Welcome to The Book Club
Who are we?
We are a group of sixth formers who love to read and want to talk about what we think about when we read. We will publish our thoughts on what we read, in the form of group and individually authored articles and posts, and round-table podcasts.
We are a group of sixth formers who love to read and want to talk about what we think about when we read. We will publish our thoughts on what we read, in the form of group and individually authored articles and posts, and round-table podcasts.
Let's get started...
The Book Club had its inaugural meetings in mid-July 2016. To get off to a good start, we chose two novels to read over the summer:
Ray Bradbury's classic novel, first published in 1953, is a work of dystopian fiction. Set in a near-future society, firemen, rather than putting our fires, set books alight as a means of preserving order. Bradbury wrote the novel on a rented typewriter, in the basement of a UCLA library. He recalls dashing from basement to library, grabbing books from shelves in order to find quotations to use in his novel.
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Newcomer Victoria Aveyard's debut novel has been compared to The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, X-Men, and even "Cinderella." In Aveyard's world, society is divided along the lines of blood-colour (silver the colour of the ruling elite, red that of the common-folk), and the author certainly seems to be motivated by issues surrounding social, cultural, and ethnic identity (see Aveyard's recent post, for example). Aveyard's Red Queen was published in 2015; part II of the series, Glass Sword, came out in February of this year, following by a two-story collection in April, entitled Cruel Crown. Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket in the Hunger Games films) is said to be in talks as potential director of a movie adaptation.
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