Monday, January 30, 2012

Book to Movie: Switched

Amanda Hocking sells Trylle Trilogy film rights

Let’s add another YA series to the list of potential successors to the Twilight throne: EW has confirmed a New York Times report that Amanda Hocking, the 26-year-old self-publishing phenom behind the Trylle Trilogy (which includes Switched, Torn and Ascend and chronicles heroine high schooler Wendy Everly’s entry into a paranormal world populated by beautiful trolls), has sold the film rights to the production company Media Rights Capital. Terri Tatchell, co-writer of District 9 , is reportedly already at work on adapting two out of the three novels for films and will serve as producer. - insidemovies S. Vilkomerson

Monday, January 9, 2012

Book to TV - Game of Thrones

A Game of Thrones is the 1st book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. Martin. It's been created into a HBO series some of you might has seen season I last year ,well great new season II is set to start this April.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/

The Game of Thrones is an epic fantasy novel about 700 pages deep, not for the light reader but a fantastic read. If your looking for something to sink your teeth into you should consider this series of 6. The books have recieved a top ratings from over 2K reviewers on Amazon.

Amazon: Martin's Seven Kingdoms resemble England during the Wars of the Roses, with the Stark and Lannister families standing in for the Yorks and Lancasters. The story of these two families and their struggle to control the Iron Throne dominates the foreground; in the background is a huge, ancient wall marking the northern border, beyond which barbarians, ice vampires, and direwolves menace the south as years-long winter advances. Abroad, a dragon princess lives among horse nomads and dreams of fiery reconquest.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Happy Donating

Are books taking over your house donate them for a tax deduction and help enrich the lives and imaginations of others in need. There are many ways to donate you doesn't have to be money or the coat off your back. Listed below are two ways to donate via the Mail or at a drop off center.

Mail:
Liberian Development Foundation, Inc.
6203 Pontiac St
College Park, MD 20740

A cost efficient was to mail if by using Media mail provided by the USPS, remember USP and Fedex will not mail to post boxes so use the USPS. LDF will mail you back a receipt for your donation.

Walk in:
Another great way to give is to walk in to your local GoodWill sotre and drop off books, they will write you out a receipt then and there.
http://locator.goodwill.org/?gclid=CJae-Juqua0CFcZM4AodzB1iQA

Happy Donating!!!!

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The New York Public Library Launches eBook Central

In an effort to help New Yorkers understand their Kindles, Nooks, iPads and other e-readers, The New York Public Library has launched a new free service called eBook Central. For all of you using eReaders that haven't create a public library e-account, but it on your new years resolution list because this will be a great savings. I went from spending and average of $40 a month on books to $20 or less.

Patrons can head to nypl.org/ebookcentral for detailed information on how to download the Library’s digital material - including eBooks, music and videos - on to any major device. The website will also explain how to find and access free educational apps, including the Library’s catalog app Bibliocommons.

In addition, from Jan. 4 until Jan. 13, trained reference librarians will provide in-person assistance with e-readers at both the Library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, located on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, and The Mid-Manhattan Library, located at 455 Fifth Avenue (at 40th Street). The free service will take place during specific hours from Monday to Saturday – patrons should check the website for exact schedules.

Link to this article:

http://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/2011/12/27/new-york-public-library-launches-ebook-central

First thing you'll need to do is get a New York Library card and a Pin number, you'll need to go to the library to do so. If you don’t live in New York can use your work ID to show you work in New York City.

Then use the link below to sign into the e-library

http://ebooks.nypl.org/52BD2C4D-4EEF-400C-9495-FDB19A0C2FA7/10/257/en/Default.htm

Once you are in you can start searching books in your preferred format and adding them to the Wishlist. Be sure to go into the Lending Periods section and set your default leading periods day, it can be 1, 2 or 3 weeks.

From your Wishlist you can select books to be placed in my e-holds.

When the book is available the library will e-mail you letting you know.

At that point you have 2 days to log on and download the book.

From there it will move to your my eList for you to check out.

In the My eChecks Outs there is be a link to download the books along with the Expires on date.

Happy Reading and even better Happy Saving.

Book Recommendations Spring-Summer

Studies show reading makes people happy even if the plot of what you are reading is sad, let's take a look at some books we might be reading this spring-NCReview

Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones

In a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, James Witherspoon has two families --- the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters.

Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

Strength in What Remains is an inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him. Deo arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, plagued by horrific dreams, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts. He seeks out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores. Then Deo begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing.

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book—a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday, they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go on, "Nell" sets out to trace her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search after Nell’s death that all the pieces of the puzzle are assembled.

Blue Print for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell

Elissa Schappell is not for the fainthearted. In this collection of eight revelatory, risky stories, we meet the girls that all mothers fear their daughter might become—or, to varying degrees, the girls we might have become ourselves. One turns to hate to cover her vulnerability, while another suffers from an eating disorder, in some part due to her mother's all-consuming embrace. The most shocking story follows a college coed through her days of binge drinking and blacking out during a relentless parade of frat house parties. Surprisingly, it's also the most moving. Schappell has the ability—and the guts—to cut straight through the "girls gone wild" images that inevitably throb to mind and show us the tender and often hopeful human beings that live inside these women-to-be.

Rules for Virgins by Amy Tan
On the surface, Amy Tan's Rules for Virgins is a relatively simple list of instructions that a practiced courtesan, Magic Gourd, gives her young protégée, Violet. And yet there is tragedy, heartbreak, and an uncertainty of self woven between the lines: Magic Gourd sings tragedies so well because of her own personal demons; Violet's life won't be her own until she can make enough money to pay off her debts to madam. Magic Gourd's straightforward lecture becomes more and more tender, revealing things that she probably doesn't even realize herself--that she's fond of her protégée, and that her greatest wish is that Violet will learn from Magic Gourd's own mistakes, so that Violet might rise higher.

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. ..there is also movie

It's every parent's worst nightmare to hear that there has been a shooting at their child's school. But what would you do if it was your son that committed the atrocity? Shriver's horror story is told through letters that Eva writes to her estranged husband, Franklin. It's years after their son, Kevin, murdered seven of his classmates and a teacher, and Eva painstakingly analyzes their life up to that point to try and see what went wrong: was she a bad mother? Was Kevin just an evil person? What could they have done differently? We Need to Talk About Kevin is a suspenseful read, even when you know the ending and Shriver's story will stick with you long after you put it down.

Let me in by John Ajvide Lindgvist…there is also a movie

Set in 1983, Let Me In is the horrific tale of Oskar and Eli. It begins with the grizzly discovery of the body of a teenage boy, emptied of blood. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for all the bad things the bullies at school do to him, day after day. While Oskar is fascinated by the murder, it is not the most important thing in his life. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik’s cube before, but who can solve it at once. They become friends. Then something more. But there is something wrong with her, something odd. And she only comes out at night.

As always let me know if you have already read any of them and I will remove them from the options.