The
The Archived Read Along is hosted by
Book Twirps as their March read along!
How does it work?
- Each month we will post approximately 6 books to choose from.
Participants will get to vote for two books. The book with the most
votes win. In the case of a tie, we will post another poll for the two
books. If there’s still a tie, the host(s) will choose.
- We will post the selected book at least a week before the read-along
starts so you have time to purchase, borrow, or check the book out of
the library.
- A few days before the first of the month, we will post a reading
schedule for each week. (Feel free to read ahead, just don’t spoil
anything for the rest of us).
- We will post a set of discussion questions each week. Please join in and let us know your thoughts.
- If you are a blogger, feel free to post the discussion on your blog as well. The more the merrier.
Rules:
- Respect everyone’s opinion. Reading is subjective and what one person finds brilliant, another person may hate.
- No spoilers if you read ahead.
- Have fun!
The Archived Synopsis:
Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.
Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only
Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm
in which they rest is the Archive.
Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was
twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself. Now Da is
dead, and Mac has grown into what he once was, a ruthless Keeper, tasked
with stopping often—violent Histories from waking up and getting out.
Because of her job, she lies to the people she loves, and she knows fear
for what it is: a useful tool for staying alive.
Being a Keeper isn’t just dangerous—it’s a constant reminder of those
Mac has lost. Da’s death was hard enough, but now her little brother is
gone too. Mac starts to wonder about the boundary between living and
dying, sleeping and waking. In the Archive, the dead must never be
disturbed. And yet, someone is deliberately altering Histories, erasing
essential chapters. Unless Mac can piece together what remains, the
Archive itself might crumble and fall.
In this haunting, richly imagined novel, Victoria Schwab reveals the
thin lines between past and present, love and pain, trust and deceit,
unbearable loss and hard-won redemption.
