In honor of Valentine's Day, we're featuring …
STUDENTS who LOVE THE LIBRARY(Click on titles to check availability.)
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Kristin '10
God of Beer by Garret Keizer
I read it in middle school -suggested by
my librarian- and I really enjoyed it. Its a good look at the lives of
highschoolers and how they see things. I think its a different and
interesting look at the social side of high school.
It is written by George Orwell. It is a very interesting book on
totalitarianism government.The life styles of commoners under such
government are miserable and desperate. It is very scary to imagine
living like that. It was very futuristic. It was written in the year
1949, 35 years before 1984. I feel that the author had very wonderful
imagination.
Here are several quotes that I really like:
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth"
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
Frank '09
My favorite book (of late) is Middlemarch
by George Eliot. The book is appealing because, instead ofa story of
heroes and villains, it is a story about people, and the complex
bridges they build between each other. The town of Middlemarch is
richly described and imagined and filled with delicious backstabbing,
gossip and angst.
Faith '10
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Told from the
perspective of Death, this is a fascinating story, and one of my
favourites, not simply because of its subject matter, but because of
the way in which the story is told.
I love all of the Chronicles of Narnia,
but this one is my favorite. The characters are life like and the plot
never gets boring. It's one of those books that you can't put down and
every couple of years you just have to read it again.
