Book Group

Yesterday Stephanie and I hosted our mother-daughter book group. We read The Rabbi's Girls, an uncharacteristically disappointing book by Johanna Hurwitz. This one was just a major downer (The father dies at the end! What is this, a Disney movie?) and we moms all agreed that it read as though Hurwitz didn't really spend a lot of time or energy writing it. I guess we have officially scraped the bottom of the barrel for books that will appeal to and be appropriate for third-grade girls and have a Jewish theme (but not the Holocaust; most of us want to decide when and how to introduce that to our kids). So, until someone comes up with something we've all missed, we're going to switch to secular books. Fine by me; the last thing I want to do is have the girls sour on the idea of the book group just because we assign them lousy books!

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[Library Lady]

Send me a list of what you've read. Finding books for something like this is what I do for a living!