The Meeting's Aftermath

The Next Meeting will be held on Monday, December 14th.
-This will be our Holiday Meeting. All members are encouraged to bring in holiday reads, such as: poems, book excerpts, and/or short stories. Holiday snacks can be expected. Hope to see everyone there.

The official book club book is Looking For Alaska by John Green.
-Plans have been made to email the author and see if the club can get a responce of some sorts. Leave suggestions for what should be put into the email: in comments, on the facebook group, email any of the officers in the club, or find Mrs. Konzelmann in the PV Library.

Any suggestions for future meetings or activities can be put in the comments or onto the facebook group.

DFTBA,
~Monica

Meeting

We're having a meeting tomorrow, November 23 after school in the library to announce the book club book and discuss ideas. Any questions message me on facebook.

~Monica

Next Book Club Book and Such.

The next book club book is currently Looking for Alaska by John Green. When Ms. Konzelmann returns we'll meet to discuss details and the date of the book discussion. Please and thank you. Enjoy the long weekend everyone. =]

First Meeting of the New Year

Book Club will meet on Monday, September 21st afterschool in the library. Everyone is welcome to come.

Welcome back everyone:

Summer is now officially over and the school year has begun again.

Here are some dates to consider when planning the next meetings:

Banned Books Week 2009 September 26th to October 3rd

Teen Read Week 2009- October 18th to October 24th

-More updates coming soon.

The Lovely Bones Discussed:

Much of the discussion focused on George Harvey and his mindset throughout the novel.
-Sam described him as being "unfeeling and dead inside."
-We all agreed that Harvey enjoyed playing a game with all his victims.
-He tried to stop it, but he couldn't.
-He had no remorse.
-His bad childhood was just used as an excuse for what he did.
-No one was satisfied with the way Harvey died.
We all talked about what we'd want to be in our own Heaven.
Other aspects of the story mentioned:
-We were all annoyed with the mother's way of dealing with her grief.
-We saw that Ruth and Ray had a very big connection with each other.
-The author continues a theme of death throughout her novels.
-The first fifty or so pages were very disturbing.

The next book is "Life as We Knew It" by Susan Beth Pfeffer.

Next Meeting(s)

Many subjects were discussed during the meeting on March 3rd. The movie Slumdog Millionaire was recommended to members of the club. The next two meeting dates were also planned out.

St. Pattys Get-Together: March 17th.

The Lovely Bones Discussion: March 31st.


~Hope to see you there,
Monica

Important Message, please read below!!!!

There will be a PVTRAC - Reading Advisory Club Meeting
Tuesday, March 3rd at 2:40 in the Library
All members must attend.

~Monica

Postponed

The Book Discussion for The Lovely Bones has been postponed. Stay tuned for the new date.

-If we could all try to get one new member each, then the club would able to grow in membership. It's just something to think about.




~Monica

Next Meeting

The next Book Club book is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. We are meeting after school on February 10th 2009. It is a Tuesday. As you can see below, Miss Mary Louise cannot make it, since she has jury-duty.

-A facebook group has been created for the Book Club. Either find Kelly, Krista, or me on facebook, and then we'll add you to the group. It is a secret group, so it will not be shown in any facebook group searches.

Hi everybody,
I've got jury duty the day of the next book discussion )-:
Sorry I won't be able to be there. I'll post to the blog after Monica posts your discussion. Hope everyone is well.