荣誉+ PELP读书俱乐部

欢迎来到Honors + PELP读书俱乐部! We will meet in the Honors Commons lounge at the end of every month to discuss the monthly book club pick. 如果你有任何问题， please email Zoe Huffman, 读书俱乐部 Head, at zhuffman@my.阿卜苏.edu!

九月至2023年:

For the September book club pick, we have chosen 公主新娘威廉·戈德曼! We will meet on September 26th in the Honors Commons at 5:00 p.m.

What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince 而事实证明他的确是...好吧...比她的梦中情人差多了? As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern 经典, 公主新娘. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears. 现在，高盛帮了爸爸一个大忙. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere. 是关于什么的? 击剑. 战斗. 真爱. 强烈的恨. 严厉的报复. 几个巨人. 很多坏人. 很多好人. 《五六个美女. 怪物和怪物温柔的. 一些S好吧逃脱和捕获. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little 性. 简而言之，它是关于一切的.

触发警告: 强迫婚姻，肢体语言 & Emotional Abuse, Alcoholism, Suicide (accidental), 谋杀 & Attempted 谋杀, Torture, Knife Violence, Kidnapping, Loss of Autonomy, 狩猎.

在哪里可以找到: 亚马逊(9美元.89), Libby (Free), Montgomery County Library (Free), Thrift Books ($11.49), 伍德沃德图书馆(免费)

10月- 2023年:

For the October book club pick, we have chosen Frankenstein 玛丽·雪莱! We will meet on October 24th in the Honors Commons at 5:00 p.m.

《科学怪人》封面

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. 但他的 botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. 玛丽·雪莱令人毛骨悚然的哥特式故事 was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near 拜伦在日内瓦湖的别墅. It would become the world’s most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

触发警告: Medical Experimentation, Death of 父母, 谋杀.

在哪里可以找到: 亚马逊(5美元.99), Kindle Unlimited (Subscription), Libby (Free), Montgomery County Library (免费)，Thrift Books(5美元).09)、伍德沃德图书馆(免费)

十一月至2023年:

For the November book club pick, we have chosen I'm Glad My Mom Dies 作者:Jennette McCurdy! We will meet on November 28th in the Honors Commons at 5:00 p.m.

Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. 她母亲的 dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to 让她妈妈开心. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. 她在家里忍受了漫长的痛苦。 makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? 你认为达科塔范宁没有给她的画着色?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing 她的日记，电子邮件，还有她所有的收入.

In I’m Glad My Mom Died , Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. 找一个新的Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. 虽然妈妈很高兴，给粉丝发邮件 club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. 这些问题只会让 worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & 猫和阿丽亚娜在一起格兰德，她的母亲死于癌症. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what 她真的很想.

触发警告: Ableism, Body-shaming, Child Physical Verbal & Emotional Abuse (including gaslighting)< Groooming discussed, Hoarding, OCD, Eating Disorder (Bulimia), Graffic Disordered Eating, Alcohol Consumption, Emesis, Death of a Mother (Terminal Breast Cancer).

在哪里可以找到: 亚马逊(19美元.58), Libby (Free), Montgomery County Library (Free), Thrift Books ($21.89), 伍德沃德图书馆(免费)

12月- 2024年:

For the December book club pick, we have chosen Book Lovers 艾米丽·亨利! We will meet on January 30th in the Honors Commons at 5:00 p.m.

图书爱好者图书封面

Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. 而是 of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from 回到城里. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many 而且从来都不可爱.

触发警告: 焦虑 & Panic Attacks, Depression (mentioned), Stroke (parent), Grief & 损失描述, 《母亲之死.

在哪里可以找到: 亚马逊(17美元.00), Libby (Free), Montgomery County Library (Free), Thrift Books ($7.49), 伍德沃德图书馆(免费)