Five Recommended Things to Do If You’re Stuck @ Home
The recent snowstorm kept a lot of people indoors and going nowhere fast—me included. Although I appreciated having an impromptu day off work, I quickly found myself suffering from extreme boredom. Anticipating that the future may bring a time when you are stuck at home, here are a few fun, productive things that you can do...
In a recent discovery while trolling the Internet, I came across a great blog run by a group of avid teen readers. A couple of the young adults started craving for books after first reading Twilight, which as most people know is filled with vampires, werewolves, and a forbidden love story. They have compiled a nice list of book reviews that you can check out here.
The series begins with Lisa MacCrimmon returning to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine after a knee injury ends her career as a professional Scottish dancer. She’s working in her aunt’s Scottish Emporium when she comes across her first dead body.
Thursday’s Mystery Book Club discussed The Watchman by Robert Crais. This is the first book in Crais’ Joe Pike series. For years Pike was Cole’s sidekick in Crais’ popular Elvis Cole series, and in 2007, he gave Pike his own series. In this one, Pike is hired to look after a spoiled rich girl, Larkin, who saw the wrong man running from an accident scene and now has someone trying to kill her.
The Blue Ridge Branch kicked off Teen Tech Week (March 10-16) with a robotics demonstration on Monday afternoon from the Ruskin High Eagles Robotics Team. The team dazzled the crowd with a demo of last season’s robot, which was a basketball player.
The robot could retrieve three basketballs at a time and then "shoot hoops." Students talked about their latest robot build, a bot that throws Frisbees, that they will be bringing out for a nationwide robotics competition later this week.
For the March meeting, the Monday Mystery Book Club read Heartbroken by Lisa Unger. The beginning of this book is very dull and slow. It jumps around between Emily, Kate, and Birdie randomly. Not by chapter. Many found themselves reading along and suddenly getting lost because of a character switch within the chapter. It stops the flow for the reader.
Thursday’s Mystery Book Club discussed The Chalk Girl by Carol O’Connell. This book involves rats running through New York, an orphaned fairy-like girl in the park, dead bodies in trees, bullying at a private school, a fifteen year old murder, a cover up, all kinds of power plays, and a detective on a mission.
For the February meeting, the Monday Mystery Book Club read The Mapping of Love & Death by Jacqueline Winspear. In this one, Maisie is involved in tracking down the unknown nurse whose love letters were found with the remains of a solider from 1917.
Birthday gifts, gas prices, childcare, groceries! You name it, we are paying for it. It’s always nice to save money with savvy shopping, but you may not be aware there are other financial corners we can cut in our daily lives as well.
