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[BOOK 1 BEGUN] Book Club
Culture and Media Book Club Welcome to C&M's Book Club! Here you will find fun and hopefully stimulating conversation on books for everyone who cares to join. It's easy and fast to join, even if you're jumping in mid-book! Here's a quick start for those jumping in mid-book: » Acquire the book. » Check out the chapter summaries in this first post - I'll be sure to either find some online or write some up so those behind can at least get the idea of what's happening plot-wise. » Read the current chapter and discuss! You're more than welcome to do it the long way by reading everything we've already read, but this way you don't have to do a ton of work just to participate. Current Book/Chapter Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Chapters 1 and 2 Summary of past chapters: Prologue Spoiler:
Chapter 1 Spoiler:
Chapter 2 Spoiler:
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Oooh, The Princess Bride! I've seen the movie multiple times but never read the book; that would be a good choice. Alanna: The First Adventure sounds really good as well, I'm not sure which one I want! Ultimately, I've never read any of those books so I'm fine with whichever one wins. ^^
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Is It bad that I want re-read Alanna The First Adventure? :)
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Alanna: The First Adventure. I miss good adventure stories; most of the books I've read were either dark or romance-themed.
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OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is my favourite book of all-time. Easily takes my vote. |
The Princess Bride is a pretty awesome book, but one that I've already read. I've heard some great things about Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children so I'm definitely voting for that one. (plus, semi-spooky books are always good)
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First choice: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
If not: Alanna: The First Adventure. |
I've also heard good things about Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children so my vote is for that one.
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Ooh Alanna: The First Adventure all the way! :D
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I'm gonna vote Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children since I've been meaning to read that for a really long time anyway! All of these seem pretty interesting though.
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Alanna! That one sounds really interesting. Although I've only read the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, I think any of them would be good!
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My vote goes to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
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Obviously my vote would be for "Into Thin Air"... but since that isn't an option; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, because I've read all the others.
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I admit that I am really undecided on which one to vote for since I have not read any of those four books. I have heard of the movie version of A Princess Bride, but I have not heard much of the other three at all.
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My vote goes for Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children.
I want to reread The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time too, so I wouldn't mind it at all. In fact, it isn't getting enough love here. Believe me guys, it is a wonderful book. One of my all time favorites. It is a must read. |
Yay! Looks like Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has won! I'm so excited, I've never read it before!
If you can't check the book out of a library or buy it yourself, PM me and I'll hook you up. :) Since there are eleven chapters, how about we start with the first two for this week? Finish it at your own pace (I don't have anything real to do for the next few days so I'll probably be done fairly fast haha) and then we can discuss! |
Sounds fun, I'll go ahead and start reading after I finish The Gunslinger! ^^
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As promised, I finished reading the first two chapters really quick because I can already tell this is going to be a good read and updated the first post with the summaries!
Thoughts: I can't figure out yet whether this is going to be a fantasy novel or a novel about WWII. I don't want to read ahead because I want to be able to speculate, but the book is definitely doing a good job or putting us in the confusion in Jacob's head by wavering between "it's real" "it's not real" "it's real" over and over. It's also tapping into the tradition of fairy tales in a world that doesn't believe - kids that are told the stories, don't believe them, and then realize as an adult that they're real. I'll be interested to see if it's invoking that tradition to follow it or subvert it. The other thing that I found interesting was the implication already that Jacob is going to be out of contact on this island with the outside world - there's a narrative theory of the "green world", the world where children leave their parents and deal with conflict, coming out of it adults ready to live their own lives. I suspect that, although his father is coming with him, we won't be seeing too much of him in the story. |
Sorry it took a while! I started and finished the first two chapters today :)
The version I read online included the pictures - not sure if this was in all versions - and some of them definitely looked a little creepy, which I think added to the story quite a bit. Quote:
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Oh no! I had no idea we started already.
I'll get the book next time I go to Target, which should probably be either tonight or tomorrow and catch up and maybe keep going depending on how good it gets!! |
Just finished reading the prologue and wondered how many pages were in chapter 1. There isn't a table of contents in the physical book, at least, so I decided that I would compile my own table of contents for my own reference. Figured I would post this here.
Prologue: 12 - 22 Chapter 1: 24 - 37 Chapter 2: 39 - 68 Chapter 3: 70 - 85 Chapter 4: 87 - 103 Chapter 5: 105 - 141 Chapter 6: 143 - 181 Chapter 7: 183 - 206 Chapter 8: 208 - 245 Chapter 9: 247 - 268 Chapter 10: 270 - 333 Chapter 11: 335 - 352 Photograph credits: 345 - 355 Acknowledgements: 356 Interview: 357 - 365 Hollow City preview: 373 - 382 Each page can contain a maximum of 32 lines of text. |
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