Thursday, April 12, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
Book Blind Date
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When we read about the Book Blind Date that the Maplewood Library held, we loved the idea so much that we decided to try it ourselves!To celebrate National Library Week, we will be hosting our own Book Blind Date from April 8th-14th. Stop by the Reference or Youth Services Desks to pick up a selection from our collections.
It's simple! The books are wrapped in paper, so you don't know what you are going to get. Check it out, take it home to unwrap, and read. Write a short book review telling us if you loved it or hated it. Bring the review back to us by the end of the month to be entered to win a great prize!
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Hunger Games Book to Movie Review: Warning Contains Spoilers
One of our Teen Advisory Group members wrote a review comparing the movie Hunger Games to the book. What was your take on the movie?
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review by Kendall L.
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen in a futuristic society with districts of Panem and their capitol. Every year they have a tournament called the Hunger Games. Each district has to give one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 and one boy to fight to the death with others from other districts. This year is her sister's first time going into the "reaping"(which is how the determine who is going into the games), and out of a million,on her first time joining the reaping, she gets chosen. Of course Katniss volunteers to take her place, and now she has to compete with 23 other people to return to her home in District 12.
The book was more in depth with descriptions and how everything "flowed" together compared to the movie, which left out a lot of things and had false information. In the book when Rue died ( a girl from District 11) she was in a net when Marvel ( a boy from District 1) shot a spear into her stomach, while in the the movie Katniss almost saved her when Marvel shot her. Also in the movie Rue pulled out the spear out of her stomach, and in the book her and Katniss left it.
The book and the movie maybe slightly different but other than a few more mistakes it was a good movie. It was full of passion, action, and blood!!! But if you haven't read or watched it, I would recommend reading it first, then watching. Its just better imagining in your mind what everything looks like, then seeing what others think of it too. But they were both excellent and I would read and watch it over again!!!
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review by Kendall L.
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen in a futuristic society with districts of Panem and their capitol. Every year they have a tournament called the Hunger Games. Each district has to give one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 and one boy to fight to the death with others from other districts. This year is her sister's first time going into the "reaping"(which is how the determine who is going into the games), and out of a million,on her first time joining the reaping, she gets chosen. Of course Katniss volunteers to take her place, and now she has to compete with 23 other people to return to her home in District 12.
The book was more in depth with descriptions and how everything "flowed" together compared to the movie, which left out a lot of things and had false information. In the book when Rue died ( a girl from District 11) she was in a net when Marvel ( a boy from District 1) shot a spear into her stomach, while in the the movie Katniss almost saved her when Marvel shot her. Also in the movie Rue pulled out the spear out of her stomach, and in the book her and Katniss left it.
The book and the movie maybe slightly different but other than a few more mistakes it was a good movie. It was full of passion, action, and blood!!! But if you haven't read or watched it, I would recommend reading it first, then watching. Its just better imagining in your mind what everything looks like, then seeing what others think of it too. But they were both excellent and I would read and watch it over again!!!
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