Blurb (as from Goodreads.com): I'm Adrienne Haus, survivor of a mother-daughter book club. Most of us didn't want to join. My mother signed me up because I was stuck at home all summer, with my knee in a brace. CeeCee's parents forced her to join after cancelling her Paris trip because she bashed up their car. The members of "The Unbearable Book Club," CeeCee, Jill, Wallis, and I, were all going into eleventh grade A.P. English. But we weren't friends. We were literary prisoners, sweating, reading classics, and hanging out at the pool. If you want to find out how membership in a book club can end up with a person being dead, you can probably look us up under mother-daughter literary catastrophe. Or open this book and read my essay, which I'll turn in when I go back to school.********************************************************************************
The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls. Wow what a mouthful of a title! This is the story of four young teens and their forced drafting into the Unbearable Book Club. Adrienne Haus, our slightly depressed and very insightful (but only because she's bored) main character, is not in the least thrilled to be co-heading a mother daughter book this summer when she could have been enjoying the outside on a wilderness adventure camp with her BFF Liz. Instead due to an accident she's stuck at home or at the pool (when she can get a ride that is...) being forced to spend time with spoiled and rebellious CeeCee, a stuck up and extremely paranoid Jill, and a weird and secretive Wallis.
Not one of these four, except for Wallis, wants to be here. CeeCee could have been living it up in Paris. That is before she took a little joy ride in her parents car... And Jill was forced both into working for the summer and joining this Unbearable Book Club. Wallis... Lets just says she's a mystery for now.
We watch as each of the books Adrienne reads relate to her everyday life as she makes new friends, does crazy and stupid things in the middle of the night, and spends all of her spare time at the community pool.
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, a young poor spanish girl, and a locked up depressed woman, each influence Adrienne and her friends as they make their way through a sure to be horrific summer. But maybe, just maybe they might have a little more fun then they thought.
Madison!
**PS: Sorry for being gone soooo long! I happen to be very lazy, but I knew Julia was getting a little aggravated... Hopefully you enjoy this book should you chose to read it! Glad to be back! Should be posting again in a few days! (But don't hold me too it or you might get disappointed...)
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