What Did You Get From the LIBRARY?

[Josiah]

The only one of Andrew Clements's books I've read so far but didn't mention on the above list is Troublemaker. It was a good story, but I think I preferred Extra Credit. I'd like to read Frindle sometime, too.

[Adriana]

I know! We read Troublemaker here :P

[Adriana]

Just read Anya's ghost which has beautiful illustrations. It's a really great story and I liked how it played out. The lesson behind it too.

[Boekelfje]

Last week I got this :

[Josiah]

Congratulations to Katherine Applegate and The One and Only Ivan on winning the 2013 Newbery Medal today! Congratulations also to the three Newbery Honor books, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin, Splendors and Glooms by 2008 Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz and Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage.

I checked out five non-winning contenders from the 2013 Newbery class at the library today: UnWholly by Neal Shusterman, The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis, The Kill Order by James Dashner, The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech and Jake and Lily by Jerry Spinelli. I've started UnWholly already, a book I've been waiting to read for years!

[Adriana]

@Boekelfje- Wow that's a lot of books. I think some are children's classics? Peter Pan should be great.

@Josiah- I was just about to message you. I'm so surprised Wonder didn't win anything! Check out this website: http://wakingbraincells.com/ She lists a bunch of posts of winners through various awards. I am not suprised that This is Not My Hat won the Caldecott. Bomb won like two times. I haven't even heard of it.

The Mighty Miss Malone I expected to be at least a contender. I'm pretty surprised by the winners of all these awards. The One and Only Ivan makes sense and so does The Fault in Our Stars. I want to get to know these other awards so I can expect who they are going to pick for next year.

That's right! Have fun with UnWholly! I need to get it just to get it. I wonder how Shusterman is going to top Unwind.

[Josiah]

Because no shortlist for the Newbery is ever officially released, it's hard to figure which books might have finished just outside of the "money". I'll bet Wonder and The Mighty Miss Malone were seriously considered, and may have just barely missed receiving an Honor designation (after all, doesn't it seem as if everything written by Christopher Paul Curtis wins something?), but we can't know for sure in what order the non-winners finished.

An aside: by winning a Newbery Honor for Splendors and Glooms, Laura Amy Schlitz becomes the first former Newbery Medalist to win a Newbery Honor since Christopher Paul Curtis in 2008, when he won an Honor for Elijah of Buxton.

[Adriana]

Well good for Amy having that honor. I really liked her book. It was different then I was used to. Kind of Oliver Twist with a... twist. But not really. There was more puppets and magic than anything but the characters did face hardship like Oliver Twist. Actually Peter Nimble is much more like Oliver Twist than Splendors and Glooms.

[Boekelfje]

Adriana wrote: "@Boekelfje- Wow that's a lot of books. I think some are children's classics? Peter Pan should be great.

In the Library in my city you can only borrow 10 books at a time and most of the time I get to that limit ;) The thing is that they take out books sometimes just so, even if they still look good and everything so if I see something I like I borrow it immediately and not note it for the next visit. I was really looking forward to borrowing last time I went cause I know they have it, wrong, they had it :( I was quiet disappointed.
Oh and the blue books are all comic collections of Disney movies ;) but they where actually quiet some fun to read :) But I read the book last year. :) I love classics especially in children books :)

[Boekelfje]

We went to the Library today and I got:



I'm so curious about all of them. The only stupid thing is that I got in dutch and just found out(when I put them on here) that they have the english version too and it wasn't even borrowed out, ah well.

[Adriana]

10 books!? *Shudders* That's horrible. I have a fifty book limit.

Wonder is a really good book. The message it sends and different point of views were awesome. So are we going to be buddy reading The Alchemist?

I got:

[Emma]

I read a while ago. It was really cute and light. I think you'll like it!

[Boekelfje]

Yes 10 books, some other ones have 20 and my old one has that too. But maybe it isn't so bad that it is 10, cause else the Library would look really empty sometimes ;) Happily it normally only looks like that in the summer holidays, but then you would be shocked to see it trust me ;) I was first time I saw it. How long can you keep books you borrow from your library Adriana and Noelle? We can keep then 3 weeks the ones I went to as a kid was 4 weeks. In the summer holidays here you can keep books for 6 weeks.
I'm so curious how your going to like Adriana. I was thinking about asking for it for my birthday but I read so many bad reviews now that I'm a bit unsure about it.
is on my to read list too :) (not on goodreads, I don't have all of them on my list here else it would be way to long ;))
About the Alchemist I'm going to write an answer in the buddy reads topic now ;) and yes if you like that would be nice.

[Adriana]

I can keep them for about two weeks but then I can renew it six times as long as no one asks for it/ Don't you have an online system? Well I guess you wouldn't... you might not have a county like here.

I think Wildwood's going to be good. It is really long! I like that it supposedly resembles Narnia. I expect a nature/magic theme to it.

My to-read is 1,000+ books. There are so many books out there you can't help it. Noelle says she liked it so I think I will too. I love anything fairy tale-y so I'm hoping this will be a hit with me.

[Emma]

My library lets us borrow books for two weeks. @Adriana I'm glad you trust my opinion that much!! But yeah, it is really good. Fairy-tale retellings are awesome. I'm actually writing one right now. I haven't been on GoodReads that long so my to-read list isn't super expansive.

[Adriana]

Cool, how far are you writing it?

