February Book Announced...

The February Book Club book is...

Under the Never Sky

By Veronica Rossi

Goodreads blurb: Since she'd been on the outside, she'd survived an Aether storm, she'd had a knife held to her throat, and she'd seen men murdered. This was worse.

Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland - known as The Death Shop - are slim. If the cannibals don't get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She's been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He's wild - a savage - and her only hope of staying alive.

A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile - everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria's help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.

Anyone is free to read along with us and post their thoughts either below, or on the reading page that will be posted the night of the meet-up February 28th, 2013. If you're in the Orange County area and want to come to our book club meeting, we'd love to have you. Please contact Jolene at jolene dot haley at gmail dot com.

Happy Reading!

January Book Selection: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

January Book: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins

Goodreads blurb: Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts.

The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. 

But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that will weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Discussion Questions

1. What would you rate this novel on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being the worse and 5 being the best.

2. Who is your favorite character and why?

3. How do the cameras being ever-present affect everyone in the book?

We also used this awesome discussion guide of questions we found from Scholastic. Thanks Scholastic!

Tell us below, how did you like the Hunger Games? Any thoughts to the questions posted? Got a question of your own? Be sure to post it!