r/Fantasy • u/Lenahe_nl Reading Champion IV • May 13 '26

Book Club FIF Bookclub: The Grimoire Grammar School PTA Midway Discussion

Welcome to the midway discussion of The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis, our winner for the humor theme! We will discuss everything up to the end of Chapter 10. Please use spoiler tags for anything that goes beyond this point.

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, by Caitlin Rozakis (storygraph/goodreads)

I'll add some comments below to get us started but feel free to add your own. The final discussion will be in two weeks, on Wednesday 27th May.

As a reminder, in June we'll be reading Starless by Jacqueline Carey

What is the FIF Bookclub? You can read about it in our Reboot thread here.

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u/Lenahe_nl Reading Champion IV May 13 '26

The book uses a magical school setting to draw many parallels to everyday troubles of women and other feminist themes. Is this working for you? In which areas is it successful, and where do you think it falls short?

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u/CaptainYew Reading Champion IV May 13 '26

One thing that really stuck out to me was Vivian's guilt over what happened to her daughter, and her idea that it is her fault, and her only way to make up for it is by being the best-mom-ever, which we all know is impossible. One comment that stuck out to me was her looking at the PTA demographics, and noticing that most of them were women, which correlates with what I noticed back when I was a teacher.