The library is closed today as the librarian is away on the Silver Duke of Edinburgh Expedition.
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
New Books in the Library – The Memory Book by Rowan Coleman
I seem to have a sub-theme this week of books that make me cry! The Memory Book is about a woman suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease, which sounds dreadfully depressing, but the book is a rather wonderfully uplifting book about love and family.
The name of your first born.
The face of your lover.
What would happen if your memory of these began to fade? Is it possible to rebuild your life?
Raise a family?
Fall in love again?
When Claire begins to write her Memory Book she already knows that this scrapbook of mementoes will soon be all her daughters and husband have left of her. But how can she hold onto the past when her future is slipping through her fingers…?
New Books in the Library – All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
All the Bright Places is the story of a complicated romance between two broken teenagers. It is a heart-stopping read for lovers of John Green and Rainbow Rowell. Even the playlist is beautiful! Click on the cover to listen…
Theodore Finch wants to take his own life.“I’m broken, and no one can fix it.”Violet Markey is devastated by her sister’s death.“In that instant we went plowing through the guardrail, my words died too.”They meet on the ledge of the school bell tower, and so their story begins. It’s only together they can be themselves…“I send a message to Violet:‘You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.’“You’re so weird, Finch. But that’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me.”But, as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. How far will Violet go to save the boy she has come to love?
Ten reasons to read Paper Towns by John Green
Blog post by Mal Pleasant.
1. John Green (author of TFIOS) may only write the same story over and over again but he writes it well, and Paper Towns is a great example of his teenage fiction abilities.
2. If you’re still reeling over how depressing TFIOS was, good news! This book isn’t anywhere near as soul destroying!
3. ROADTRIP!
4. Paper Towns is an interesting deconstruction of the familiar yet outdated concept of the manic pixie dream girl.
5. This book features the phrase “The world’s largest collection of black Santas” numerous times and it never gets less funny.
6. I like Walt Whitman and The Song of Myself is a wonderful poem.
7. Paper Towns is a fantastic mystery, featuring the search for a missing person desperate not to be found and the people desperate to find her.
8. It opens with children finding a dead body, followed by a string of the most elaborate pranks you will probably read.
9. Margo’s dog has the best name ever conceived.
10. There’s something about a film coming out of something? I doubt that’s why Mrs Vennall chose this week to plug the book… Right? (And Natt Wolf is a pretty great actor).
Book of the Week – Paper Towns by John Green
This week’s Book of the Week is John Green’s Paper Towns – so much better than the film!
The blurb says:
The thing about Margo Roth Spiegelman is that really all I could ever do was let her talk, and then when she stopped talking encourage her to go on, due to the facts that
1. I was incontestably in love with her, and
2. She was absolutely unprecedented in every way, and
3. She never really asked me any questions…
Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo from afar. So when she climbs through his window to summon him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help but follow. But the next morning, Q turns up at school and Margo doesn’t. She;s left clues to her disappearance, like a trail of breadcrumbs for Q to follow.
And everything leads to one unavoidable question:
Who is the real Margo?
Film of the Book – Paper Towns, by John Green
New Books in the Library – Young Knights of the Round Table by Julia Golding
Humans are the enemy!
That’s what Rick’s been taught to believe by the Fey Folk who stole him. Taken to the magical realm of Avalon, he’s been trained – alongside other kids like him – into an elite force of warriors.
When rumours start that a new generation of knights are re-forming the Round Table to attack Avalon, the Fey entrust Rick with a mission to go to Earth, find the knights, and stop them.
Simple, right?
Well, not exactly… No training could prepare him for the shock of being a modern teenager. And when he discovers that the Fey have been lying to him, Rick has to ask: if human’s aren’t the enemy – who is?
We also have the sequel – Pendragon – in the library. Look for them on the display by the library door.
New Books in the Library – The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
The Infinite Sea is the second book in the 5th Wave series by Rick Yancey.
How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
Cassie Sullivan and her companions lived through the Others’ four waves of destruction. Now, with the human race nearly exterminated and the 5th Wave rolling across the landscape, they face a choice: brace for winter and hope for Evan Walker’s return, or set out in search of other survivors before the enemy closes in. Because the next attack is more than possible – it’s inevitable.
No one can anticipate the depths to which the Others will sink – nor the heights to which humanity will rise…
New Books in the Library – Ministry of Pandemonium by Chris Westwood
I have a bit of a partiality for books set in an alternate London, and this one has mystery and demons and strange happenings in graveyards as well!
Ben Harvester sees what no one else can… A cobbled alleyway – a place where it’s always night – hidden behind a crack in the wall.
Mr October, a man of many faces and secrets, knows Ben has a unique gift. He sets out to recruit Ben to a top-secret, highly classified Ministry department – to help in an eternal war against an unspeakable enemy.
And so Ben begins to understand just how great and deadly his gift may be, and why it puts him and everyone he loves in grave danger…
Children’s Laureate
The new Children’s Laureate has just been announced – Chris Riddell, author and illustrator, will be taking over the post from Malorie Blackman. Chris Riddell is the author of the Goth Girl books, which we have in the library and he has illustrated many popular books by other authors (Neil Gaiman, Paul Stewart). He drew this fabulous cartoon showing all the Children’s Laureates so far to celebrate his appointment, and he has drawn up a five point plan which is well worth a look! Click on the image to go to the Children’s Laureate website and find out more.