Saturday, February 4, 2012

Room

The book that we are currently working on is Room by Emma Donoghue. The paperback can be purchased for about $11. We will have a discussion meeting scheduled shortly!
Here's a quick summary, followed by links to Amazon and Barnes&Noble:

"To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.
Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child."




Saturday, January 14, 2012

Meeting!!

Hey everyone!
The calendar is pretty packed for the next few weeks, but we managed to schedule a meeting for Tuesday, January 31. The good news is that this now gives you an extra TWO entire weeks to read the book! As usual, it'll be in Madame's room during Senior High Lunch. We will be discussing The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (which is really a wonderful book), so come armed and ready for verbal combat. Thanks, peeps! We can't wait to see you all!