Page 64 - Herzlia HS Magazine 2021
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“Life is too short to read a three novels by mystery
bad book” - James Joyce writer Agatha Christie, and
the meeting doubled up as a
With this message in mind, a brilliantly executed (excuse
group of high school the pun) murder mystery
learners made up of Ethan night, in which all suspected
Myers, Leah Benjamin, Layla that Leah Benjamin had
Musikanth and Jonathan gone on a reckless killing
Querido took the initiative to spree, but a spectacular
start a book club at Herzlia. twist revealed that the real
With the help of Ms murderer was the friends we
Salkinder and Ms Schwartz, made along the way. The
the first meeting was held Christie books we read were
on Tuesday the 13th of April. ‘And Then There Were
The first book we discussed None’, ‘Death on the Nile’
was ‘Fahrenheit 451’ by Ray and ‘Murder on the Orient
Bradbury, a dystopian novel Express’, and it was great fun
about a society in which to discuss how our theories
books are banned and and predictions on the
firemen are employed to books differed from the
burn them - the irony is not actual endings. For our third
lost on us in choosing this as choice, we decided to pick
our first book! For our ‘The Book Thief’ by Marcus
second meeting, we selected Zuzac,
