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Got Guitar Hero?

Yesterday I played Guitar Hero II for about 4 hours. It was awesome. I was wondering, do you guys/girls play Guitar Hero? Would you like to play it at the library? FYI: The library is about to purchase DDR equipment! So exciting! The first DDR program at the library will be happening Monday, January 22nd, at 7:00 PM and is for Junior High TAB (grades 7-8). The following month, the library will host a DDR evening for High School TAB. Start practicing!

Please comment on how much you want to play video games at the library!

GAAAH!

A certain librarian in Illinois is very excited that Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice books are going to be made into a movie. Right now, it's called "The Alice Movie," and Luke Perry is slated to play Alice's father, and Penny Marshall is going to play Alice's teacher Mrs. Plotkin. There may even be a SERIES of Alice films.

Only a few more days until the final Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book comes out!

In the meantime, check out this article in the New York Times today about Ann Brashares, her husband, and her house.

Am I a slow librarian or is this somewhat recent news

Josh Schwartz, the creator and executive producer of the canceled The O.C. is going to be adapting and directing John Green's awesome "Looking for Alaska," last year's Printz winner. I can't wait to see it! I already knew he was working on developing the book series Gossip Girls for a tv show. He sure has a lot on his plate, a lot of really fun work!

Breaking News

Okay, not the real kind, but I just found out that The O.C. is officially over. How do you feel about this? (Sound off in the comments section!) I love and own the first season on DVD, watched the second, missed most of the third due to a timing conflict with "Everwood," but I've been trying to get into the current (final) season. Did the show get worse as it progressed? Surely. The brilliant, witty lines and scenarios of season one were short-lived as the show went on, but I still find myself endeared to the characters, even as they become caricatures of themselves.

UPDATE: The CW might pick up the show?!?

Book Review - Life As We Knew It, by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Don’t you just hate it when your teachers decide to give you assignments on the same topic but don’t allow you to pass in the same thing for all of the classes? Pennsylvania teen Miranda’s knows that feeling. A meteor is scheduled to hit the moon one Wednesday night, and three of her teachers, including her French teacher, want her to write up an assignment on it. This was Miranda’s biggest worry and annoyance until the meteor actually hits the moon and, to the surprise of scientists all over the world, brings it a bit closer to the earth. The trivialities that consumed Miranda’s diary – Life As We Knew It is written in diary form – are replaced by concerns for basic survival, while tsunamis wreak havoc across the globe and life as they knew it changes forever. It’s difficult to review this book because so much of what happens needs to be revealed as you read the book. Life As We Knew It is in turn suspenseful, depressing, hopeful, horrifying, and inspiring. Like The Rules of Survival, this book is about a teenager trying to make it, but at least in Nancy Werlin’s book, the whole world wasn’t thrown into question. Cut of from communication for most of the book, Miranda and her family make a concerted effort to make it, but make it until what? They can only guess and hope.