~ January Session ~

Hi Everyone!

Our monthly meeting is coming up;  below you can find information regarding when it will happen. The location will be provided soon, so look out for an email coming your way. During this meeting we'll be discussing Gone by Michael Grant; and it's totally fine if you didn't finish the book. You can always drop by and discuss the book in general and things you like so far. Can't wait to see you all soon!

Date: Tuesday, January 27th, 2015

Time: 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: South Sitting Room (Hart House)


See you soon!

- Thurga

~ The Book of the Month for January ~

And the votes are in.............................!

Hello fellow Bookenders! All the votes are in and have been counted. The book we'll be reading for the month of January will be:

 

"In the blink of an eye.

Everyone disappears.

Gone.

Everyone except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not a single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Gone, too, are the phones, internet, and television. There is no way to get help.

Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents-unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers-that grow stronger by the day.

It''s a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen and war is imminent.

The first in a breathtaking saga about teens battling each other and their darkest selves, gone is a page-turning thriller that will make you look at the world in a whole new way."

 

 

That's right for this month we'll be reading Gone by Michael Grant! Definitely full of new beginnings. Thank you to all of you that got a chance to vote, can't wait to see all of you soon.

 

 

Happy Reading!

 

 

-Thurga 

December Book Discussion Session!

Hello Bookenders!

During this session we'll be discussing the book of December, IT by Stephen King. Below you will find information on when and where the meeting will take place. Can't wait to see all of you that could make it!

Date: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
Time: 5pm - 6pm
Location: Boardroom at Hart House

Can't wait to talk about the book, your holiday breaks and life. See you soon!

~ January Nominations ~

Nominations are in...............................!

First and foremost, thank you to those of you that sent in nominations; below are the book nominations for this month and the link to also vote!

1. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

 

"On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark''s accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition. In The Echo Maker, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our boldest and most entertaining novelists."

 

 

2. Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

 

 

"Christine wakes up every morning with an unfamiliar man. She looks in the mirror and sees an unfamiliar, middle-aged face. And every morning, the man she wakes up to must explain that he is Ben, he is her husband, and a terrible accident two decades earlier decimated her ability to form new memories.

But it''s the phone call from a Dr. Nash-a neurologist who claims to be working with Christine, without her husband''s knowledge-that directs her to her journal, hidden in the back of her closet. For the past few weeks, Christine has been recording her daily activities and rereading past entries, relearning the facts of her life as retold by the husband upon whom she has become completely dependent. As the entries accumulate, inconsistencies in Ben''s account jump off the page. What was life like before the accident? Do they have a child? And what exactly was the horrific accident that caused such a profound loss of memory?

The closer Christine gets to the truth, the more unbelievable it seems"

 

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3. Gone by Michael Grant

 

 

"In the blink of an eye.

Everyone disappears.

Gone.

Everyone except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not a single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Gone, too, are the phones, internet, and television. There is no way to get help.

Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents-unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers-that grow stronger by the day.

It''s a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen and war is imminent.

The first in a breathtaking saga about teens battling each other and their darkest selves, gone is a page-turning thriller that will make you look at the world in a whole new way."

 

 

4. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

 

 

"Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...

In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon—when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire''s destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives."

 

 

5. Looking for Alaska by John Green

 

 



"Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . ."

 

 

These are the nominations of the month! Don't forget to vote and see you all soon!

 

-Thurga

 

 

~ Vote Here ~













~ The Book of the Month for December! ~

Votes are in.....................

Hello fellow Bookenders! Votes are in and the book of the month has been decided.

Welcome to Derry, Maine…
"It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real….

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name."

 

 

Thank you to all of those who got a chance to vote. For the month of December we'll be reading IT by Stephan King! Definitely different for the holiday spirit but hope this break you get a chance to read a lot and everything you've been wanting to; as for now good luck on upcoming exams. Hope everyone has an amazing restful break which includes tons of reading! See you all early January and look out for information regarding our next meeting when schools commencing again. 


Happy Holidays and Happy Reading!

- Thurga

 

~ November - December Nominations! ~

Thank you to those of you who sent in nominations for the month of November. The Book chosen will be the book of this month, in conjunction with December. The nominations are listed below and don't forget to vote!

And the nominations are.................

1.) Sunset Park by Paul Auster

 

"A New York Times Bestseller

From the bestselling author of Invisible and The New York Trilogy comes a new novel set during the 2008 economic collapse. Sunset Park opens with twenty-eight-year-old Miles Heller trashing out foreclosed houses in Florida, the latest stop in his flight across the country. When Miles falls in love with Pilar Sanchez, he finds himself fleeing once again, going back to New York, where his family still lives, and into an abandoned house of young squatters in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Woven together from various points of view—that of Miles’s father, an independent book publisher trying to stay afloat, Miles’s mother, a celebrated actress preparing her return to the New York stage, and the various men and women who live in the house."

2.) White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

 

"The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society."

 

 

3.) Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

 

 



"Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state''s best witness, but she can''t remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be."


4.) We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

"That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child''s character is self-evident. But such generalizations provide cold comfort when it''s your own son who''s just opened fire on his fellow students and whose class photograph--with its unseemly grin--is blown up on the national news. The question of who''s to blame for teenage atrocity tortures our narrator, Eva Khatchadourian. Two years ago, her son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin''s upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault? We Need to Talk About Kevin offers no pat explanations for why so many white, well-to-do adolescents--whether in Pearl, Paducah, Springfield, or Littleton--have gone nihilistically off the rails while growing up in suburban comfort. Instead, Lionel Shriver tells a compelling, absorbing, and resonant story while framing these horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy--the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose."


5.) IT by Stephen King


"Welcome to Derry, Maine…It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real….
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name. "


6.) A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray

 

"A thousand lives.

A thousand possibilities.
One fate.
Marguerite Caine grew up surrounded by cutting-edge scientific theories, thanks to her brilliant physicist parents. Yet nothing is more astounding than her mother''s latest invention-a device called the Firebird, which allows people to leap into alternate dimensions. When Marguerite''s father is murdered, all the evidence points to one person-Paul, her parents'' enigmatic star student. Before the law can touch him, Paul escapes into another dimension, having committed what seems like the perfect crime. But he didn''t count on Marguerite. She doesn''t know if she can kill a man, but she''s going to find out. With the help of another physics student, Theo, Marguerite chases Paul through various dimensions. In each new world Marguerite leaps to, she meets another version of Paul that has her doubting his guilt and questioning her heart. Is she doomed to repeat the same betrayal? As Marguerite races through these wildly different lives-a grand duchess in a Tsarist Russia, a club-hopping orphan in a futuristic London, a refugee from worldwide flooding on a station in the heart of the ocean-she is swept into an epic love affair as dangerous as it is irresistible"

** All descriptions taken from Chapters/Indigo and book covers are from Google.

~ Vote Here! ~

- Thurga

~ October Meeting ~

The end of the month is soon approaching and Halloween is just around the corner, I hope everyone has picked out their costumes!

In the spirit of Halloween our theme for the month was Horror/Mystery and "Bluebeard" By Kurt Vonnegut was chosen. And now that the end of the month is almost here we will be gathering together for our first meeting to chat about the book, school and life!!!!!

We will be meeting ~~~~~

When : Wednesday October 29th, 2014
At : 5pm - 6pm
Where : Hart House Committees Room

Can't wait to see all of you then! As for now Happy Reading!

 - Thurga Ganeshamoorthy