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Mara, Daughter of the Nile. Runner-Up in Book Club Challenge.
I came flying out of a back alley in Egypt, close to Mara's heels. Time was running short and everything was falling to pieces. I was expecting someone to jump out at us from every corner, and so was she. When she was blacking out on a palace floor, half dead, I was screaming silently from the shadows.
By Lydia Stewart3 years ago in BookClub
Important Things: The Little Prince. Runner-Up in Book Club Challenge.
When you see this photo, what is it? Does it frighten you? To many people who are unfamiliar with The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, it looks like a hat. But this is no hat. This terrifying thing represents two things: the death of childhood curiosity and innocence and, more importantly, a boa constrictor so massive, that it can eat an entire elephant as shown below.
By Christopher Michael3 years ago in BookClub
My Waystone: or, Echoes in Three Parts. Runner-Up in Book Club Challenge.
The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die. Patrick Rothfuss, prologue to The Name of the Wind
By Mackenzie Davis3 years ago in BookClub
My Friend, Margaret. Runner-Up in Book Club Challenge.
Shy and withdrawn, I entered the classroom already in progress. After being introduced, I took the empty seat at the back of the sixth-grade math class learning about different shapes. Several were on the green chalk board showing angled degrees. Unfamiliar with the equations and the names of the various shapes, I felt lost and alone. Sixth grade was a hard year for a variety of reasons, from being the new girl in town, missing out on education due to multiple moves each year, and being removed from my mother’s care, my changing body added to my long list of reasons for feeling awkward. Given the degree of isolation I found myself in, deciding to read Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume at the suggestion of the school librarian was the best thing I could have done for myself at that time.
By Esther Julianne McDaniel3 years ago in BookClub
Compass Flame. Runner-Up in Book Club Challenge.
Fourth grade was a weird year for me. It led to other weird years, which have made up my life up to this point. For context, I have an older brother. When he aged into middle school, we had to switch our school campus. All of the people I knew and the halls I had spent hours and hours in were switched. I left my friends, got glasses, and attended class with a new group of 20ish kids who all knew each other since they were in kindergarten.
By Darby S. Fisher3 years ago in BookClub
The Eye of the World. Runner-Up in Book Club Challenge.
When I turned twelve, my mother lent me a paperback novel. She normally preferred to buy hardbacks, but this one wasn’t formatted in your typical six by nine-inch trim. It was an eight-hundred-page manuscript roughly the size and shape of a hardback. The cover art featured a warrior atop a huge black horse set against a full moon. Beside him in stark contrast rode a petite woman in blue carrying a staff and sitting astride a small but elegant white horse. I can still recall the tiny bat-like creature flying just under the title, ‘The Eye of the World’.
By Kenny Penn3 years ago in BookClub
The Color of the Wheat Fields . Runner-Up in Book Club Challenge.
Whenever I see a wheat field, I think of a little prince with golden hair. I admit he’s a silly person to think about since I’ve never met him myself, but that is the power of a good story. The story is called “The Little Prince,” which was published in 1944 by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
By Judah LoVato3 years ago in BookClub
