May 20, 2013
Cutting Edge: The Diviners by Libba Bray I’ve been a sometime fan of Libba Bray who wrote the awesome Gemma Doyle Trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty starts this series) that features a girl with special powers trying to cope with the death of her mother in 1895, but also wrote the not-so-awesome Beauty Queens [...]
May 6, 2013
Gotta Love the Nonfiction Section Avid novel readers often cringe at the use of the word “non-fiction,” but it’s not all history books and technical manuals if you know where to look. Today’s haul contains the Milk Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook by Christina Tosi, How to Make Books: Fold, Cut & Stitch Your Way to a [...]
May 3, 2013
Good Thing Mila Kunis Doesn’t Have Any Chin Warts Besides having the ruby slippers on lockdown, Warner Brothers owns the copyright to the Wicked Witch of the West’s iconic chin wart. When making Oz the Great and Powerful, they also had to stay away from the familiar shade of green that people associate with the [...]
Apr 19, 2013
The Ruby Slippers Were Not Red In fact, L. Frank Baum described the Wicked Witch’s shoes as silver, a metallic magic shoe that held the power of the dead witch inside. Glinda the Good Witch gives them to Dorothy in hopes of aiding her in her quest to go home to Kansas. Gregory Maguire’s Wicked describes the [...]
Apr 11, 2013
Theodora’s Name Could Have Been Inspired By Gregory Maguire In the movie Oz the Great and Powerful, Theodora is the name of the character we know of as the Wicked Witch of the West. Where did this name come from? It could have been inspired by Gregory Maguire’s book Wicked. Since L. Frank Baum refers to the [...]
Apr 9, 2013
You can get that at the public library?! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this phrase. Yes, you can get audiobooks on CD from the library. Mmhmm, I got this awesome cookbook from the library. Sure, libraries have all kinds of movies and music you can check out. Most of the time, [...]
Apr 3, 2013
Theodora Would Approve This week’s winner will get a voodoo style keychain depicting the Wicked Witch of the West in all her green glory, riding a broom. Use it for your keys, attach it to your backpack, hang it from your rear view mirror and watch her fly back and forth as you weave through [...]
Mar 30, 2013
Literature of Oz The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is a beautiful series of children’s books that gave the world of literature a fantasy world they had never seen before. It is not the standard kind of fantasy with elves and dragons, yet it did not fit in the genre of fairy tales [...]
Mar 13, 2013
Cutting edge: Hourglass by Myra McEntire This doesn’t seem like a time travel book right away. In fact, when seventeen year old Emerson started seeing things that were not really there, I thought it was going to be a ghost story. In the style of M. Night Shyamalan’s Sixth Sense, Emerson questions her sanity when she [...]
Feb 27, 2013
The birthday and the day many libraries celebrate Doctor Seuss is March 2nd! It’s coming up and here are a few ways you can celebrate the wonderful children’s literature by Theodor Seuss Geisel. Doctor Seuss Craft This inexpensive craft idea requires a clean baby food jar, thread, a paperclip, a paper fish, and some magnets. Have [...]
