Musser Teen Blog

Make Wave!

2010-04-11T18:12:00.000-07:00

The Teen Summer Reading schedule for summer 2010 is up now! Check it out and get your ideas churning! Visit us here!
http://www.musserpubliclibrary.org/Teen-Area/In-the-Library/Summer-Reading.aspx

Books!

2010-04-02T08:38:00.000-07:00

I'm about to be squished by a pile of new FA Fiction. I have to get all the titles on and move them before I'm killed...
Wild Things by Clay Carmichael
Broken Soup by Jenny Walentine
Breathless by Jessica Warman
Moribito II by Nahoko Uehashi
Crossing Stones by Helen Frost
Exposure by Mal Peet
The stack is teetering....
The Carbon Diaries 2017 by Saci Lloyd
Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Possessed by Kate Cann
The Shadow Project by Herbie Brennen
Rikers High by Paul Volponi
They Never Came Back by Caroline Cooney
Just a few more now...
For Keeps by Natasha Friend
Blessing's Bead by Debby Edwardson
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
The Chosen One by Carol Williams
The Stolen One Suzanne Crowley
The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Brennen
An Off Year by Claire Zulkey
Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica George
And last but not least
Highway to Hell by Rosemary Clement-Moore
Whew! I survived! I know you're thinking, "What a wimp!" but until you've bee crushed by a stack of too-precariously stacked books, you just don't know the kind of fear I just survived...I think I need a snack and a nap...
More later...

Long, long, long, long, long time....

2010-04-01T09:27:00.000-07:00

Since I've posted anything! I apologize. We were remodeling then the teen site was remolding then blah, blah, blah, blah. Any way, we're back and full of fire! No. Not fire- fire is bad for books. Water, then. No. Water is bad for books, too. We're full of...books! Yeah. Books are good for books. So, here's the list of what's just come in and there's a ton!!!
In mmmmmmmanga and graphic novels:
Ender's Shadow: Battle School
Ender's Game: Battle School
Wonder Woman: The Circle
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mixed Vegetables 1
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
Tegami Bachi (Letter Bee)
Takeru: Sword of the Devil 1 & 2
Kimi Ni Todoke 1 & 2
Nightschool: The Weirn Books 1 & 2
Angel Diary 11
Frankenstien
The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle
Sandman: Dream Hunters
XXXHolic 15
Dance in the Vampire Bund 2 (We're having trouble finding #1...)

And in YA Fiction...that's going to have to be another post because there is a ton of new stuff!
I also have lots more stuff to share...wait for it.
More later...

Busy, busy, busy...

2010-01-12T13:59:00.000-08:00

So, the library will be closed for another week {awwwwwww}
Unfortunatley, this means that Teen Gaming on the 21st has been canceled. The meeting room is full of the Children's books. And I mean full. Books here. Books there. Books everywhere!
I know, I know. It's tough. But when we open, it will be so fabulous, your eyes will melt from their sockets! No. That's not true, but you will really love the changes, so hang tight and we'll be open on the 25th of January. Check out the home page (www.musserpubliclibrary.org) to see pictures of all the staff lugging books, painting walls and balancing DVDs on our noses while jugging chainsaws...
Sorry, I made that last part up. More later. TTFN.

I almost wet myself!

2009-11-20T06:45:00.001-08:00

Okay. You HAVE to check this out. I laughed so hard I almost cried!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CCEDNcqtEM&feature=player_embedded

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Sweet!

2009-11-17T08:53:00.000-08:00

The pictures must wait. There is much t'do in Nottingham.
Go to this site http://www.qcanimezing.com/ and set your faces to "STUNNED".
And please, please, please try not to wet yourself with joy. We'll talk all about it at the Anime Screening Club on Dec. 4th. It's too much for my brain to handle right now. TTFN

I am a terrible Taco!

