Book Club is an elective course that focuses on complex novels and investigates them thoroughly. Students are asked to do a fairly heavy volume of reading per week and to be ready to discuss the works, in detail, in class. Some of this year's works include Huckleberry Finn, Interpreter of Maladies, The Life of Pi, The Tao of Pooh, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet.

The discussions in class are student led and have a tendency to focus on theme, plot, character development, and, often, the practical application of the lessons learned. We encourage each other to be passionate about our opinions and to back those opinions up with facts from the book.

One of the best aspects to come out of Book Club is that students explore novels that they might not otherwise choose to read. One of the most popular books this year, for example, has been The Life Of Pi . The students truly enjoyed vicarious life on a boat with a Bengal tiger and the twist that the author provides at the end. Not an easy read, The Life Of Pi required some serious comprehension and deliberate reading, both of which the class accomplished with aplomb.

Book Club encourages students to enjoy reading and gives them the impetus to explore new avenues in literature, winding down roads that they may not have taken and enjoying their journeys.