Neat Happening @ Denver Library This Weekend!!

Cereal Saturday:

 Pilot Project Saturday, October 3, 8 a.m.-noon.
Central Library, Level B2 Conference Center 

 Calling all kids! And that means all grown up kids, too, who love watching Saturday morning cartoons while devouring a big bowl of cereal. Denver Public Library is hosting this tribute to the days of ‘yore’ youth – we’ll be screening great cartoons from the 60’s right up through to the new millennium. Lots of fun retro stuff. And we’ll serve it up with a cereal bar of fun, nostalgic cereals – and healthy choices, too! But it gets even better for the real kiddos in the audience.

Have homework that you need help with? Working on a project for school that is lacking good resource materials? Our reference librarians will be on hand to help with any homework or research project needs you have for school.

So, yes, Moms and Dads – you are reading that right. Bring the kids and their research needs, and while you are feasting on Count Chocula and watching The Pink Panther, your mini-me can get some research assistance.

This Saturday event is a test run and may return in the future! Free and open to the public.

Some Weekend Humor

#WhatdoestheFoxSay ?

Posted by Scrappy the Doxie on Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Yes, Don't Stay Up Late. In Fact ... Go To Bed Early.

NOT impressed with R.L. Stine's Don't Stay Up Late.  Not at all.

I've read a variety of Stine's works through the years.  Some are scarier than others and some are a bit on the weird side, but this novel?  This novel was all mixed up!  Over-protective parents = fatal car crash = hallucinations = monsters = no, not really monsters = yes, monsters = friendships questioned = murders = who is the monster?  I thought "so-and-such" was = confusion ... YES, CONFUSION!!!  On the part of the reader!  What in the world is going on???

I will admit, at one point I decided to stop reading.  Instead I moved to skimming through the pages.  Then, skimming became even too much for me and I moved to glancing here and there and then reading the last pages as a follow-up.

My "official" recommendation?  Try one of R.L. Stine's other books.  He does have many good ones out there.  I promise.  

It's Almost Here!!

I cannot believe how close we are to the beginning of the school year!  Yikes!!  At least all of you still have a week and a half to sleep in, hit the pools, or take in an afternoon movie.  Skinner staff officially returns this THURSDAY!!!

That being said, I have just downloaded a whole bunch of books to read and (hopefully) review before your year actually starts!  Here they are ...

 

     

  By the way ... have you seen the preview for the upcoming R.L.Stine movie????  Looks creepy and a bit funny.

Classics To Try

Alright ... I get it ... while there is only a few weeks left, it is still summer vacation.  All you probably want to do is sleep in ... hit Water World or Elitches ... hang with your friends ... maybe even take in a movie or two.  Books are probably pretty low on many of your lists.  BUT just in case ... just on the off chance you are thinking, "Hmmm.  I'd really like to read a book and not just any book, but perhaps a classic of some sort," here is the first AMAZING - MUST READ classic book to add to your list!!

Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.  This is truly a great read; HOWEVER, be sure to pick up the abridged edition.  When I first read Hugo's novel I called my sister and asked her to read it as well (always better to read with a friend so you can talk about the book and the characters).  She was having a real difficult time getting into the story and I couldn't figure out why.  Come to find out she was reading the original version which had lots and lots and lots of descriptions in the opening pages and chapters ... descriptions that I had only gotten a glance of as I was reading the shortened version. Hah!  Well, maybe not "hah," but I will admit I am glad I wasn't bogged down with all those words so I could jump into the meat of the story!

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame follows several characters whose lives are interwoven by ... fate?  destiny?  the musings of an author on a given day?  Let's just say the characters range from a priest who really isn't a good guy; a guy who looks all big and bad and scary on the outside, but is actually a good guy; a girl who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; and a cathedral ... a massive, beautiful, breathtaking cathedral that sits within the city of Paris, casting its shadow down on all who visit.  The story isn't a happy one.  Not in any shape or form.  But don't let that dissuade you from taking a chance with this tale.  Although the characters do not receive their "happily ever after," some do receive justice and a chance to become more than they thought they ever could.

On a personal note,I was really lucky this summer as I had the chance to actually visit the Notre-Dame Cathedral!  Oh, it is spectacular - a must see for everyone who comes to Paris, France.  Be sure to take the walk up to the towers ... all 400 steps UP and all 400 steps DOWN.  Agh!  Our legs were wobbly jello after that walk!

Wasn't really a horror book ... kind of disappointed

So, I was reading that horror book, you know the one I said I was going to read even though I. DO. NOT. DO. HORROR. and ... it wasn't actually a horror book. It dealt with vampires and such, but nothing scary at all. Honestly,  I am a bit bummed. As such, I am going to try again. Yep. I will find a different horror story (one with real scares) to read and report back to you asap.

I. DO. NOT. DO. HORROR.

I was scarred as a young child.  Yes, I was.  Emotionally scarred.  By my father.  By my father's love for horror stories.  Yes, indeed.  Horror stories and I DO NOT get along in any way, shape, or form.  Nope.  Not. At. All.

BUT, because my goal is to recommend ALL TYPES of books I am putting myself on the line for YOU!  I have picked up a scary book and I'm about to dive in and immerse myself into the gory, sickening details that will probably cause nightmares for the remainder of these summer days.

Just remember, I'm doing this for YOU!!

I'll be back in a few days ... hopefully still sane and functioning, to write my review.  *eek*