I know it summer hasn't ended outside, but inside it's all new backpacks and sharpened pencils. School has started!
Whether you're excited about this or not (you should tell me how you feel in the poll in the side bar!), it's happening. So why not mark the beginning of the new year by playing some video games with us on Tuesday, joining the Teen Advisory Group on Thursday, and creating things out of duct tape on Friday?
In other news, there is an important birthday today!
Ray Bradbury is 91 today! Ray Bradbury has written at least one book you'llprobably read for school- Fahrenheit 451 along with many many other wonderful, beautiful books. He's written important science fiction books like The Martian Chronicles. He's written terrifying horror stories like Something Wicked This Way Comes. He's written books of magical realism like Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band is Playing. And he's written everything in between. He's written so much I haven't even come close to reading all of his work, which you might think is odd if you know me. I'll be honest and say that I don't like the endings of some of his stories (they can be downright creepy!) but he has a power with words that makes you just stop and reread a one sentence over and over.
Anyway, as you can probably tell, he's one of my absolute favorite authors and he has said some of my favorite things about life, writing, books, and libraries. Including:
Right now I'm reading the graphic novel adaptation of Something Wicked This Way Comes, which is a great Halloween-type book. You should check it out!
One last thing to end this post. I did a double take when I heard Tightrope by Janelle Monae on some 'back to school' commercial, and I wanted to share it with you since it is a truly excellent song for going back to school and not just because it was being used to sell you new clothes.
Hope your first day was great!
DFTBA,
Sti
In other news, there is an important birthday today!
Ray Bradbury is 91 today! Ray Bradbury has written at least one book you'llprobably read for school- Fahrenheit 451 along with many many other wonderful, beautiful books. He's written important science fiction books like The Martian Chronicles. He's written terrifying horror stories like Something Wicked This Way Comes. He's written books of magical realism like Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band is Playing. And he's written everything in between. He's written so much I haven't even come close to reading all of his work, which you might think is odd if you know me. I'll be honest and say that I don't like the endings of some of his stories (they can be downright creepy!) but he has a power with words that makes you just stop and reread a one sentence over and over.
Anyway, as you can probably tell, he's one of my absolute favorite authors and he has said some of my favorite things about life, writing, books, and libraries. Including:
"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane." (from Fahrenheit 451)
"There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library."
"Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. "
"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."
"[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore."
"I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored."
Right now I'm reading the graphic novel adaptation of Something Wicked This Way Comes, which is a great Halloween-type book. You should check it out!
One last thing to end this post. I did a double take when I heard Tightrope by Janelle Monae on some 'back to school' commercial, and I wanted to share it with you since it is a truly excellent song for going back to school and not just because it was being used to sell you new clothes.
Hope your first day was great!
DFTBA,
Sti
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