Latest Additions June 28, 2010
Posted by stacey in Fiction.Tags: Latest Additions, The Reading Room
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Phew! It’s hot, it’s humid, and the library is packed full of people! I bet they’re all here trying to grab up books mentioned in a previous Latest Additions posting! Or maybe they’re grabbing up books they think might be mentioned in today’s Latest Additions? If so, then they’ll be looking for one of these titles:
Lark and Termite by Jayne Ann Phillips
Mind Scrambler by Chris Grabenstein
The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker by Theresa Serber Malkiel
The Prince of Mist Carlos Ruiz Zafon
But maybe you’ll get lucky and it’ll be you who gets here first! (Plus our air conditioning seems to be working like a treat!) So we’ll see you soon?
—Stacey
Get your Daily Prophet here! June 26, 2010
Posted by Julie in Fantasy, Uncategorized.Tags: Book news, Families, Fantasy, Harry Potter, Young Adult
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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter has opened in Universal Studios Orlando!! It looks like it an amazing experience for fans of the books (which would seem to include a great proportion of the world’s population). An interesting note is that althougth there are no doubt numerous opportunities to shop in the park, Filch’s Emporium of Confiscated Goods is the only place to buy Rowling’s books. Fun, no?
I need to start planning my trip to Florida – do you think the Floo Network operates between Cleveland and Orlando?
— Julie
Latest Additions June 21, 2010
Posted by stacey in Fiction.Tags: Latest Additions, The Reading Room
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Have you signed up for the Summer Reading Program yet? If you haven’t, you really should. I mean really, who doesn’t want to win cool prizes for something you were doing anyway? So come on it this week and sign on up people! Are you looking for a book you can read -and then use as an entry? How about one of The Latest Additions to The Reading Room?
Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
State Fair by Earlene Fowler
Claire de Lune by Christine Johnson
Seven Year Switch by Claire Cook
God Never Blinks by Regina Brett
Back Spin by Harlan Coben
A pleasantly diverse list of books, right? And that’s seven more books to read -and enter with!- in our Summer Reading Program. Not too shabby, hunh?
— Stacey
Music in motion June 19, 2010
Posted by Julie in Audio, Thoughtful Ramblings.add a comment
I was listening to Motion City Soundtrack’s latest album, My Dinosaur Life, on the way to work today and loving it – it gave me more energy than the coffee I was drinking! I also really liked the lyrics to the second track, Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help) :
Filling up on endless insights
From other people’s ugly insides.
All this bitterness is starting to grow cold
When comfort is an empty evening
Hanging on to complications.
Sometimes quick sand has a massive appeal to me
I want to be somewhere else
I think I can figure it out,
But I’m gonna need a little help to get me
Need a little help to get me.
I think I can figure it out,
But I’m gonna need a little help to get me through it
To get me through it
(from plyrics.com)
I guess the chorus was especially appealing to me right now… It just brought home how the right words at the right (or wrong) time can lift your spirits, even if just for the length of a song.
— Julie
Latest Additions June 14, 2010
Posted by stacey in Fiction, Non-Fiction.Tags: Latest Additions, The Reading Room
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I *know* I’ve mentioned, more than once, how much I don’t like the weather when it’s hot and humid. Forget how big my hair gets, forget how icky it is to move through swampy air, instead let us focus on how tired this weather can make you feel. If it weren’t so hazardous sounding, I would be tempted to try using a few toothpicks to keep my eyelids open. If I could keep my peepers popped wide? I think I’d look into reading one of these Latest Additions to The Reading Room:
The Cinderella Society by Kay Cassidy
Point Omega by Don Delillo
Triumph: Live After the Cult by Carolyn Jessop
In the Belly of the Bloodhound by L.A. Meyer
Firespell by Chole Neill
Serpent in the Thorns by Jeri Westerson
True Colors by Kristen Hannah
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
But alas, I have no toothpicks and so I must wait for a cool breeze to perk me up… But what about you? Are you ready to read? If you said yes, you should sign up for the Summer Reading program today! So many wonderful prizes are waiting to be won! Come on in and check ‘em out!
— Stacey
Radical idea – read a book! June 12, 2010
Posted by Julie in Non-Fiction.Tags: Families, Nonfiction
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Following along with the books to help kids with summertime learning, how about some books to help parents? I was researching books for parenting teens and found this blog, Radical Parenting (not as scary as it sounds). The author of the blog, Vanessa Van Petten, and her teen reviewers put together a list of recommended parenting books – I thought it was interesting to see what non-parents thought was good advice!
— Julie
Summertime, and the reading is easy… June 7, 2010
Posted by Julie in Thoughtful Ramblings.Tags: Book news, Children's Books, Current Events
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Well, not easy, but some school districts are sending home books with students to keep as school lets out. The goal is to prevent the backsliding that often accompanies the hazy days of summer. Especially for children who come from homes where economics means owning books is not possible, much less a priority. Something I’ve taken for granted in my home, where we’ve been very blessed with family and friends gifting us and also passing along their gently used copies of all kinds of wonderful worlds for my daughters to sink into. How amazing that these students will get to feel that excitment of having a book of their very own.
Read more: http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/node/341
— Julie
June 7, 2010
Posted by stacey in Fiction.Tags: Latest Additions, The Reading Room
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Woo-eee, those were some pretty awesome storms over the weekend! I’m glad to have the rain cool things down and all, but also would have been pretty great if the rain hadn’t soaked my curtains as well… It was a good reading weekend though, don’t you think? A little humidity to hide from, a bit of my niece’s birthday cake to enjoy, and a storm that didn’t take the power out, all good things! Now would you like some good things sent specifically your way? Maybe some books just added to The Reading Room would please you? Shall we give that a try?
The Map of True Places by Barry Brunonia
The Beast in the Garden by David Baron
Down to the Wire by David Rosenfelt
Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey
Salt by Maurice Gee
Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts
And? Do you see something you’d like to read? Me too!
— Stacey