2009-11-09T14:17:00.000-08:00

Why wouldst thou call thine self a "terrible Taco"? Dost thou have a minute to listen to a sad story? Okay-ith. Herest we go. So the other day I was not here and then the next day I was gone, too. And many things happened in all this time that I was gone and not here. I ate some portabella mushroom and goat cheese pizza (so good!) and I watched a lot of movies and anime (My butt got sore from sitting in front of the screen for so long!) And I lost most of my eyelashes because I taped my eyelids open so that I wouldn't have to waste time blinking while I read about fifty thousand manga (Vampire Knight 8! Saw it coming from a mile away! Kuran = HOT+disturbed+ serious and when you add all up, you get SUPER HOT!!!!!) a lot of napping and sewing and nose-picking and, most importantly of which is that I forgot to load the pictures of the Figge trip and I'm a terrible taco. I promise I'll get it done soon. Don't salsa me. TTFN

Nutu U

2009-10-28T15:56:00.000-07:00

Hello again all! In this edition of Nutu U, I'm going to explain a very amazing and recently discovered FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE! Plus an new list of incoming is below... I'm still trying to get the anime listing done...sorry...

Hey! Look over there! It's NEW MANGA!
Rosario+Vampire 8 & 9
Captive Hearts 5
Bride of the Water God 2, 3 & 4
Blood+ 5
We now have 1-10 of Dazzle!
~insert hyperventilation~ Yes, I am the world's biggest nerd. Thanks for asking. I know it's just one series in a plethora of titles. I know it doesn't seem like much but it's all about baby steps.
Baby steps. Yes. Baby stepping until we own every manga in the world!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What? Oh, never mind. Look over there! {run}
And now for the Mysteries of the Universe Revealed portion of this post. I was recently whining to another Library person about the fact that once all our new manga goes out on the shelves, it will go out on hold and never come back. :( But then she told me that PALS will send our stuff back to us first.
For any who don't know, PALS = Prairie Area Library System = the magic place all your mountain o' manga holds come from.
Astrophysics, it ain't, but PALS does have some interesting rules and one of them goes something like "if it belongs to thine library, ye be the first to get it on hold". So even if 50 people from other libraries have holds on our items, it will always go to our patrons first. Isn't that cool?! The only thing that would make it better would be if ALL holds came to us first! ;p Oh well. Let's not be too greedy. More later. TTFN

Nutu U

2009-10-19T12:10:00.000-07:00

Here's the latest arrivals to the manga collection-straight from Tech Services to you! The anime list will be separate and I'll get it up as soon as possible. Oh, and THANKS to everyone that came with us on the super happy fun time anime bus ride to Teen Anime Day! It was excellent and everyone had a fabulous time, even if they did run out of hot water and some people were forced to do push-ups. ;)
Red River 27
Hellsing 1
Hellsing 2
Narruto 42
Wallflower 21
Chibi Vampire 14
Captive Hearts 4
Stray Little Devil 3
Dazzle 5
Dazzle 8

PICTURES! Permission Slips, and "The Food Situation"

2009-10-14T08:15:00.000-07:00

Alright! As promised~ the pictures from our cosplay costume workshop! "Finally," you are all thinking!

We surfed a bit to find costume ideas, debated the pros and cons of some characters over others... (Yeah, Inuyasha is awesome and the costume would be fairly easy to accomplish, but barefoot in the winter? Not so awesome. Can you say "frostbite"?)
We also decided that laying on top of fabric and tracing around someone a perfectly acceptable way to make a pattern. I didn't get a picture of the finished product, but it looked as though it had been purchased in a store run by industrius, albeit slightly sinister, fae folk!
I can't remember the name of the green character, but we compared the outfit seen here to an actual picture and it was a dead ringer, right down to the blanket-cape! Great job, everyone. We'll be the talk of the Teen AnimeFest (and not because we have food on our faces!)
That reminds me! This Sunday is Teen AnimeFest! If you don't have your permission slips in by Friday, 10/16, YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED ON THE BUS!!! I might make exceptions if there are extenuating circumstances, but I might not. If you need a permission slip, they are at the Reference Desk at Musser Library, you can get one from Mrs. Wilford at MSH, or you can download/print one from the Teen Area at www.musserpubliclibrary.org. Coo? Coo.
I don't know what the food situation will be when we get there so eat something before we leave or bring something with you. You can leave stuff on the bus if you need to. I think that's all that the Hamster in the Squeaky Wheel wants me to tell you guys so...TTFN

