Misadventures of the Monster Librarian

Feeling like I haven't been writing much lately because I've been so damn busy. Which is a good thing. I've been: Finalizing Summer Reading at work (our Kick-Off's this weekend!!), program begins Monday! Having nightmare about the aformentioned Playing softball (our team's terrible! This weekend we lost 18-3, an improvement of the previous weeks 25-3) Traveling all over God's green Earth: Indiana (camping), Michigan (Godchild's Baptism), Cleveland area (visit to my A3's house to see my niece and chubby baby nephew) And reading TONS. Particularly reading tons of YA lately, which is why I wanted to share what I've read and enjoyed lately! The Maze Runner series by James Dashner: YA dystopian genre, a trilogy with the fourth book acting as a prequel to The Maze Runner. I am reading them in the order pictured and am about 1/4 of the way into Death Cure. We Were Liars , E. Lockhart: I picked this up because John Green gave it a stellar review on...

Prairie Dawn has done an AWESOME job of bringing a teen base back to the Library--a great group of teens who are actually asking us to do things like a Teen Book Group twice a month and a Teen Advisory Group, and more teen activities. And holy cats! It's great! They're also giving P.D. and I loads of book suggestions, so thought I would share these really fun and absorbing books by Kenneth Oppel in a DOUBLE BOOK REVIEW! In This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein , twin brothers Victor and Konrad Frankenstein and their beautiful cousin Elizabeth lead a charmed life: wealth, a loving family, and their family chateau, of which they know every inch...or so they thought. In discovering a hidden Dark Library, and even against his father's forbidding, Victor is drawn back to the place and a book which contains a recipe for an Elixir of Life. With the help of the others and the brothers' best friend Henry, the teens set off on a quest that may just pro...