April's Meeting - Our Last One!

We had our last meeting this week, thank you to everyone who was able to attend!  I had a great time meeting all of you, sharing books together, and trying a lot of interesting crafts.

The book club will likely return in the fall with Lindsay, the permanent Branch Librarian here at Masonville, so keep that in mind for the next school year.  Also, there are still a couple of books that haven't been returned yet. If you have one, please return it to any branch as soon as possible.

I will miss these monthly get togethers.  Have a great summer!

Jessica

March's Meeting

We have our book club's 2nd last meeting tonight. We will be talking about The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. It is definitely a different kind of dystopian novel than the Hunger Games and it had quite a cliff hanger ending. Will you be reading the next book?

The selection for next month is another historical fiction called A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee. Since that seemed to be the favourite genre of the group, I thought it would be nice to end off with one that most would enjoy!

See you tonight!
Jessica

February's Meeting

Remember that our next book club meeting will be tomorrow night. We will be talking about Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey. So far I have heard great response to this book from those of you that I have seen in the library, so hopefully that will make for a fun meeting. I'm particularly excited about our craft for this meeting, which has absolutely no correlation to the book! Next month's selection is The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau.

I hope to see you all tomorrow!
Jessica

January's Meeting

Our next book club meeting is tonight. Once again, we'll be welcoming a couple of new members! The book for discussion is The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Only having been familiar with the 1939 movie, I found all of the differences between the book and the movie quite interesting. You will also receive our book for next month, Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey. It is in the running for the 2012 Red Maple award.

See you tonight!
Jessica

November's Meeting

I'm glad everyone was able to make it for our last meeting and hopefully we can keep that good momentum going. We'll also be welcoming a couple of new members! The book for discussion is The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and we'll be doing a festive craft (one that you haven't done before, I promise!). You will also receive our book for next month, The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. I don't know about you, but I will really appreciate a happy ending after the last book.

See you soon!

Jessica

October's Meeting

Our next meeting is tomorrow night. It's too bad that some of you weren't able to make it last month, so hopefully you'll be able to make it out tomorrow. We'll be discussing Holes by Louis Sachar and making a fun book-o'-lantern craft, just in time for Halloween! You will also receive our book for next month, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, coming to us by special request. We still have spaces open in the book club, so if you know of anyone who'd be interested it's not too late for them to join.

See you tomorrow!
Jessica

Welcome Back!

Registration starts today for this year's book club! Since this will be my first year running the book club (or any book club, for that matter!), I look forward to meeting all of the new and returning members at our first meeting on September 28th. I hope that we will have a lot of fun sharing some great books and crafts. Please come prepared to talk about your favourite books and recent reads at our first meeting, which will have the added bonus of helping me pick books that you will enjoy for us to read throughout the year.

Jessica