Fri Mar 22: what we talked about

  • Posted March 22, 2019
  • Stock up with enough books to last you over Spring Break. Enjoy your week off!
  • #What to Read - reader recommendations to be posted during our celebration of National Library Week April 1-5
    • Also bring a bag to carry the FREE BOOKS you may choose during our Great Library Giveaway, available while they last during the same week
  • What kinds of books are on your shelves at home?
    • To Be Read pile - books you haven't yet read
    • gifts
    • read for class
    • signed by the author
    • too old to be donated to Bernie's Book Bank
    • "look pretty on my shelves"
  • Series:
    • The kind of series you can tell was written as one long story, then divided into multiple volumes
    • The kind of series you can tell was written separately
      • Neal Shusterman announced he has finished writing The Toll, the third in the Scythe-Thunderhead series
      • Ms. Tolva has put in VHHS as a possible stop on the author's fall 2019 book tour - fingers crossed!!
  • The Library Book by Susan Orlean
    • Summary: Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the role that libraries play in modern American culture.
  • My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brody Ashton, Jodi Meadows
    • Summary: Lady Jane Grey, sixteen, is about to be married to a total stranger--and caught up in an insidious plot to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But that's the least of Jane's problems. She's about to become Queen of England. Like that could go wrong.
  • My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brody Ashton, Jodi Meadows
    • Summary: You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester--and, Reader, she marries him. Or does she? Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and one orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Brontë, and supernatural investigator Alexander Blackwood are about to be drawn together on the most epic ghost hunt this side of 'Wuthering Heights.