Scorch Trials in the Cinema

The new Maze Runner movie comes out this week. Have you read the book yet?

Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end.
Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.

There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.
The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.

Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off.
There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive. [Blurb from Goodreads.com]

Have you picked your holiday reading yet?

Holidays are great, you get to sleep in, catch up with friends, and generally muck around. But there are always a hours here and there where you don't feel like running around, or playing games. Those bits of time where you can just curl up in the quiet and read something that takes you away for a bit.

Maybe it is something that will make you laugh, like Life in Outerspace by Melissa Keil

Something that will make you cry, like Looking for Alaska by John Green

Or just something that will get your heart beating fast because you just want to know what is going to happen next, like Bomb by Sarah Mussi

Maybe it will be something popular that you haven't read yet, like Divergent by Veronica Roth

Or maybe something more obsure, like Hold Me Closer Tiny Cooper by David Leviathan

Or an old favourite, like Matilda, by Roald Dahl

Whatever you feel like, I am sure there is something in the ILC that will catch your eye.

Book Review: As Read as Blood by Salla Simukka

Seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson keeps to herself. Living on her own, she just wants to finish high school.Until the day she finds find thousands of dollars worth of bank notes washed of blood hanging to dry in the school's darkroom...

Suddenly caught up in a world corruption and danger and the international drugs trade, Lumikki finds herself on the run from the infamous 'Polar Bear'.

Set in Finland, in winter where nighttime lasts over 18 hours, leaving less than 6 hours of light each day. With temperatures are often around -25 degrees C, meaning that getting caught in the cold is just as deadly as not escaping the killers.


The first part of a thrilling new Nordic crime series, AS RED AS BLOOD will have you on the edge of your seat until the last page is turned... and then some.

Now in the Cinema: Me, Earl and the Dying Girl

If you enjoyed The Fault in Our Stars you might also enjoy Me, Earl and the Dying Girl.

Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics.

Until Greg’s mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel.

Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia—-cue extreme adolescent awkwardness—-but a parental mandate has been issued and must be obeyed. When Rachel stops treatment, Greg and Earl decide the thing to do is to make a film for her, which turns into the Worst Film Ever Made and becomes a turning point in each of their lives.

And all at once Greg must abandon invisibility and stand in the spotlight. [Blurb from Goodreads]

Scot Gardner visiting Saint Ignatius

Australian author Scot Gardner will be visiting Saint Ignatius this Thursday and Friday. All year 7 students will have an opportunity to hear Scot talk about himself and his work before participating in writing workshops.

Scot has a lively sense of humour, and has enjoyed writing his whole life. He is most often inspired by real things, in particular the language and things said by young people to allow give his work that touch of realism.

"Write brutal, write brief." - Scot Gardner (official website).

Now in the cinema - Paper Towns

John Green's Paper Towns has been turned into a movie, and is now showing in the cinema. 

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. 

After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. 

Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew... [Blurb from Goodreads.com]

Feast Day!

Racing Spheros

Feast Day was enjoyed by one and all. In spite of the amazingly beautiful weather outside, the ILC saw its share of traffic with students enjoying gaming on the Xbox and Wii. The spheros were also out with students racing them around a track, while others played on the school MineCraft server.

MineCrafters hard at work

Outside the petting zoo, mechanical bull, sumo suits, jousting, jumping castles and obstacle course , talent show and so much more provided loads of entertainment. Congratulations to all the organisers.

Students relaxing playing Xbox and Wii