Trailer Tuesday - Fault in Our Stars

Sometimes I find music really makes a trailer. For instance, I'm really loving the music in the trailer for The Lorax. Today's book trailer for The Fault in Our Stars by John Green also has lovely music. I loved it so much that I bought it immediately after watching the trailer. Oh the power of technology!

Check out the trailer below:

The book looks like a real tear jerker, so make sure you avoid reading it on a plane/train/automobile/in public. I once made the mistake of reading a John Green book at work on my break and burst into tears. All my colleagues wanted to know what was going on with me. I've learned my lesson!

Teen Advisory Group

Saltfleet has its first Teen Advisory Group meeting tomorrow at 3:30! We'd love to have you. For more information on this great volunteer opportunity click here. If you can fill out a volunteer application form before you come, that would be great!

New Books!

Beautiful new books in the catalog! Lots of girls in gorgeous dresses which seems to be the trend lately. Check out the rest here! 

Piclits

I was looking for ideas for a poetry-type program for April (we plan in advance!) and I stumbled across this really cool website called Piclits.com.

You drag and drop words onto a photo backdrop to make poems or prose, sort of like magnetic poetry.

Cool, right?

See what you can come up with and link the results in the comments. I know there are some great writers out there!

Review: Variant by Robison Wells

Variant by Robison Wells

This book is about a boy named Benson Fisher. He has a tough life, going from foster home, to foster home.  Then he heard about Maxfield Academy. Only thinking to get out of his tough situation, Benson applied for scholarship. He answered some questions about school, exaggerated a bit about his grades, and filled in a questionnaire on his family situation and got a call the next afternoon. Little did he know that things were only about to get worse. Next thing you know, he's trapped in a school where there are no adults at all, and video cameras monitor his every move. The school is surrounded by a razor-wire fence and no one has ever escaped from. Then Benson finds out a spine tingling secret and realizes that he might be stuck there forever. This book is filled with tension and suspense and it seems really real. I would rate it 4.5 out of 5.         

~ Nida       

Waiting on Hunger Games (still!)

In today's Waiting on Wednesday, I thought I'd highlight a couple recent Hunger Games-related things...

First off, some bad news. The nail polish line that was going to happen is no more! Sad. See the details here. They look so pretty too!

But in good news, Lionsgate (the studio behind the movie) has launched a couture blog! Check out & drool over the gorgeous fashions here. The face of the blog? None other than Effie, of course!

Can you imagine wearing that to class? Gorgeous!

I can't wait for the film! Keep an eye on this blog for news about library events celebrating the launch of the film. 

Review: Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

In anticipation of the fourth and final book in the Inheritance Cycle coming out, I decided to reread all the books to refresh my memory. These books are incredibly awesome, and I would encourage lovers of the fantasy genre to read them, if you haven’t already. Everyone can enjoy these books, girls, young readers, adult readers, everyone.

Eragon finds a mysterious blue stone one day while hunting. Unsure what it is, he takes it home and keeps it. The stone hatches into a blue baby dragon, a creature that everyone in the Empire was sure had gone extinct. With the help of a strange village story-teller named Brom, Eragon learns as much as he can about the dragons of old. When he discovers that he is being hunted by their evil tyrant of a king, Galbatorix, Eragon flees his village with the dragon, which he has named Saphira, and Brom. Eragon learns that he has become part of an ancient order of Dragon Riders, who were wiped out by Galbatorix when he first came to power. Now it is Eragon and Saphira’s responsibility to use their position to help the people of the Empire rise and defeat Galbatorix. However, that will be a bit hard as there are no more living Riders to train them. Nevertheless, they must try to overthrow the corrupt government with the help of a myriad of people, from elves to dwarves to insane magicians.

~Kristen 

holy social media!

 

All that in 60 seconds! 

The library is looking at where we should be in the social media world. What do you think? Which social media sites do you use?

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Waiting on Wednesday

Today's WoW is a book I've been intrigued by since I first saw the cover. I'm waiting on Cinder by Marissa Meyer.

the premise: Cinder, as you  may guess, is a twist on Cinderella. A really cool science-fiction twist with cyborgs and androids! Here is the description from Amazon: Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.


why I'm dying to read it: I love the idea of cyborgs. Bladerunner is one of my favourite movies. Also, can we say intergalactic struggle and fobidden attraction? I'm so there.

how long I have to wait: It just came out earlier this month so any day it will be in my hot little hands! I'm first in line!

while you're waiting check out: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick . It's the book Bladerunner was based on and it's super interesting and really cool. If you're a science fiction fan, you've probably already read it but did you know it's also been published as a graphic novel? You can put a hold on volume one here.

