A Holiday Greeting!

Happy holiday's to all of you and your families :), have a SAFE annnnd fun new years! see you all in January!

Meeting Date

So!  Shall we meet next on Sunday the 8th at 11:30, or Sunday the 15th at 11:30?  Have your say on the the blog poll by Wednesday at 5:00.

His Dark Materials Trilogy

Well, no Song of the Lioness this time around (though I think I'm going to reread them anyway!); Philip Pullman will be whisking us away to alternate universes and dark epic events in the His Dark Materials Trilogy, which is composed of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.  You can expect a meeting date poll some time next week.  Happy reading!

Let's Choose Our Series

We only received one additional suggestion (Inheritance) so I've supplemented the options with one of my own (Abhorsen) and one that was suggested before (His Dark Materials).  Cast your vote on the blog poll by Friday at 5:00 and we'll announce the winner and pick our meeting date.

Next Meeting's Book

Hello Bookworms,

We decided at our last meeting to skip December and have our next meeting at the beginning of January, shortly after school starts up again.  There were also a couple suggestions put forward for Fantasy, but it occurred to me after the meeting that we just read Fantasy in October, so if anyone has a non-Fantasy recommendation they'd like to make, let's allow that.  Since we have the holidays to read we discussed doing a series for or next meeting, so if you would like to recommend a series feel free!  The recommendations made at the last meeting were both series: Mercedes Lackey's Five Hundred Kingdoms trilogy (The Fairy Godmother, One Good Knight, and Fortune's Fool) and Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness quartet (Alanna: the First Adventure, In the Hands of the Goddess, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, and Lioness Rampant). 

Email us your suggestions by Tuesday night at 5:00 and we'll set up a poll.

Map of Panem

Stephanie found this interesting Map of Panem (the futuristic North America in which The Hunger Games is set) that a fan has devised based on clues from the book.  It's not quite what I had pictured, but it's interesting none the less.  It's also entertaining to see what's become of Canada!

Thanks for sharing, Steph!