Tuesday 4 November 2014

Page Turners- Book Choice #2 THIS DARK ENDEAVOUR BY KENNETH OPPEL!

Well, after some discussion and a vote, our next read will be This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel. It sounds very different from our first book choice, and we are all excited to get started! Please read the description below, and consider joining our club! New members are always welcome!

Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein and inseparable until Konrad falls gravely ill. In the forbidden Dark Library, Victor finds an ancient formula, and seeks an alchemist to recreate the Elixir of Life. With friends Elizabeth and Henry, he scales highest trees in the Strumwald, dives deepest lake caves, and each sacrifices a body part.(goodreads).

PAGE TURNERS!

This year we decided to start a book club at Sheldon-Williams. We are called the Page Turners and we meet once every 3 wks to discuss our latest book, have treats, and enjoy each others company. We plan to take a few trips to places like Chapters, and Comic Readers, and we also plan to attend a few movies based on the books we read. In addition, we would like to do a few projects based on our book choices such as posters and book trailers. Our first book this year was Anatomy of a Misfit by Andrea Portes. We all loved it, and I think most of us cried at the end. Talk to anyone in the club about what a great book this is!!
 Outside, Anika Dragomir is all lip gloss and blond hair—the third most popular girl in school. Inside, she’s a freak: a mix of dark thoughts, diabolical plots, and, if local chatter is to be believed, vampire DNA (after all, her father is Romanian). But she keeps it under wraps to maintain her social position. One step out of line and Becky Vilhauer, first most popular girl in school, will make her life hell. So when former loner Logan McDonough shows up one September hotter, smarter, and more mysterious than ever, Anika knows she can’t get involved. It would be insane to throw away her social safety for a nerd. So what if that nerd is now a black-leather-jacket-wearing dreamboat, and his loner status is clearly the result of his troubled home life? Who cares if the right girl could help him with all that, maybe even save him from it? Who needs him when Jared Kline, the bad boy every girl dreams of, is asking her on dates? Who?

Anatomy of a Misfit is Mean Girls meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Anika’s hilariously deadpan delivery will appeal to readers for its honesty and depth. The so-sad-it’s-funny high school setting will pull readers in, but when the story’s dark foreboding gradually takes over, the devastating penultimate tragedy hits like a punch to the gut. Readers will ride the highs and lows alongside funny, flawed Anika — from laughter to tears, and everything in between.
(goodreads).

BOOK OF THE MONTH- NOVEMBER- THE BOOK THIEF BY MARKUS ZUSAK

It's just a small story really, about, among other things, a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery.

Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist: books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids - as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.

This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul. (goodreads).

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