Book club 2026
Adol D – Adol pre-ECPE classrooms, Kaplanon 12
Time to read!
“Books are a uniquely portable magic,” as Stephen King once said and our Book Club proved this right just once again!
This year, the Book Club did not simply ‘house’ two books. It travelled through time into a world where a single cup (or even sip) of coffee is enough to bridge past and future. Through Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, we followed characters who dared to return to the past (or travel to future), not to change it, but to feel it again only more deeply and more truthfully this time!
Then, we ventured into the uncharted depths of adolescence, where identity feels fragile and ever-shifting. With Restart by Gordon Korman, we experienced a quiet reawakening of the self and a journey of rediscovery, where forgetting who you were may be the only way to discover who you can truly be(come).
A journey through memories and second chances, through shadows and light, where every story leaves something of us behind and takes with it something we didn’t know we were searching for… or perhaps something we didn’t know we already had.
What would you do if you couldn’t remember who you were?
Would you rediscover yourself?
Would you travel in time if you knew you couldn’t change anything?
Our students shared their reflections on the questions raised, drawing inspiration from each book to write their own stories, exploring people, emotions, and themes such as empathy, regret, forgiveness, and second chances. They brought scenes to life through performance, tweaked’ the stories they read, and even created alternative endings, with a plot twist.
No last page of a book is ever its end... Every book is just the starting point for the reader’s imagination. So, our student-readers let their imagination run wild! They created comics, alternative book covers, filled with symbolisms for each character, posters, trivia games, characters’ portraits and of course their own social media posts!
We hope to see you again in next year’s Book Club – your favourite book may very well be the next one you read.
“Read, read, read.”, William Faulkner
