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Igår hade vi premiär för en bokcirkel på Tallåsskolan. Det var fem engagerade elever och en bibliotekarie som tillsammans diskuterade Tahereh Mafis dystopiska framtidsroman Rör mig inte ! om Juliette, som kan döda en människa om hon rör vid någon. Vi som var där tyckte bra om den. Historien är intressant och den är skrivet på ett annorlunda sätt, där delar av huvudpersonen Juliettes tankar är överstrukna, som att hon inte får tänka dem. //Björn

Ni vet väl att Katrineholms stadsbibliotek har en egen blogg? Den heter Bubblan i bibblan och där presenterar bibliotekariernas boktips och gör lite reklam för vad som händer på stadsbiblioteket och Kulturhuset Ängeln. Den här veckan är det jag som har hand om bloggen och det blir flera recensioner av nya, riktigt bra böcker. Hittills den här veckan har jag skrivit om Lögnernas träd och Nattgästen . Imorgon pratar jag om Våra kemiska hjärtan och veckan avslutas med en recension av Wink, Poppy, Midnight. Kanske hittar du en ny favorit bland dem? Missa inte tipsen från de andra bibliotekarierna, vi har alla olika smak så det blir tips om allt möjligt. Trevlig läsning! //Björn

Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney The main character is Greg Heffley, who may be from 11-13 years old, and his family with his dad, mom and his brother Rodrick who live together. It’s the first year of middle school for Greg and Rowley where weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. Greg is happy to have Rowley as a friend but when he starts to rise on the popularity list then he wants to use it to his own advantage and that will test their friendship in hilarious ways. Rodrick gives advice to Greg how to survive middle school and then he tries to teach that to Rowley because he thinks that he's lame and childish. The front page is very simple. There is only a white page with black and white colours. It's a drawn boy that looks very sad with a backpack. I chose this book just because I have seen the movie of the book and I found it very funny so I said let's give it a try. My expectations were that it was going to be a comedy boo...

Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney My opinion on this book is that it is an average book. It’s is kind of a slow book and the jokes are so bad they are super dry. I recommend the book to people that have bad sense of humor. The book is about Greg, that has a friend Rowley. that is a bit stupid. He is very scared and his parents get very angry at him for doing bad stuff like playing video games that are not for his age. And then Greg gets grounded by his parents. Greg kind of gets bullied at school by kids that are bigger than him. That's when he wants to be hall security and he feels safer then, because if you bully a hall security you get banned from school. Greg wants to become the class clown, but he doesn't get any votes from his class, but his friend gets all the votes instead. Greg starts to get mad at him for getting all the votes. Greg and his best friend don't get along that good anymore so the are not gonna be hanging out for sometime. It's like a bre...

Straight punch by Monique Polak. It takes place in a little town in America in the year 2014. The story is about a 17 year old girl named Tessa McPhail who has recently been expelled from her old school and now has to go to a last-chance school named New Directions. It is a small school with only 12 students, Tessa being one of them. The new school has a special schedule where half of the day is normal studies and the other half is boxing. They train boxing everyday because the gym teacher “Big Ron” says that it gives the students more character and self-confidence. The only main character is Tessa McPhail. She is 17 years old with burgundy colored hair. She hates violence, because when she was 11 years old she and her mom were going out to eat when they were caught up in the middle of a riot after a football game. The riot scarred Tessa for life. In my opinion the book is really good, it’s one of the few books that I have enjoyed recently. The characters are all great with p...

Diary of a wimpy kid: Old school by Jeff Kinney I’ve read a bo ok called Old school by Jeff Kinney which is about this one guy named Greg Heffley, who is just an average kid from the USA. In this book his town voluntarily unplugs and goes totally electronic free. And he starts thinking about the good old days, was it better back then? He’s not quite used to the old fashioned world, and that’s pretty much what the book is all about. He goes on some kind of school trip, and he doesn’t have any electronics at all. And it’s just a matter of time how long he’s gonna last. The book itself is a comedy I’d say just because there are like all those kinds of different jokes and stuff in the book you might notice reading it. The front is pretty simple. It’s just Greg standing with a radio and some kind of vvs for some reason, probably because of the title, that it’s supposed to feel a little more old school. Like I said there are all those inside jokes or whatever at certain places that you...

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood by Oliver Bowden I have read the book Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood by Oliver Bowden. The book is about Ezio Auditiore and the brotherhood that he belongs to, the assassins. Ezio is trying to protect the brotherhood at the same time as he is looking for some sort of godly artifacts, this is the mission he got from a god and this god decided that he was worthy of this task. All the Assassin’s creed books are based on the Assassin’s creed games which is interesting, people say that the books have a strong connection to the games which is true. If you have ever played one of the games you would almost notice this immediately. This book is definitely action packed and if you like when stuff happens all the time I would greatly recommend it, of course it would be a bonus if you have played the game and liked it. It makes the experience a whole lot better. If I had to rate this book I would give it 8/10 since I have played the games and I really didn’t need ...

