Book Club Night.
We met at a member's house in a nondescript town. Were it not for the newly resurfaced Main Street, one would have thought time looped in the past. That was what our hero in this month's book club discovered: a strange land populated by a bunch of peculiar children who lived in a time loop that brought back the same day over and over.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The book caught my attention with it's first two lines.
"I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After."
We discussed the book and its peculiarities over bowls of chili. Neither of us had any affection for Miss Peregrine. We also thought the idea of incorporating vintage photographs and weaving them into this quirky tale was brilliant.
The story could be just simply that, a journey from reality as we know it to the fantastical. Or perhaps it also spoke of inner courage, accepting one's and others' peculiarities as well as facing one's worst fear and conquering it. A member pointed out that it also touched upon whether or not concealing the truth in order to protect someone is a worthy course of action. By doing so one suppresses another's freedom to chose for himself/herself and in effect stunts the other's maturity.
If you are looking for a good and entertaining read for the month of October (this book is perfect for October), I highly recommend Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
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