At the August meeting of the book club I've been with the longest, we celebrated a momentous event: all eleven of the current members were there! We were so excited about this never-before-seen occurance that my brother-in-law took our picture!
The book club of my church women's group discussed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in August. It was a good pick because it got several people to come who haven't participated before, just because they love Harry. I'm hoping they'll be back! The pick for September is Twilight, which none of the regulars (except me) have read yet. I think they'll like it though! (By the way, Jelly Bean went with me to the August meeting, even though she's two years too young for the women's group, because she's a Harry fan - and she wants to come in September too, because she's a huge fan of Twilight.) The tentative picks for October and November are The Locket and The Memory Keeper's Daughter, respectively, both of which I have already read - which is nice for me because I can participate in the discussions yet still keep reading other titles from my various and sundry to-be-read lists!
The mother-daughter book club that Sugar Plum and I attend at our local library branch - Great Reads for Girls - will be resuming in September, after taking the summer off. For that first meeting we are supposed to read about "amazing girls" in our "choice of journals, biographies, fiction or even in fairy-tales." When Sugar Plum looked at the display of possible picks, she just kept on saying, "I've already read that." Do you have any suggestions of something that would fit the bill?
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Not sure how old she is, but this post has age recommendations for books about amazing girls, and it might help.
ReplyDeleteWhich one is you in the book group photo?
There's an older(about ten years ago) book called Zlata's Diary. It was written by a girl in wartime Sarajevo. Quiite eye opening read. There's also Island of the Blue Dolphins where a young Native girl survives alone on an island. I like Dewey's list - especially Ella Enchanted (book is better than the movie)! Good luck.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Island of the Blue Dolphins. Or Maximum Ride by James Patterson.
ReplyDeleteI second Maximum Ride - my 10-year-old Harry Potter-obsessed daughter says she likes it better than HP.
ReplyDeleteso where are you in the photo??? :)
ReplyDeletei'd forgotten about the list in Packaging Girlhood; thanks for the reminder, dewey! i know Sugar Plum has read Ella Enchanted (and i have too). i don't know about Island of the Blue Dolphins, which was a childhood favorite of mine, or Zlata's Diary. i'm pretty sure she hasn't read Maximum Ride. thanks for the suggestions!
ReplyDeletebtw she's 11 1/2 - but reads on a high school/college level (although i have veto rights about "appropriateness").
as far as the photo goes ... well, that's a mystery, i guess. :o)
Have you read the other books in the Twilight sersis yet? I just finihed Ecipse and loved it. Has your duaghter read any Shannon Hale books hers are really good.
ReplyDeletekat: we (both of my daughters and i) have all read all three of the Twilight books - and loved them! i'm glad you've enjoyed them too! Sugar Plum has read many, if not all, of Shannon Hale's books, but I haven't (yet) - but in the mother-daughter book club, we'll be reading Princess Academy next May.
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