The Hunger Games(#1)

I just finished the first book a few minutes ago and i absolutely LOVED it. I was even crying in a few places now im desperate for the next book and a little obsessed with the book. It was perfect. Its a lot like The Host but yet completely different and i think that's what got me hooked.

Next Meeting!

I hope talking with your teammates at this week’s meeting helped to get you excited about reading more of the Battle books—I know I am! I was lucky enough to pick up a copy of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow today. I’ve heard such great reviews of this book and can’t wait to read it for myself. In any case, I know how I’ll be spending this upcoming rainy weekend…

Listen to the announcements for our next BOB meeting on November 18^th. I mentioned at Tuesday’s meeting that the first book discussion of the year will be on November 12^th on the book Frozen Fire by Tim Bowler. If anyone is looking for a spooky diversion from the Battle books, we’d love for you to join us during lunch on the 12^th!

In the words of former teammate Anthony, read on book lovers…read on!

Resignation

I wanted to make this official, even though I spoke with Ms. Gietzle about this. Unfortunately, I have decided that it would be best if I dropped out for Personal reasons...


Sincerely,
Anthony

update

I finished Big Brother and I loved it. I am reading Jerk right now.
Sabeena

Paper Towns

Greetings all!

Here's a booktalk I developed for Paper Towns by John Green. Has anyone read this one yet? Loved it!

What else are you reading right now?

Paper Towns

by John Green

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Speigelmen (Prologue).

Quentin Jacobsen has been in love with his next-door neighbor, Margo Speigelman, since he was four years old. They used to hang out when they were younger, but ever since they started high school, Margo and Quentin began to drift apart, especially since Margo is part of the in crowd and Quentin, well, he isn’t. Now its two weeks before the end of their senior year and Quentin is ready to move on. That’s until the night that Margo cracks open his window and climbs back into his life. You see, Margo has an elaborate scheme of revenge planned—she recently discovered that her boyfriend is cheating on her with her best friend—and she needs Quentin’s help to execute it.

So, they spend the entire night together driving around town, delivering rotten fish, taking blackmail photos, breaking into SeaWorld, you know, the like.

The next day before school, Quentin can’t help but feel like things have changed between him and Margo, back to the way things used to be.

But, when he gets to school, Margo isn’t there. She doesn’t come the next day, or the next. In fact, next thing he knows Quentin is being questioned by the police and finds out that they suspect Margo has run away again. And this time, she has left a trail of clues meant only for him to follow.