We've had a great spring for reading in the PHS Book Club. The afternoon book club has read Sold by Patricia McCormick, One Day in the Life of Ivan Desinovick by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and God Don't like Ugly by Mary Monroe. The first two tell the grusome tale of being forced away from from your family and living under terrible conditions. Sold follows a young girl who is sold to a house of prostitution and how she gets out. It is a very moving and chilling story. The last book told the tale of a young girl who is sexually abused and overcomes many obstacles.
The lunchtime bookclub has read Looking For Alaska by John Green, life in a boarding school where death caughts up with life, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, a terrific trilogy about what is important to you, being yourself and fighting for what you believe in. We also read A Great & Terrible Beauty by Libby Bray. This story took us to Victorian time in a girls boarding school where things were not always what they seemed.
We were visited by the author Michael Bostick who wrote Mou-si, Life Lessons & Thoughts set to Poetry. He talked of his experiences growing up in Harlem and in Poughkeepsie where he graduated from PHS. He was great and really shared his personal stories with the group.
I am now reading Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer, the third book in the Twilight Series. It is really a thrilling story about a girl who falls in love with a vampire and her good friend who is a werewolf. This is a book I can't put down. Read it before her new book comes out, Breaking Dawn, this August.
Friday, June 20, 2008
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