The Beach Club

11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
- For the past two weeks ive been reading The Beach Club by Elin Hilderbrand. This book has been something I just happened to pick up over brake and haven’t had much time to read it with all the ENGLISH homework. ;) Just kidding. So far, my plan is to continue this cycle until the book it finished. The book has been pretty decent so far, kind of slow really. But I like the way the words are displayed and how smooth they read. The chapters are long, so what I have been doing is splitting one chapter into three days of reading.
Book review: http://www.amazon.com/Beach-Club-Novel-Elin-Hilderbrand/dp/0312979649
Thank you Publishers Weekly!

Day one:
- The owner of a beach club gets letters every year from a mystery person offering to buy the beach house and hotel and pay one hefty price. The owner however, doesn’t see the value in the persons offer and every year declines it. Therese Elliott is perhaps the mom of the resort. She listens to everyone’s complaints and problems in attempt to save them from their aiking selves. Nantucket attracts many people, one in particular is Leo. His wife left his with his children as he was perusing his career. The only reason why he kept going with his life is because the docter said it was normal and what his children needed, even if that meant his son CRIED all the time. Leo, to bond with his two older sons invited them to play tenis. But they wanted to play doubles so they asked the “mom” of the resort to play with them. They will be meeting at four.
Day two:
- Mean while, Tetherese takes it upon herself to mentor Leos family. Before playing tennis though, she teaches a new girl how to clean hotel rooms. The girl just about quits because she has to stick the pinky in the toilet in order to check the temperature. Finally four oclock rolls around and they all get to playing tennis; they hardly speak a word to one another, as if they hadn’t ever talked in their entire life. During tennis hot topics come up. One son admits he is gay and the other tells Leo he isn’t interested in going to law school anymore even though he just finished his four year degree at Harvard Law School. In Leos warped way of thinking, he takes his two older sons out to dinner and tells them that if they were put together into one man… They would be Leos perfect son. Ouch right?!

Day three:
- Twenty eight years ago, in this book, was Memorial Day. The day the owners of the club found out their son died in the womb at eight months. The janitor of the hotel relived his experience of finding out his parents died, he also told us that he puked in his moms car. I wouldn’t expect anything less after finding out your parents had died. A young boy after work stopped by and had cheese and crackers with Lacy. Lacy was eighty and with in the past year and a half her husband had died in his sleep. They married late in life and that was Lacy’s excuse for not having children. Also her husband, Max, was really against adopting kids. So in the end she is lonely with out anything to her name in her eighties.