Trailer Tuesday

In honour of the How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse program this afternoon at Saltfleet, have a book trailer for a book featuring (you guessed it): zombies!

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan is the first book in a trilogy. Check out the trailer below:

New Books!

Holy moly! Lots and lots of new books! We have an awesome new person who is taking over ordering books and she's done a great job in selecting really interesting titles that are sure to be popular. Take a look at a few of them below and then find the rest here!

Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Please welcome our newest reviewer, Lyndsey! Lyndsey brings us our first review of the year for Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor. 

Can mortal enemies fall in love- during a war?

Daughter of Smoke and Bone is about a girl named Karou raised by “monsters” called chimaera. Chimaera are the opposite of the angels, the other inhabitants of this world. Chimaera are usually a mixture of two or more creatures-such as a gazelle/bat/human. Karou was raised from an infant in the “lair” or house of one of the most powerful chimaera in the worlds- Brimstone (the tooth collecter). For years Karou had lived with him in the house (which is halfway between the chimaera world and our world) and she lived a normal life. Well there was one thing that wasn’t normal in her life- the teeth. Whenever Brimstone needed teeth delivered he sent her to get them for him- not exactly the most normal odd-job! These errands were pretty hard to hide because she was an art student in Prague and more often than not they were in places like France, San Francisco, and sometimes Canada! So one day she was in the Jemaa el-Fna (a marketplace in Morocco) and she spotted an angel and well it was love at first fight.

Meanwhile, all  around the world, black hand prints were appearing burned on doors-and only the doors that are used as portals to transport teeth to Brimstone. This may have been allarming to Karou and Brimstone especially  when all of the doors mysteriously burst into flame and Karou is left to fend for herself Karou feels even more frightened and feels the need to find her family. In order to find them and make sure that Brimstone and the few chimaera that she knows (or knew) are safe-she needs to find out who she is, and why she was brought up in the care of Brimstone and not human parents. Karou can’t do all of this alone though, and may need to seek help from the chimaera’s enemy- Akiva- the angel that she saw in the Jemaa el-Fna.

This book is a great read if you love supernatural romances  that are impossible to put down most of the time! I know that I couldn’t put it down at all!

~Lyndsey

Waiting on Wednesday

Today's book is the third in a series that I like very much: The Agency series by Y. S. Lee. The third book is called The Traitor in the Tunnel.

the premise: The Agency takes place in Victorian London and focuses on an undercover spy (or at least the closest thing Victorian London has to an undercover spy) named Mary. In the third Agency book, Mary gets her biggest assignment yet: to infiltrate Buckingham Palace.

Why I'm dying to read it: The first two books were the perfect blend of historical fiction and mystery with some romance thrown in for good measure. I know that the third installment will deliver another excellent book.

how long I have to wait: The end of February! Luckily I have lots to read until then.

while you're waiting check out: The other two Agency books! Mystery! Intrigue! Victorian romance! Sherlock Holmes is another mystery series based in Victorian London too and there are tons of adaptations of those stories (though the originals are superb).

what are you waiting on?

How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse!

Ever wondered what to do when the shambling dead rise from their graves? Come out to Saltfleet library on Tuesday January 17 at 3:30 p.m. and learn how to survive an attack of the undead!

I think it's going to be really fun and a great break from studying. We're going to see who is best equipped to survive the apocalypse, do some zombie trivia, and practice our zombie-killing aim with nerf guns! If you're in the Saltfleet area and in high school, come on out! 

But first please register by calling the branch at (905) 662-8611 so we know how many zombie killers to expect. 

Trailer Tuesday: Joy of Books!

Today's trailer is less a trailer for a particular book and more a trailer for a lot of books. If you're a bit of a book geek (or even just a stop animation geek), check out the video below for a fantastic stop motion book movie (it's under two minutes and I know you're probably putting off homework already):

I've actually been to the bookstore in the video (Type) and I'd recommend it if you're ever on Queen St. W in Toronto. It's very nicely curated and lovely for browsing.