My Eyes Are Up Here is a story of awkwardness and ferocity, of imaginary butterflies and rock-solid friends. It's the story of a girl finding her way out of her oversized sweatshirt and back into the real world.
- Mrs. Caldicott also loved author's Just Do This One Thing For Me