Wednesday Teen Library Council - Eleni's Notes
April 20, 2010
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Whew! Things have been very busy around the Young Adult Services Department of the Carmel Clay Public Library this past week or so. I have several blog topics stacked up. I will share them all over the next few days.First I would like to thank Eleni for taking great notes during last week’s meeting of the Teen Library Council’s Wednesday Group. At that meeting we made the final plans for the TLC’s annual Pajama Party for 4th and 5th Graders, including stuffing the goody bags that you see pictured above. (Photo taken by me with my trusty iPhone.) Jamie B. later used Eleni’s notes to make the topic slips for team skits at the party. The whole party was a lot of fun! More about that in a future post.
During the Choice Picks* discussion at last week’s meeting, TLC members talked about several different books and movies. Here are Eleni’s notes:
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Ashley: Guilty Feet by Kelly Harte - Joanna Hurst breaks up with her live-in boy friend. She creates an alter ego online. There is competition between Joanna and her neighbor for the boyfriend. A hint of romance and very interesting and mysterious. A British book that shows a view into English life.
Josh: A biography of Richard Feynman - Very colorful details of his personal life.
Shawyon: “How to Train a Dragon” (movie) - Pretty good.
Zoe: “The Clash of the Titans” (movie) – not good.
Zoe: “The Airman” (movie) – Really good, her new favorite.
Jamie: The Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher – An adventure, very good.
Charlotte: Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta – A romantic adventure involving a farm boy and a novice; really, really good.
Josh: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson – Construction of the World’s Fair; tells about the actual construction (a little dull) and a prominent serial killer (very good); lots of side stories.
Zoe: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs – A journalist lives one year literally by the Bible; archaic items as well as relevant ones; grows out his beard.
Jinny: The Year of Living Biblically - Humorous and really exact details.
Jinny: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson – A girl recovers from a coma and tries to learn what has happened to her. She was put back together by her parents.
Jinny: “Brick” (movie) – Set in a high school, set in the 1930s-ish, very good.
Josh: “Why Can’t I Own a Canadian?”- An article in which a person points out instances of where biblical laws should not apply.
Ivy: Inherit the Wind a play by Jerome Lawrence – Very interesting, battle of science/Christianity.
Ivy: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – So intricate, a family in the Great Depression.
Ashley: “The Girl Who Leapt through Time” (movie) – A Japanese movie about a girl who has bad luck and she discovers that she can move through time to avoid accidents. Apparently moving through time is common; she begins to experiment with how she can adjust time. Soon things begin to happen to her loved ones.
Eleni: A Doll’s House a play by Henrik Ibsen – Very depressing and pertinent to daily life even now.
Maggie: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens – Somewhat enjoyable; difficult to read, cryptic. Pip is born poor, but gains a better life.
Charlotte: Lock and Key; The Truth about Forever, Along for the Ride – all three by Sarah Dessen. All of them are really similar, you hate the parents, something is wrong with the girl, very predictable.
Jamie S.: The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger – I kept waiting for the plot to start, it never did; a guy gets kicked out of boarding school, so he hides it and tries to discover himself.
Josh: The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer – It was bad because the author also wrote the Super Man graphic novel. Really poorly written; lots of pointless imagery, huge build up with no conclusion.
Jamie B.: Graphic novel Pride and Prejudice by Nancy Butler – Well done, but you have to have read the actual novel to understand it.
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Thanks again, Eleni, for taking notes so that everyone can see what teens around here have been reading and watching lately!
Hope
*A book becomes a Choice Pick when three or more Teen Library Council members have read it and would recommend it to other teens. Watch for a future post about the books that became Choice Picks at the TLC's April meetings!
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