April Book

[Tepcat]

This poll is to decide the book for April. Based on the number of posts to the Kingdom Keepers thread, no one enjoyed that book. I personally couldn't find it. The library didn't have it and none of the bookstores I went to had it either. I still intend to read it and I will post my thoughts on it when I finish.

This month, we are going to include a snippet about the book as well as posting the poll so everyone had an idea about the book before they try to read it.

Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events 1 - 3

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.


Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Ever since her mother disappeared nine years ago, twelve-year-old Meggie and her father Mo have centered their lives on books and reading. Piles of books are stacked all over their house, Mo spends his days restoring books in his workshop, and Meggie often falls asleep with a book under her pillow. Mysteriously enough, though, Meggie realizes that she has never heard Mo read aloud. When she discovers Mo's secret --- that he can literally read characters from books into life --- Meggie begins to think that there might be more to her mother's disappearance than she has always been told. And when one of the menacing characters from a book she has read shows up at her front door, Meggie discovers that she is in for a quest as thrilling as any adventure tale.

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

Narnia already existed through The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, because C.S. Lewis actually wrote that book first. What he had to do in The Magician's Nephew was to explain the story behind the story and to fill in some of the gaps. Why was there a lamp-post in Narnia? Where did the White Witch come from? And why were there Talking Animals like Mr. and Mrs. Beaver? And, most important of all, how did the comings and goings between our world and the land of Narnia first begin?


The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

In which we meet the Dursleys and learn of the peculiar happenings surrounding the arrival of Harry Potter on their doorstep including a conversation between Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall.


Frances Hardinge's Fly by Night

In a fractured Realm, struggling to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and religious tyranny, a twelve-year-old orphan and a homicidal goose become the accidental heroes of a revolution

[Gorath Dinoxus]

i love inkheart. very good book and will keep you entertained for a long time. Hah Capricorn got owned

[CaptainMonkeys]

Glad to see my suggestion up there!

[The Beautiful Letdown]

I have never heard of the other books, but all of Lemony Snicket's books are amaaazing, and I will warn you they're hard to put down

[Tepcat]

Originally Posted by The Beautiful Letdown

I have never heard of the other books, but all of Lemony Snicket's books are amaaazing, and I will warn you they're hard to put down

That is why we decided to post a quick blurb about the book with a site for each one so you can make and educated poll choice. It would be really cool if everyone would start posting a review of whatever book they are reading as soon as they finish it. That way we can talk about more books than just the flavor of the month.

Tepcat

[Tepcat]

Inkheart



I will create a thread for you to post discussion about.