June BotM Discussions and Resources

[Keara]

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[Meredith]

You will not be disappointed! It is an amazing book!!

[Keara]

I'm still on the library waiting list for Aristotle & Dante. Hopefully I can get it soon. :)

[Meredith]

By the end I was soo hoping for the ending he gave us. I only get wrapped up in character feelings while I'm reading the book but I could not stop reading either (never think about them much after unless I'm actively discussing it, the level of people's 'fandoms' so baffles me).

[Meredith]

I'm definitely glad people get so wrapped up in book characters, that's just never been me. I always liked non-fiction best, even as a kid, so maybe that's part of it. I was a daydreamer but I got lost in pretending to be Caesar. It's more the imagining the character doing other things, in other situations, the character as a very separate entity (vs putting myself in their place) that's hard for me to grasp.

[Meredith]

Not yet! It's on my list, but it's also the World Cup so I'm not getting as much reading done as usual. I'll probably try to start it after my current book is finished.

[Keara]

I was only able to finish Aristotle and Dante this month, but I adored it! Definitely one of my favorites. :)

[Meredith]

Soccer has eaten up my reading time almost entirely. Hoping to read The Golem and the Jinni in July though.

[Lilac]

Aristotle and Dante is amazing, oh my god. Do you know how the average teen feels about The Fault in Our Stars? That's how I feel about it.

[Meredith]

✿Lilac✿ wrote: "Aristotle and Dante is amazing, oh my god. Do you know how the average teen feels about The Fault in Our Stars? That's how I feel about it."

Me too, though I don't get it so much for The Fault in Our Stars. Green will write a great character who feels real and then insert an "ideal teen/how we wish we were as teens" character and it leaves me so cold. Of course I'm not a teenager, and reading about teens isn't my first choice for various reason. I can understand that some teens wouldn't mind that as much, but all the young adults reading, surely they notice it too?

Aristotle and Dante felt all real to me. Those weren't idealized teens, they were just teens.

[Keara]

Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of John Green. I do enjoy his work but I do not praise it. I praise Saenz though.

Ari and Dante were real. There's no doubt about it.