Saturday's Costume Workshop

2009-10-07T09:47:00.000-07:00

We had so much fun! Some people sewed, some worked on AnimeFest costumes, and everybody ate candy! I'll have the pictures up soon...
And in other late breaking great news, Katy is going to Teen AnimeFest with us on Sunday Oct. 18! Don't know Katy by name? Well she's blond and has blue eyes and works at the Circulation Desk. She's probably checked in your mountain o'manga before.(Those who leave a mountian o'manga know who you are ;} ) The Figge AnimeFest is coming up quick. Like, less than two weeks, quick! I still don't know who I'm going as; I'm taking suggestions.
We have another Halloween Costume Workshop this Saturday, Oct 10 from 11-1:30pm, so if you need to work on your cosplay costumes, come on down. I think Katy might dress up too, but don't quote me on that. Maybe if she was asked really sweetly.......
More later.
TTFN

New stuff en route!

2009-10-07T09:42:00.000-07:00

So I visited the Iowa City Public Library recently and after drooling (:P) over all of their rows and rows of manga, I started thinking..."Hmmm..." I said to myself, "Tech Services just ordered a bunch of stuff for our manga collection! That means...(hamster running in a squeeky wheel)...we'll have new titles soon!!!" The order is manga as well as anime so keep your eyes and ears peeled for new stuff coming to a shelf near you. Remember it takes a lot to get a book ready for check out so be patient. It will be worth it, believe me!

New Manga Series- Orange Crows

2009-09-30T09:31:00.000-07:00

My latest just-starting-series read: Orange Crows Vol. 1 by James Perry and Ryo Kawakami. After being exiled to a forbidden wasteland full of flesh eating fairies (I'm so there!) for 5 years, Cierra comes back to "civilization" and everything's completely different. She gets roped into the Special Witch and Warlock Squadron- a bunch of powerful albeit neurotic peace keeper types. So she's dealing with major social upheavals while hiding a yet to be explained crazy and potentially deadly power within herself.
Perry's writing can go either way- it's too soon to tell. Kawakami’s art is well defined and minimalistic. I love page after page of deep and complicated drawings, (Kaori Yuki! Yay!) but sometimes I have NO idea what's going on. In this case, simplistic art makes for easy-to-follow story lines and characters. The sound effects are in kanji without a translation, which is fairly standard for Tokyopop titles, making for severe confusion in several parts. I'll definately keep my eyes peeled for #2- then we'll see if it's a "keep" or "toss".

Oh My Blog!

2009-09-25T12:47:00.001-07:00

WOW! I'm super excited- we finally have a blog! This is all I've ever wanted! (Well, a blog and that perfect hair only found in manga...) The 1st reason I love the blogsphere-I finally have yet another way to keep you updated on what we're doing at the Library! This includes, but is not limited to, programs, new manga and graphic novel titles, new anime and other DVDs, new video games and gaming nights, events we're attending and general goings-on at Musser Library.
So much stuff, so little blog.
Can I tell you another great thing about the blog? Now you guys can post, too. If you want new titles or have comments about what we're doing, post it. If you've read a new title and want to give a review, do it! Suggestions for Anime Screening Club? Reviews of programs we've had at the Libarary? Ideas for other programs? Post it all! I am so excited!
You can always find out what we have going on by checking the Event Calendar or Teen Area at www.musserpubliclibrary.org or you can email me directly at sderbin@muscatinelibrary.org. TTFN