New Books at the Library!

We've got a few new books in the SPL YA section! Come by and check one out for the holiday season!

The Sky Inside by Clare B. Dunkle

Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson

100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson

The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter

The Dream Merchant by Isabel Hoving

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson

The Living Green Series with titles such as Green Transportation, Pollution, and Durable Goods.

The Library's holiday hours are: OPEN December 19, 20, 22, 27, 29, 30, 31 and January 2 and 3.
(This means [obviously] the Library will be CLOSED December 23-26 and January 1, as well as being closed on Sundays, which is normal.)

Have a lovely break!

Happy Reading,
--Anna, the YA Librarian

Book Review: Brisingr

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

WARNING: if you are considering reading this review, then know that it contains spoilers from the series and a few small (though you may consider them large) spoilers from the actual book.



Brisingr, the third book in the Inheritance Series starts off with Eragon and Roran at Helgrind, the home of the Ra'zac, with Eragon and Roran about to attack Helgrind and attempt to defeat the Ra'zac and rescue Katrina. The story that follows is a very good one, although to me it seemed very different than the previous books at first; but later on in the book it became more Inheritanceish. (my congratulations to the first person to mention something in a conversation and call it Inheritanceish.) There was one chapter in the book in which more secrets are revealed than in (I'm pretty sure) any other chapter in the series so far, however, I can only tell you that it is late on in the book and that if I told you any of it you would skip ahead to it, if you have a copy of it, so I will not reveal anything of it.

WARNING SPOILER ALERT ABOUT ENDING AHEAD

The final battle (of this book) was not anything like I thought it would be, there was a shade created by three of Galbotorix's magicians (well I guess you could say two because one of them turned into a shade) and Eragon and Arya had to fight him. This shade, however, was much more powerful than Durza and posed quite a challenge to Eragon and Arya. I will reveal one more thing in this review and that's IT don't ask for more.

WARNING LAST SPOILER AHEAD

Oromis and Gleadr leave Du Weldenvarden. Enough said.

Closing Comments

Brisingr is a wonderful book and I highly recommend that you read it (if you haven't read Eragon and Eldest, read them first). Christopher Paolini has wrote an excellent series and I can't wait for book four.

Score

9.4 out of 10

--The Excellent Eli

Books To Movies Coming Soon

Read the books first!!!

I feel very strongly about this.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

-coming out Nov. 7th, limited (but read it anyway)

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

_coming out Nov. 21st

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

-coming out Dec. 19th

Marley & Me by John Grogan

-coming out Dec. 25th

*We have all of these at the library; I've read three out of four and can recommend them.

Book Review: Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging

The title has quite a bit of the main points down—therefore, if a wild Scottish housecat the size of a small Labrador, Brit-preppy teenager girliness, and snogging (“kissing” to the un-English) are not your thing, you would probably would do well to avoid this book, which is the first in a series starring Georgia Nicolson, the teenaged Brit-preppy, boy/makeup/fashion-crazy girl in question. The books that are out right now besides this one are On the Bright Side, I’m the Girlfriend of a Sex God and Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas.

A fourteen-year-old girl whose shallow superficiality and lack of brains is somehow appealing on the humor front while being utterly repulsive, Georgia Nicolson worries about many important things. Due to her concerns, she has many safety precautions. For instance, in order not to spread out her ginormous shnozz, she tries not to smile when she finds that there is no way to smile without spreading out her ginormous shnozz and horrifying the world.

All the while as she finds “genius” solutions to “horrible problems”, she attends what she knows as “Stalag 14”, or “school”, where she whiles away the hours by bugging Miss Wilson (a sorry religious education teacher with an even sorrier 70s hairdo), “Skinny”—I mean, Miss Simpson (an overweight, horrible…), her other teachers, and the grouchy old caretaker, who has some secrets to hide that would be absolutely scandalous if found. Georgia also spends time sneaking off to go shopping and gazing and daydreaming after “fit-looking” guys, that is, what Americans would call “guys that are like totally hawt”.

A great read for when you need to laugh or snort at someone or something without getting into trouble, it may or may not be your kind of book, depending on how you prefer to give vent to these emotions.
After all, to tell the truth, the only reason I picked this book up is because I wanted to see how bad a book called Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging could be.

--The Superb "Non-Brit-preppy person"

City of Ember--going to the movie

Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Why are we taking pictures again?

Humoring the librarian

City of Ember comes out in theaters tomorrow!

For those of you who've read The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (and if you haven't, you should because it's muy entertaining), the movie version comes out in theaters tomorrow, October 10. Library bookclub groupies are going to venture out into the sunlight on Saturday, October 11, to see the movie at the 2:20 pm showing. Hopefully, it won't be a let-down.

http://www.cityofember.com/

Hello Friends

The point of this blog is for you to have a space in which you can talk about the books you're reading, or see what other people think of the books they're reading. Liked it? Hated it? Not sure? Send your "reviews" (they don't have to be anything fancy or grammatically correct) to yabookreviewsSPL@yahoo.com and I'll post them on the blog. Include you're first name, the title and author of the book you're reviewing, and your thoughts. If you want to, you can also include a picture of yourself (nothing inappropriate, please!) with or without a book.

A couple of review rules:

1. Don't use any offensive language or talk in detail about any offensive material, even if the book you're reviewing does.

2. Respect people and their posts.

3. The book you review must be appropriate for YAs--no little kid books!

4. I have the right to toss out your review if I don't think it deserves to be posted (but I don't see this happening very often).

Occasionally, I might stick in my own review (not too often, I promise) as well as any cool book news or "new books at the library" announcements.

Happy Reading!

Your friendly YA librarian,

Anna Ruhs