Ah...I feel so much more relaxed since I we had this meeting. The 3 book choice thing was way more stressed then I anticipated!
Anyway, this is what we discussed:
The Turkish Holocaust, how the Turks deny it ever happened or that it was ever that bad. We also discussed the conflict between the Turks and the Greeks. One person told us a story of how is grandfather died by walking in the midst of the conflict at the wrong time. Then I learned that it was against the law for anyone to say anything against Adaturk (spelling?), not that anyway does...
Then we compared The Perks of Being a Wallflower to Catcher in the Rye. How Charlie and Holden are very observant, so much so that it could be life-changing. The one contrast was that Charlie doesn't get into trouble to get attention, he's actually a really good kid.
We also compared Speak to To Kill a Mockingbird.
The we digressed and discussed the newly popluar Vampire genre and its over done explosion.
Does anyone agree with this?
Authors discussed:
James Patterson
Jules Vern
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