Snapshot by Robert Swindells I’ve read a book that is called Snapshot . It’s a very short book with only 50 pages. The main character is named Alfie Gott, He seems to be a teenager living in northern Britain. You don’t really get to know him too well. The way the author writes makes me think that he’s from northern Britain, maybe Scotland. He uses a couple of slang words that seems very “Scottish” And it’s a bit hard to understand sometimes. I think the genre is kind of a thriller, because there’s a lot of action in the book. The story begins with Alfie getting a new camera for his birthday, and when he went out to take some pictures he accidentally witnessed a robbery on a jewelry store. He took out his new camera and shot some pictures of the robbery and one of the robbers saw him. Alfie then got interviewed by some policemen. He didn’t tell them about the camera. Later when he started to walk home he noticed he was getting followed by one of the robbers. He figured out that the ro...

Harry Potter and the goblet of fire by J.K. Rowling The book is about Harry Potter and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger and their fourth year at Hogwarts. This is the fourth book out of seven in this series. Harry gets chosen to the Triwizard Tournament although he didn’t put his name into the goblet of fire. The story takes place at Hogwarts a school for wizards and witches. Hogwarts is an old castle were students between 11 and 17 years study. The book takes place in 1995 and 1996. In the story Harry went to the quidditch world cup to watch the game between Belgium and Ireland. He was joining his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley with his sister, two brothers and Ron's dad who had gotten free tickets for the game. The game is a competition between two teams and one player in each team are supposed to take the golden snitch to end the game. I think the book is good even though it is pretty much text in this book with over 600 pages. I think that the author...

Wave by Paul Dowswell This book is about two brothers that live in a town called Hastings in the UK. The two brothers (Charlie & Eddie) clear out their grandmother's attic and second a picture which they show to their grandmother. Upon seeing this she tells them about the other half of this book. The other half of this book takes place 100 years earlier at the battle of the Somme during the rst world war where two brothers (Charlie & Eddie) are part of the first wave. Not so much is told about the main characters, but the book says that Eddie really wants to join the army (present time Eddie). The front of the book is fairly simple only having the colors black, red and grey. At the top of the book you have the books name and on the bottom you have the author's name. In the middle you have a bird sitting on a line of barbed wire. My thoughts on Wave is that even though it’s very short it still has a good story in it. The reason to as why I chose this book is because I ...

Bild från alex.se Årets pris till Astrid Lindgrens minne, ALMA-priset går i år till den tyske illustratören och bilderboksförfattaren Wolf Erlbruch. Han får priset med motiveringen: ”Wolf Erlbruch gör viktiga livsfrågor tillgängliga och hanterbara för läsare i alla åldrar. Med humor och värme djupt rotad i en humanistisk grundsyn visar hans verk det lilla i det stora. Han behärskar mästerligt sin teckningskonst och bottnar i en lång tradition samtidigt som han öppnar nya kreativa fönster. Wolf Erlbruch är en omsorgsfull visionär.” Wolf Erlbruch är född 1948 och känd för böcker som Det var det fräckaste! och  Anden, döden och tulpanen . Han har tidigare fått det tyska Jugendliteraturpreis och Hans Christian Andersen award. Läs mer om Wolf Erlbruch, priset och tidigare pristagare på ALMA:s hemsida. Källor: Alma.se. "Wolf Erlbruch tilldelas Litteraturpriset till Astrid Lindgrens minne 2017". [http://www.alma.se/sv/Pristagare/Wolf-Erlbruch-tilldelas-Litteraturpr...

Emma by Jane Austen. The story about Emma Woodhouse takes place somewhere in England, I believe on the countryside. Due to the author being alive in the late 1700's to early 1800’s the story about Emma also takes place in that time. The main character is Emma Woodhouse, a rich girl who everyone seems to like and finds charming. Though from what I’ve read she seems like a bitch, she doesn’t think before she acts and the way she acts and speaks makes me feel like she thinks she’s “above” everyone else in her surroundings. She also likes to match her friends and others with suitable matches, but thinks the idea of herself getting married soon is highly unthinkable, at least in the beginning. There are some other characters such as Emma's friend Harriet, George Knightly and a girl named Jane and some more. I chose this book because I’ve heard a lot of great things about the author, Jane Austen. And that’s the only reason I decided to read it. Jane Austen is often referred t...

Heir of Fire , Sarah J. Maas Celaena has served two years as assassin to the king of the country of Adarlan. In this book her mission is to assassinate the prince of Wendlyn of the land of Fea. Much of the book is how she is going to do it and a battle of fighting the feeling she has to people around her. The world is a fantasy place with magic beasts of imagination. The world is around the medieval time, with kings and queens that lead a land more and there is a big problem with poorness in the lands. The plot is what Celaena will do and a battle of love and dark memories that haunt her. Celaena is tall and slim built. She has snow white hair and pale skin. Her eyes are the deepest turquoise. Her personality is boyish and rude, but when you have gotten to know her, she can be the sweetest thing. She has a weakness when it comes to clothes. The front page is a white background and Celaena standing with a bow. The letters are big and in gold. I like the first two books that end in a c...