100th Post and one VERY Cool Library

WooHoo! It is my 100th post! The totally awesome thing is I never thought I'd stick with the blog long enough to get to this point. Golf clap for me :)

I've been dreadfully absent lately - but I've been working on so many fun new programs and outreach ideas for the New Job that will be showing up on Mini-Lizz here shortly. 

I've also been working away on my house, and you can see all that I've been doing on my other blog, Lizz the Fabulizer. 

Enjoy some great library pics today and I'll be back with an update on Insurgent soon :)

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The Palatine Library in Parma, Italy was founded in 1761 and their collection includes over 700 million books. It is one of the richest libraries of Italy (of the world? that is a massive collection!).

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The working library of Herford Cathedral in England originated in the eleventh century. The chained library at the cathedral, containing 229 medieval manuscripts, remains the largest historic chained library in the world, with all its rods, chains and locks intact. In has been preserved in the form in which it was maintained for 1611 to 1841 (Source).

So, I understand what a chained library is (lol, totally from Harry Potter), but I wanted to know a little more. If you do too check out these sites:

Wikipedia: Chained Library

Despectacled Librarian

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Books take you to magical places, but these books live in a magical place. Look at those ceilings and shelves! Marvelous!! This is the Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria. 

Book Review: Insurgent

Insurgent

Veronica Roth

GUESS WHAT I STARTED?!?!?! I guess it isn't that much of a guessing game since I've already told you ... but I am SO excited!!

Review after the jump ... if you haven't read the first book (Divergent - review here) this will contain some basic spoilers you might want to avoid! 

September 23

So since I was kinda having a sick day today (why are people so nice and share every illness under the sun with me? I seriously need some vitamins!), I had plenty of time to do laundry and start a new book!! I was so excited when this one came in and I had (accidentally) forgotten about it while I was moving. Since I decided I couldn't check anything else out until I finished what I had at home ... I grabbed this one when I saw it!

Here is another great sequel that starts right where the other book ended. However, I could have used a second of review because there was a member of their party I don't remember being there. Nevertheless, the book has started well! I'm so glad that Tris' brother is with her right now! Four/Tobias is as fabulous as I remember him and they are all in a heap of trouble, although I don't "feel" like they are. I think it is because we left off in the middle of the action and it will take a second to get back into it. But, as always, I'll let you know how it goes!

October 18th

I know, no excuses on the delay here. This book just isn't quite as captivating as the first. There is, of course, a complicated plot line and no one seems to know who they should be trusting - everyone seems so suspicious. The walls of communication seem to crumble around Tris and Four/Tobias. Although they seem to have just revealed huge secrets, why they hadn't told each other before is something that isn't quite clear. Plus, I would have liked to have seen some anger toward each other. That might be coming, so I'll wait. Right now the plot is just kinda dredging along and, although things are happening, it doesn't seem like it matters that much to the story. We will see ...

October 24th

What is it about this book that I just can't seem to get through? I'm finally over half way through, but it is a struggle to sit down and read it. I don't understand why I pick up the first book of a series and devour it in a matter of hours - but I'm not enjoying the second book. