Bookworms, get ready to read in May

Hi Bookworms! We've received some very exciting recommendations this May for our bookworm meeting. Here is the list of books you guys recommended, along with a few sentences on what that book is about. Once again, we have the poll up on our website and you're allowed to choose more than one book if you cannot pick a favourite. (Yes, they all sound so spectacular!) Voting starts today and ends on May 3rd, Saturday night at 11 pm. 

Heaven Can Wait by Cally Taylor: Lucy is a ghost stuck in limbo, but as it turns out, limbo is a grotty student-style house in North London. She has 21 days to help her geeky friend find a girlfriend, or she'll never be with her fiance, Dan, again.

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion: A lonely genetics professor sets out to look for love when he meets Rosie, who is looking for a DNA expert to help her find her biological father.

The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert: Romance at the 1898 Omaha World Fair between a ventriloquist and an actress at the Midway's Chamber of Horrors.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls: A memoir of the Walls children as they struggle through life with an alcoholic father and a mother who doesn't want a family.

Cinder by Marissa Meyer; Cyborg Cinderella in a dystopian setting.

Watership Down by Richard Adams: Story of a band of rabbits fighting against the intrusion of man and the destruction of their home.

Next week, we will have another poll up for you to vote on when our meeting shall be!

Talk to you soon!

The Bookworms Team

Bookworms in the Summer

Hi Bookworms! We haven't spoken to each other for quite some time and we've all missed your faces.

I hope all of your exams are going well, and you are in a mood to read more books. Why? Because the uOttawa Bookworms will continue to meet throughout the summer!

We have received two recommendations so far for what should read in May. If you have any other books that you want to read, be sure to fill out a Recommendations form on our website! Or post on our Facebook Page wall with your recommendations

Click on the titles below to read what each book is about.

1) Heaven Can Wait by Cally Taylor
2) The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

See you guys in May. :)

The uOttawaBookworms Team.

Our Meeting in March

Hey guys, some good news and some bad news regarding this month's meeting.

I just heard back from Gwen, the clubs coordinator at the SFUO, that rooms on March the 15th are all booked up. With that said, Sunday, March 23rd is still a go!

If you guys have another time in mind to hold our second meeting within the month, please let us know immediately so we can book another room at another time. If not, we will be having only one meeting this month.

As of right now, our meeting in March will be on:
Sunday, March 23rd. 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm, in UCU 206

Winner Winner

Chicken Dinner.

Or if you would rather have butterbeer, that's also fine.

As you might have guessed, you guys have chosen to read the book that shall not be named...

Okay. Okay. I'm done with all of my jokes. It's time to decide when our own little Order of the Phoenix shall meet. If the results of the voting are close, we will hold two meetings in March to cater to your availability. Because of this, you will only be allowed to select one option in the poll.

• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Saturday March 8th 
• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Sunday March 9th
• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Saturday March 15h
• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Sunday March 16th 
• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Saturday March 22nd
• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Sunday March 23rd

The poll will close this Wednesday at 9:00 pm.

Platform 9 3/4 awaits.

Stella 

(P.S.: If anyone still wants their copy of The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness, even though we're not reading it for book club can send us an email and we can arrange a time for you to pick it up.)

New Poll: What To Read in March

Thank you everyone for all of the suggestions for next month's pick. Boy, do we have an exciting month in front of us!

Here are what you have suggested we read:

1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 
2) Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm
3) Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen
4) Calvin and Hobbes
5) The Giver by Lois Lowry
6) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
7) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8) Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 
9) The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
10 Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls



The poll is now open and will close on Sunday, February 23rd, at 11:00 pm (23:00).

Happy Reading.

Stella.

What should we read next month?

Hello everyone,

I hope you guys are all enjoying your Reading Week. Perhaps, you are catching up on some Olympics action, or enjoying your mom's homemade meals. Either way, we cannot wait to see you next month.

For next month, it was suggested we read something from our childhood, something nostalgic. Here are four suggestions, but please fill out one of our Recommendation/Feedback forms on our website if you have something else in mind.

1) The first book in the Harry Potter series
2) Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm
3) Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen
4) Calvin and Hobbes

We wish everyone an awesome Reading Week and happy reading.

Stella

Our next meeting will be held in....

The room is booked, so let's start reading! :)
This month, we will continue our tradition and meet in UCU 206.

Straying away from the usual, our meeting will be held on Sunday, February 16th, from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm.

See you then!

Stella