Hi LOL Crew!
So we are meeting this Wednesday! Let's hear your feedback via an email to Mr. O or a comment to this post! What do you like about LOL and what might you do differently next year!How has the group been academically or personally rewarding?
Thanks so much, and we will see you on Wednesday!

Hi LOL crew! Our next meeting is Thursday, February 21st! In honor of Valentine's Day, we will be discussing the topic of LOVE in your reading. So come prepared to talk about true love, love at first sight, star-crossed lovers, love gone bad, unrequited love, love triangles, and more!
Why is love such a prominent theme in literature?
What is your favorite type of love story? Do you like a fairytale romance, a slightly twisted romance (think Sookie Stackhouse Novels), star-crossed lovers (Romeo and Juliet), or a good love triangle (King Arthur, Guenevere, and Lancelot)?
Love seems to be a huge catalyst for action, both good and bad, in many novels...is that exaggerated for our entertainment? Why or why not?
Okay...think on that and come prepared to share!
See you soon!
Molly

HI GCHS LOL group! I am excited to meet next Thursday, the 21st for our first session of the year! I like Mr. O's post about what he read over break and I can't wait to hear about what all of you read. I actually had some time to relax and read also. I am reading the Accidental Tourist which was a recommendation from Mr. O himself. It is a good book. It follows the life an Obsessive Compulsive (at least that is my diagnosis) main character as he and his estranged wife deal with the murder of their young son. I just read Daddy Love by Carol Joyce Oates. It was a very creepy story about a boy who was abducted by a pedophile. I can’t say I recommend it, but I also found it very upsetting because my son is about the age of the young boy who was taken. I guess it makes you think which is the point, right? I also ready Kiss the Girls by James Patterson. He is such a popular author that I felt I needed to read just one book. It was creepy, but had sexual violence like Daddy Love. I think I need a nice, fun romantic book  How about you guys! What have you been reading???

Hi LOL Group! We are meeting December 20th for our last LOL meeting of 2012! Please come prepared to talk about the best book you read in 2012. Why did you like it? How did it make you feel? Please come prepared to discuss a specific passage or theme in the book that made it meaningful to you! If you have time, please start posting some ideas ahead of time! Thanks and I will see you in a couple of weeks.

Hi LOL! It seems like we just met! What a great Halloween celebration! Okay so Thursday let's talk about the time: past, present, and future. Please come prepared to talk about a book of your choice and discussion the following: How did the historical, present, or future setting in which the story took place affect the story? Would the story be the same if it had taken place in another era? Why do you think the author wrote the story in that particular era? What about books that were written a long time ago, but were in the present at the time that they were published. How do they read now that they actually take place in the past? What about books that were written in the past about the future, i.e. 1984? What are those like to read now that the future is actually in the past???? When reading the story, was it told chronologically or did the author jump back and forth between the present, future, and past? Do you like reading stories that jump around or do you prefer stories that following a chronological timeline? Alright! I'll see you on Thursday and please try and post one comment this week!!! Molly

Welcome LOL crew! It was great to get to meet you at our first gathering! I am looking forward to our next meeting on Halloween!
I enjoyed hearing about your favorite books, and I added quite a few titles to my never ending list of titles to read. I hope that you will visit this site a few times a month to keep our discussion alive! To comment, which I hope you will do, just add yourself as a follower of this blog! Below is a widget with some of the titles you listed as your favorite reads--sorry if I didn't show your fav--I'm short on time today ;) If you click on the book it takes you to LibraryThing which is a great website to check out if you have time! TTYS!
Molly