LHS Book Club

Possible Book Choices for Next Book Club Read

Hi Book Club Members!   You need to start thinking about your next title to read.  We need to look at fundraising to purchase books in the future, but for now, can you take a few minutes to look at some of the offerings from the Longmont Public Library, Books in a Bag, and post a comment about your top choices:  http://www.ci.longmont.co.us/library/adult/book_bag.htm#book_selection

May I make a few suggestions: 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: a Novel
by Mark Haddon: Narrated by a 15-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. 

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls’s memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. Her irresponsible romantic of a father was an inventor of outlandishly useless devices, and her mother, an artist, was his abettor.
 

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
A young Indian man doing research at MIT, and his wife, who becomes pregnant with a son. As years go by, their son, unlike his parents, becomes thoroughly westernized and even rebellious, with a series of non-Indian girlfriends–none of whom stick.   Also available on DVD.

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Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Remember that we’ll meet at lunch on October 23rd to talk about the book you’ve chosen to read.  You need to bring the book with you and something to eat and drink; I’ll provide dessert.  If you’re reading DragonLance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, now is the time and here is the place to make your comments.  Below are a few discussion questions to start you off, but you’re free to direct your own discussion with questions and thoughts of your own.

Take a look at the Dragonlance movie site:  http://www.dragonlance-movie.com/

Discussion Questions:   Has anyone seen the movie?  How does it compare to the book?  If you’ve seen the movie and read part of the book, which did you like the best? 

Was Raistlin evil?
Was Raistlin a woman or a man?
Did Raistlin have a daughter?
Did Raist love Crysania?
What is the deal with Raist’s staff?

If you’re having any trouble posting a comment, please stop by the library and we can post a comment together.

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Ella Minnow Pea Readers***

Remember that we’ll meet at lunch on October 23rd to talk about the book you’ve chosen to read.  You need to bring the book with you and something to eat and drink; I’ll provide dessert.  If you’re reading Ella Minnow Pea, now is the time and here is the place to make your comments.  Below are a few discussion questions to start you off, but you’re free to direct your own discussion with questions and thoughts of your own.

Discussion Questions:   In what ways is Ella Minnow Pea unconventional? How is it more like a fable than a novel? What characteristics does it share with other fables? Does it offer a clear moral?

Why has Mark Dunn chosen to tell this story through letters rather than a more straightforward narrative?  What ironies are involved in writing letters about the disappearance of the letters of the alphabet?

If you’re having any trouble posting a comment, please stop by the library and we can post a comment together.
 

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Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week is September 29-October 5, 2007

Top 10 Banned Classics (About.com):
http://classiclit.about.com/od/ladychatterleyslover/tp/aatp-ban.htm

Banned Books Powerpoint: Banned Books

Download Video: Posted by OIFTube at TeacherTube.com.

ALA Banned Books 2007 website:
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm

Once a book is banned, can it be unbanned?  Unbanned Book is Unpulled from High School 

Banned Books Blog - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Controversy surrounding Huck Finn

Finn by John Clinch – “Embarking from a scene in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Clinch has written a debut novel of harrowing intensity.”

My Jim by Nancy Rawles – “ In her spare, moving retelling of the story of escaped slave Jim from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Rawles shifts the focus to Jim’s wife, Sadie, whose unspeakable losses set the tone for Jim’s flight.”

Infoplease Banned Books Under Fire:
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bannedbookslist.html?mail-01-22

Library Thing Banned Books Site used for discussion:
http://www.librarything.com/groups/bannedandchallenged

ACLU Ban this Book Booklist!
http://www.aclu.org/freedomwire/books/booklist.htm

ILA (Illimois Library Assoc.) Banned Books PDF:
http://www.ila.org/pdf/2007banned.pdf

This bibliography represents books challenged, restricted, removed, or banned in 2006-2007 as reported in the Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom from May 2006 through May 2007.

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Hello LHS Book Club Members!

Welcome to Edublogs.org and welcome to the LHS Book Club Blog. This is the place where book club members can post and respond to the group about the books that you’re reading. The books that you’ve chosen to read for our upcoming October 23, 2007 book club meeting in the library, are ordered and should be ready for pickup on 9/21/2007 or 9/24/2007. It appears that 8 people are reading Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Chronicles #1), by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, and 7 people are reading Ella Minnow Pea: a novel in letters, by Mark Dunn.

Start reading and when you have a chance post your thoughts. Please title your post with the title of the book you’re reading, since we have 2 titles going this month. Don’t know how to blog, it’s easy, come by the library and I’ll give you a lesson.

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