Books made into Movies

Beastly by Alex Flinn

This story is taken from the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast but is set in modern day Manhattan. I really loved the book and all the characters particularly the chat room conversations with other "monsters" and I am very intersted in seeing the movie with actor Alex Pettyfer which is coming out in March 2011!

Mockingjay

I just finished Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins and I finally can catch my breathe. From the very beginning, there were so many twists and turns, I felt like I was on a rollercoaster. Katniss, Gale and Peeta are quite a triangle in this story, more so than the other two. I definitely recommend Mockingjay but be sure to read the first two, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. We will be discussing Mockingjay at the Teen Book Club on Sept 29, from 6 - 7 pm, at the Adriance Memorial Library. Hope to see you there!

Eclipse

I just finished Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. I couldn't put it down. I am hooked! I can't wait for "Breaking Dawn". At the Adriance Memorial Library in Poughkeepsie, I am doing a Jeopardy program on the Twilight Series. It is on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 7 pm and I will be giving away Stephenie Meyer's new book "Breaking Dawn" to the winning group.

Since I have to wait till August 2nd for Stephenie Meyer's new book, I decided to read her latest new book, "The Host". It is very interesting. What are you reading?

Teen PHS Book Club

We've had a great spring for reading in the PHS Book Club. The afternoon book club has read Sold by Patricia McCormick, One Day in the Life of Ivan Desinovick by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and God Don't like Ugly by Mary Monroe. The first two tell the grusome tale of being forced away from from your family and living under terrible conditions. Sold follows a young girl who is sold to a house of prostitution and how she gets out. It is a very moving and chilling story. The last book told the tale of a young girl who is sexually abused and overcomes many obstacles.



The lunchtime bookclub has read Looking For Alaska by John Green, life in a boarding school where death caughts up with life, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, a terrific trilogy about what is important to you, being yourself and fighting for what you believe in. We also read A Great & Terrible Beauty by Libby Bray. This story took us to Victorian time in a girls boarding school where things were not always what they seemed.



We were visited by the author Michael Bostick who wrote Mou-si, Life Lessons & Thoughts set to Poetry. He talked of his experiences growing up in Harlem and in Poughkeepsie where he graduated from PHS. He was great and really shared his personal stories with the group.



I am now reading Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer, the third book in the Twilight Series. It is really a thrilling story about a girl who falls in love with a vampire and her good friend who is a werewolf. This is a book I can't put down. Read it before her new book comes out, Breaking Dawn, this August.

What Are YOU Reading now?

I am the teen program coordinator at the Adriance Memorial Library in Poughkeepsie, NY and I am starting a book blog for teens. What are you reading? Anything you would recommend?



I have just finished "A Great and Terrible Beauty" by Libba Bray. That was a great story! It is a step back in time to the Victorian age in England, but the girls certainly are not always ladylike.



Another book I recently read was "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult . It really kept me very interested and on the edge of my seat. The ending certainly had a bit of a twist but it was a good story.

Let me hear from you. What are you reading?