Simi Valley High School Library

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Charlotte Brontë, Trailblazer April 21 is the birthday of Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), the English novelist and poet best known as the author of Jane Eyre. Along with her sisters, Anne (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) and Emily (Wuthering Heights), she was a literary trailblazer whose iconic stories and (for the time) daring social commentary made her a polarizing figure in her lifetime and an inspiration to subsequent generations. The oldest surviving child of an Anglo-Irish c...lergyman and his Cornish wife (who died when Charlotte was five), Charlotte was determined to earn her keep from her writing, despite daunting literary rejection and intense societal pressure to turn to more "womanly" pursuits. (To get around such prejudice, she used the pseudonym Currer Bell; Jane Eyre had been in print for a year before the publisher discovered that its runaway best-seller had been written by a woman). Through the mysterious alchemy of literary genius, all three Brontë sisters transformed childhood tragedy, unhappy boarding-school experiences, and keen observances of the people and harsh landscape of their native Yorkshire, into masterworks whose universal themes of belonging vs. independence, love vs. hate, and forgiveness vs. revenge still resonate today. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights remain perennial best-sellers in their own right; and the sisters' works and lives continue to inspire adaptations and retellings, both fictional and nonfictional, in both books and film. Charlotte, the oldest among them, only lived to age 38, and died childless; but through their life's work and literary "offspring," she and her sisters have achieved immortality.

Pioneer Book club Tuesday at lunch. Looking forward to discussing Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor.

Great book to read when your home with a cold. Eleven of the world’s best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlaine Harris are paired with eleven of the world’s best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille. The stories are edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child.

Pioneer Book Club & Holiday Party TUESDAY at lunch in the library!

See School Library Journals Best Books of 2017 list below.

See the YA List up close at this link http://slj.com/bestof2017/youngadult.php

Pioneer Book Club will be meeting on Nov. 7th to discuss

Book Club Central features Daniel Kraus. He's holding an online book discussion of IT. How cool is that?!? So here’s the plan: I’m going to give you a week and a half to get your act together. Obtain the book, clear your reading schedule, oil your creepily creaking doors, etc. On Monday, July 10, I’ll write about Chapters 1-3. You’ll want to have read that far so that you can participate in the discussion or, if you prefer, just shake your head in dismay. Every Monday thereafter I’ll post on that week’s assignment. Ten weeks later, on September 4, we’re done, and then you can go see the new movie adaptation that weekend. Follow @booklistreader for updates.

Just finished Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. Loved it!!!