We are creating a book club for the Society. We need suggestions on which should be our first book. I want everyone to make some suggestions on books we can choose. Please use the following guidelines.
1-- Not a book covered in school; your teachers will discuss these.
2-- Appropriate for school; if it was a movie it would have to be at most PG-13.
3-- Have literary merit; I enjoy fun, fast books as well, but let's keep this academic.
4-- Be under 400 pages; we are striving for a book a month, so longer than 400 will make it too much work.
Please think of books you have read, authors you like, or even authors you would like to experience and Mr. Kelly and myself will help the group choose.
If you are interested in being one of the lead readers, please post that as well.
Good Luck!
Mr. Kirchenko
9 comments:
In lit we're reading Pride and Prejudice right now.
I think a Jane Austen book would be pretty cool, and from what i've read of A Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde seems like an enjoyable author as well.
Blindness by Jose Saramago is such an awesome book. It was pretty recently made into a movie that I didn’t see but I can pretty definitively say that the book is better. Trying not to give too much away, it’s about an epidemic of blindness in this city and basically the savage downfall of civilization. It’s really well written and through provoking, though it is a decent size at 352 pages. It’s definitely worth a read even if it’s not picked to be one of the book club pieces, and trust me, once you start, you really won’t put it down.
One of my favorite books would have to be Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why by Laurence Gonzales. It's a little bit of a stretch cause its 300 pages and i don't know if some people will get into it. basically he goes into aspects of survival and how mentally it effects people. i can't really explain it unless you get it out.
so i just searched the web and found The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie. it's 240 pages. it was named one of the best teen books in 2007.
heres a summary i found:
Born with water on the brain, he suffers a rash of difficult and painful physical traumas daily. Bright and filled with ideas and artistic ability, Arnold Spirit the son of an alcoholic and a long-suffering mom --- decides to take a chance, get off the "rez" and attend a white private school in Rearden, Washington. To his surprise, he leaves the world of bullies and bullying behind him and encounters new friends who share some of his interests. His basketball team meets up with his old classmates on the court, and a battle of both bodies and cultures begins.
sounds alright
I would really like to read a jodi Picoult book. Those books are recent, but she wrote a really good one called Nineteen minutes that relates to high school life. I think it would be really interesting to hear what everyone thinks about that. I also agree with Diane and think it would be really cool to read a Jane Austen book.
I really like the idea of a Jane Austen book, or something by one of the Brontë sisters like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights.
I heard that The Shack by William P. Young is supposed to be really good. I haven't had time to read it yet, but it was on the #1 bestseller shelf at Barnes and Noble so I'm assuming a lot of people liked it.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer is a slighty longer book, about 360 pages, yet it has a lot of pages filled with one sentence, repeating numbers, or pictures, which makes it a decently quick read. I think it would be great to read since it's very unique, has a different writing style, and the story is very relatable to our own lives.
I think that the book should be mostly gender friendly, and for the most part should not be really "lovey" or have male or female themes. I also would like to read an Austen book, but i have read Wuthering Heights, and in addition to being over 400 pages, it is hard to read and more challenging. I think that a more modern book would be better suited.
I don't think we should focus on a literary work that has a gender bias...
I was just looking up books on the New York Times bestseller list, and I think "The Shack," by William P. Young, sounds really interesting. It may not have the literary/rhetorical devices that we constantly search for in every piece of literature, but the plot seems different. It's 256 pages, too, so it isn't too long.
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