This is War . . . Chocolate War

True confession:

I have never read The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier.

Or, if I have, I’ve forgotten it. Also? Sometimes I get it confused with another book I haven’t read, A Separate Peace by John Knowles.

I’ll give you all a moment to recover from that.

Back? You OK? Need a glass of water?

Talking about this with Kelly Jensen of Stacked and Leila Roy of Bookshelves of Doom led to the obvious:

I needed to share my secret shame with the world, and I needed to fix it and finally read The Chocolate War.

And as long as we were going to do this, why not make it a thing?

So, it’s now a thing, with a graphic and everything!

Come join The Chocolate War : A Read & Blog Along from May 12 to May 19. Of course, there is a hashtag: #ChocWarRA

I’m still not sure what exactly I’ll be doing that week. Perhaps my chapter by chapter reader’s response, like I did with Frankenstein? Maybe a review of The Chocolate War and it’s sequel, Beyond the Chocolate War? Maybe a review of the 1988 film, which stars the other guy from Weird Science.

Join us! Pretty much, pick anything something how related to The Chocolate War. Like me, read it for the first time; or reread it and see if it’s what you remember. Of maybe look at books that reference The Chocolate War, like Leslie Stella’s Permanent Record. You get the idea.

Kelly and Leila are also blogging about this. This is open to everyone; hopefully this post is early enough to give you time to read the blog and plan a post. We’ll also have posts that you can leave a comment to link to your posts.

Hope to see your posts in May!

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