Hey BBers!
We are so excited to be heading into summer! It is time for what we call "lazy reading" - no hurries, no worries, just easy reading! What could be better than that? We'll even help make your book club planning lazy too!
If your book club is looking for a great lazy reading experience, try a "Potluck and Potbook" (no nothing illegal). Normally with our book club get-togethers the host supplies dinner and the book choice, but with a "Potluck and Potbook" it works a little different. Why? Well:
1. It's a Potluck (Preparing a meal for over six couldn't get much easier than that.)
2. It's Potbook - With a potbook, each of us brings a possible book choice. We will choose from "the pot" for the next month's read. So no pressure on the host to weed through all the summer reading lists on their own. (It's also a great way to create your personal summer reading list too with all the choices!)
As you are gathering up books for your potbook, don't miss our June BB Book Pick, "Farsighted" by Emlyn Chand. "Farsighted" was voted our 2012 BB "The Book Pick" contest winner and hence the June book choice! Congratulations Emlyn!! Join us in reading it and share your review! Please also note that Emlyn Chand is a big supporter of Seedlings.org, our literacy spotlight below, with a portion of her "Farsighted" proceeds to be donated to this wonderful charity.
Reading our potbooks and getting high on life,
All of us at BookBundlz
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Our June Book Pick for our
BB Book Club
and the 2012 Winner of "The Book Pick" Contest:
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Farsighted
By Emlyn Chand
Alex's life has never been easy. The only other student who will talk to him is the school bully, his parents are dead-broke and insanely overprotective, and to complicate matters even more, he's blind. Just when he thinks he'll never have a shot at a normal life, a new girl from India moves into town. Simmi is smart, nice, and actually wants to be friends with Alex. Plus she smells like an Almond Joy bar. Yes, sophomore year might not be so bad after all.
Unfortunately, Alex is in store for another new arrival--an unexpected and often embarrassing ability to "see" the future. Try as he may, Alex is unable to ignore his visions, especially when they begin to suggest that Simmi is in danger. With the help of the mysterious psychic next door and new friends who come bearing gifts of their own, Alex must embark on a journey to change his future.
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Book Club News:
Miss O is BACK!
What can we say, she got inspired. And we can't blame her... She chose WILD!
"It's the true story so fantastic Oprah launched a brand new, interactive book club to share the experience with readers everywhere! [Click here] to find out why Oprah says Cheryl Strayed's Wild is truly a wild ride, and learn more about how to participate in Oprah's Book Club 2.0 on your favorite e-reader"
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Our Other Monthly Features Include:
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Literacy News:
In 1984 when Debra Bonde founded Seedlings, braille materials were scarce and expensive. Her goals were to increase the availability and lower the cost of braille books for children in order to promote their literacy skills and the love of reading. In 1985, the first year of book production, Debra made 221 books in her basement office. By 1990, Seedlings was producing 5,000 books per year, which precipitated its move out of Debra's basement and into the Bentley Center in Livonia, Michigan, and eventually to our present location on Farmington Road in Livonia. In 2011, with a small staff, and a group of loyal volunteers, Seedlings produced over 21,000 braille books and articles, with a grand total of 345,000 since 1984, equaling over 16 million pages of braille!
In 1994, Seedlings added The Rose Project, which provides encyclopedia articles in braille for student's projects and reports. The Rose Project has become a very popular resource for students eager to work independently. We anticipate requests for approximately 500 articles per year. Thanks to generous donations from our supporters, this service is entirely free to visually impaired students in grades 1-12.
To learn more, please go to: www.seedlings.org
Oh, if the whole world could read, what a world it would be!
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Author's Corner:
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Don't miss our
Interview with Author Emlyn Chand
10. Where did the inspiration for your book come from?
Everything started with a single image—my face in these tacky oversized sunglasses reflecting out at me from the car’s side mirror. I was daydreaming while my husband drove us across Michigan for my sister’s wedding. Something about my image really struck me in an almost horrific way. I felt the glasses made me look blind but found it so weird that there was still a clear image within them; it seemed so contradictory. At the time...
Read the Rest of the Interview
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New Discussion Topic:
In honor of our "The Book Pick" contest:
When you are looking for books to read, which do you give more credibility to, the rating or the review? Often people just rate a book... is that enough for you or do you need to see the written word on the book!
Click here to get in on the general discussion and let us know.
Do you have a topic you would like to discuss? Don't be afraid to start a discussion topic of your own. The more the merrier, if you ask us. Either on the BB Club House discussion board or on a book page there are lots of good places to start discussions.
New Discussion
Questions Available:
The Red Book
By Deborah Copaken Kogan
Iron House
By John Hart
Find more discussion questions on our discussion questions page.
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