Off and on our high school faculty....well, another English teacher and I...have hosted a book club. When she decided to not return to teaching and as a commitment to meet and chat and drink coffee and talk books, we decided to meet read a book each month over the summer and then to continue meeting even after school started.
Our group has grown some...another English teacher sometimes meets with us and one of the history teachers is somewhat committed. But...regardless...we love meeting and drinking coffee and chatting...sometimes, about the current month's book!
Our first three picks for 2025 are as follows:- January: The Snow Child, which I saw recommended on some Facebook online book club...and because I soooo love a good snow in January (we are out tomorrow for our first snow day! Yay!), so I suggested this title. So far? Interesting...seems to have a connection to a fairy tale, which I am going to need to read.
- February: James, which I received as an Audible gift (a first for me)...because I have never listened to a book. No. Never. Hummm...now, I must! But...I went ahead and bought a hard copy, as I can see maybe wanting to use excerpts in my class? This is a telling of Jim's side of the story, a character in Huck Finn. This title is also the chosen title for The Girlfriend Book Club...and I chose for Friends and Fiction for January for a book that begins with PB or J...yes, my J book!
- March: The Magician's Nephew - we chose this one after a discussion about my friend having read CS Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe...and that this was actually the first in the series...and that she had just asked her husband for the series...and my saying I had two copies of this series...and the decision was made to read the first one in the series. Yay!