I wrote a grant last summer to buy books for our student book club. The following are the first three:
- The Iron Trial by popular authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare: the first in a series, this novel's protagonist is a male. Have you noticed that so many of the heroes are actually heroines? Currently, I only have one copy of the next in the series The Copper Gauntlet...need more, as they all want to read the next one as soon as they finish the first. Please read more here on my book review blog about this series.
- The Red Queen by 24-year-old Victoria Aveyard (once you begin reading, you will understand why I included her age...such a good writer): Main character Mare is both a Silver and a Red...and finds herself betrothed to one of the two Princes. Lots of twists and turns (literally...as the Queen has the power to take over your mind and inflict great pain). This one is the first of three...and plans are underway to take The Red Queen to the big screen. Yes, please read before watching! A must!
- The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons: A stand-alone. These seem more uncommon nowadays, don't they? This novel, too, takes the reader to a dystopic society where women are valued primarily as breeders, which is main character Aya's future as she has been captured and will soon be auctioned...or will she?
Currently, as we speak, the faculty book read for January is being discussed. Unless minds and opinions change, we will be reading The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens or Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn (this one was recommend by author Gretchen Rubin as one of her three monthly recommendations for January)...or both over the next two months.
For our local book store's book club (now celebrating its 15th year!), we are reading Turn Away Thy Son by Arkansan Elizabeth Jacoway, who wrote about the Little Rock Central Nine.
Then for personal, spiritual growth, I am reading Beth Moore's new book Audacious. So very good...and so very timely for me. I have also begun Alistair Begg's Pathway to Freedom for a Sunday evening study and am working through Beth Moore's Jesus The One and Only for our Making Choices Bible Study Group.
Please share...
- What are you reading good?
- Why are you reading this book(s)?
- Would you recommend this book to us? Why or why not?
Happy reading!
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This post previously published at Treasure Chest of Thoughts.
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This post previously published at Treasure Chest of Thoughts.
All three of the novel mentioned in the student book club are great reads. I found them enthralling reads founded with young adults/teens in mind. Personally over the break I read Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. This novel really touched me through the parallel plot lines and the everlasting impression the characters leave on each other and the reader. I would recommend anyone looking for an encouraging story in humanity to read it!
ReplyDeleteOrphan Train was sooooo good...a part of our history about which I (shamefully ) knew little.
DeleteIs this a novel you think the students would like to read?
All of these books sound like they would be excellent. I am currently reading Your Next Breath by Iris Johansen. It is a part of a series featuring the character Catherine Ling and Eve Duncan, but can be enjoyed by itself. Catherine is a CIA agent whose friends are being murdered by a man she brought to justice. She has to find him and stop him before he can finish his list of targets that spirals closer to Catherine with each kill putting her and her son in danger.
ReplyDeleteThe other book I want to highlight is by an author who is not as well known. Graciela Limon's novel Song of the Hummingbird is a great read. The more I read this book; the more involved in the story I became. It is the story of Huitzitzilin, whose name means hummingbird in the Aztec or Nahual language. She is a young noble woman living in Tenochtitlan when Cortes lands in what is now Mexico. She is a witness to the destruction and change that the Europeans bring to her people and to the struggles to escape once her countrymen realize that Cortes is not a god. Her story is recounted to a priest as she approaches the end of her life causing him to question his countries destruction of a culture and his faith. Song of the Hummingbird follows a young woman from princess to slave to concubine as she fights to survive in a tale told by the conquere.
Okay...just have to ask...does Song of the Hummingbird have a good ending?!
DeleteConfession time...I usually at some point skip to the end (I know a horrible habit), but...but....if this ends on a sad note...can I handle it?!
The Red Queen looks absolutely awesome!!! I'd love to read that one! What would be the ideal age group for that book?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mr. Turner...any teen up through my age group!
DeleteAND this author is just a good writer...again makes me long for a creative writing class!
It is her final confessiona as an old woman, so in a way no but also yes because she finds peace in the end.
DeleteI would say that any teen group would enjoy it!
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