[Emma]

Well, I'm hoping to make it a novel.

[Boekelfje]

Adriana wrote: "I can keep them for about two weeks but then I can renew it six times as long as no one asks for it/ Don't you have an online system? Well I guess you wouldn't... you might not have a county like h..."

Wow 6 times? I think we can renew like 3 times one time for free and then you have to pay for it. Also only if no one asks for it. Do you have to pay for reserving a book? We do so I don't do it so often.
What do you mean with an online system? Well they have a website where you can see the books and also log in to renew and stuff, but it doesn't always works so good. So sometimes you renewed something and still have to pay for being late cause the system had a problem again, that is super stupid.

[Josiah]

If there's ever a problem with my library's computer system like the one you describe, they always give the patron the benefit of the doubt. I've had overdue fees waived more than once because of oversights of the system, which is nice. They never expect us to pay for their mistakes.

[Adriana]

My librarians do the same thing if there is a mistake with the system. I didn't have to pay. Did you explain the situation?

@Noelle- For what ages? (novel I think adult) What fairy tale are you retelling?

[Josiah]

Just yesterday, I checked out Insurgent by Veronica Roth from the library. It may have been the most popular book of 2012, judging by the reception Veronica Roth has received when she has come to Anderson's Bookshop. She visited on three separate occasions last year, and each time attracted hundreds of readers eager to meet her and get their books signed. I'll bet the signing line for her events lasted several hours, even if the store took a hurry-up approach.

[Emma]

Adriana wrote: "My librarians do the same thing if there is a mistake with the system. I didn't have to pay. Did you explain the situation?

@Noelle- For what ages? (novel I think adult) What fairy tale are you re..."

It's for YA, because I love YA novels. I'm retelling 3 different fairy tales: Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty. The book rotates around the POVS of three girls- Tamara, Annabelle, and Cameron.

[Adriana]

Josiah wrote: "Just yesterday, I checked out Insurgent by Veronica Roth from the library. It may have been the most popular book of 2012, judging by the reception Veronica Roth has received when she has come to A..."

Hope it's good and doesn't suffer from the dreaded sequel syndrome.

[Adriana]

Noelle wrote: "Adriana wrote: "My librarians do the same thing if there is a mistake with the system. I didn't have to pay. Did you explain the situation?

@Noelle- For what ages? (novel I think adult) What fairy..."

That's a good idea. I don't know about everyone else but when done right I prefer multiple POV's. Is it set in the modern time?

[Emma]

Yes. All the girls have magical powers and are working together to defeat three evil witches who are trying to take over the world. There's a lot of action in it.

[Adriana]

Noelle wrote: "Yes. All the girls have magical powers and are working together to defeat three evil witches who are trying to take over the world. There's a lot of action in it."

Ooh! Sounds really cool (:

[Josiah]

Adriana wrote: "Hope it's good and doesn't suffer from the dreaded sequel syndrome. "

Or, even worse, the doldrums often said to affect middle novels of trilogies. With no solid beginning point and usually no definitive conclusion, middle novels are notorious for leaving readers unsatisfied, or at least not living up to the quality of the first and third books. The most significant example in my experience of a trilogy's middle novel bucking this trend is The Scorch Trials by James Dashner, which I consider to have been the best of all four Maze Runner books.

[Adriana]

Josiah wrote: "Adriana wrote: "Hope it's good and doesn't suffer from the dreaded sequel syndrome. "

Or, even worse, the doldrums often said to affect middle novels of trilogies. With no solid beginning point an..."

I totally agree. I just got Scumble so I hope it works out. I would be devastated if it doesn't.

[Adriana]

♥iDevourBooks♥ *Sonic~Obsessed* wrote: "Wow, I have WAY too many to list because I have 27 books currently rented out from the library and 3 books from the E-library."

I don't have as much out as you because I can only read so much! You can just list the ones you recently got out (:

[Adriana]

I just got:

[Josiah]

Adriana wrote: "I totally agree. I just got Scumble so I hope it works out. I would be devastated if it doesn't. "

The Savvy books are different because each novel is a self-contained story. It isn't like one giant book broken up into three volumes, as is the case for the Divergent trilogy, so the challenges of creating a compelling middle novel of a trilogy aren't a factor in Scumble.

[Josiah]

I just checked out Kindred Souls by Patricia MacLachlan and Wonder by R.J. Palacio a few hours ago. Both books were eligible contenders for the 2013 Newbery awards. I was surprised Wonder was available, as popular as it has been at my library.

[Adriana]

You are going to really love Rose in Vampire Academy. The second book was great too.

[Josiah]

I checked out The Art of Miss Chew by Patricia Polacco, Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver and The Boy on Cinnamon Street by Phoebe Stone. Phoebe Stone is a new author to me, but her books have been talked about favorably, and The Boy on Cinnamon Street was even bandied about as a possible contender for the 2013 Newbery awards; therefore, I thought I'd give her a try.

[Josiah]

I checked out What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt and Junie B., First Grader: Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten (and Other Thankful Stuff) by Barbara Park today. What Came from the Stars is a different sort of literary venture for Gary D. Schmidt, but if anyone can build a compelling and involving fantasy in less than three hundreds pages, he would be the author. Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten is Barbara Park's first new regular Junie B. Jones book in several years, and I've really been looking forward to reading it! There are times, I have found, when nothing but a Barbara Park book will do.