This book better be good, because I’ve set my expectations high. I decided upon The Book Thief by Markus Zusak for the same reasons it made the final cut earlier in the month. The book has five years of critical and popular acclaim, is easy to find in stores and libraries (thanks to the aforementioned acclaim), and is a young adult novel with potential to sway critics of the genre thanks to its mature storyline. I took a gamble with this pick since a book this popular means many may have already read it, but there were enough people that (1) haven’t read the book or (2) loved it so much they were willing to read it again (!!!) that I feel good about including it on the club’s reading list.
I forgot to mention this was the pick for March, but my library has 8 copies at one branch alone. I’m confident this book will be easier to find than Rules of Civility.If not, I’m sorry. Total oversight on my part in failing to announce March’s pick!
Okay, let’s get started! SO excited.
p.s. Tomorrow we discuss Rules of Civility!
I am SO glad that it’s the same one you suggested you might be picking (in an earlier post) because I got my name on the waiting list that day and I’m down to #6 now. So I might actually get to read it before discussion!
Rules of Civility – I’m still waiting – and more patiently now since the discussion has already started and I’ll just have to sit that one out.
Good choice. I’ve seen this in lots of charity and second hand book shops now. Worth checking out.
Woo hoo! Looking forward to re-reading this one! Still waiting for Rules of Civility to come in for me at the library, so I’m avoiding the comments over there for the time being.
Fun! Maybe because I don’t have kids, so I don’t think I’ve heard of this book, either. Adding to Kindle que now, but will try to read it closer to the end of the month so it’s ‘fresh’.
Just got reminded of a book I used to read obsessively when I was a kid, that might be fun to tackle as a read-aloud with your boys. Watership Down by Richard Adams. It’s about a group of rabbits that have to leave their holes because one of them has a vision of it being destroyed. They have a lot of adventures, and not of the trite kind. The descriptor doesn’t sound like it would be good, but it was.
I loooooooove Watership Down! I read it in the 8th grade and devoured it!