One Blink at a Time
This month the Book Club invites the French Club to join us for the reading of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the poetically written memoir of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the former editor of French Elle Magazine. After suffering a stroke, Bauby finds himself "locked in:" he is of sound mind but is unable to communicate because of paralysis caused by the stroke. Without the ability to speak or write, Bauby uses a system of blinks to dictate his story letter by letter. The story he tells is both beautiful and terrifying.
Book discussion: Wednesday, February 10, in the library, after school
Film viewing: Thursday, February 11, in Mrs. Everett's room (250)
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This Month's Selection:
Dave Pelzer's official website
This Year's Theme
Ignorance is not bliss.
We may share one nation, but we do not share one national experience. The goal this year is to read books that open our minds to the American experience as we might not expect it. What's it like to be a Native American who leaves the reservation and tries to assimilate to the culture outside it? What is it like to be disabled in America? How are the experiences of immigrants, the impoverished, etc. different from what we might consider the "American experience"? This year, we will find out.
We may share one nation, but we do not share one national experience. The goal this year is to read books that open our minds to the American experience as we might not expect it. What's it like to be a Native American who leaves the reservation and tries to assimilate to the culture outside it? What is it like to be disabled in America? How are the experiences of immigrants, the impoverished, etc. different from what we might consider the "American experience"? This year, we will find out.
About the Book Club
The Book Club meets after school on the second Wednesday of each month to discuss that month's selection.
Books are chosen by the Selection Committee, made up of student Book Club members. Come to any Committee meeting to be a part of the selection process.
Books are chosen by the Selection Committee, made up of student Book Club members. Come to any Committee meeting to be a part of the selection process.
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2009-2010 Selections
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Pet Semetary by Stephen King
- A Time to Kill by John Grisham
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
List of the selections from 2007-2008:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
- My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok
- Dress Your Family in Corduory and Denim, by David Sedaris
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Timeline, by Michael Crichton
- Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt
- Prep, by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown
- Uglies, by Steve Westerfeld
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2 comments:
guess i'm on kinda late who all voted on the pole? i know i didn't before it was closed
This is a comment on the last book, The Road. There wasn't any blog for it and I couldn't make it to the meeting. I really liked This book, not at first, but towards the middle. I found the writing style a bit hard to get used to but the story behind it was phononmenal. I found sympathy for the child and the man, especially as they came across hurdles, such as the man that took their cart. I was scared for them as well, and never expected the father to die at the end. I wish that Cormack would have told what happened to the boy after he went with the new people at the end. I was half-expecting the father and boy alike to make it out alive.
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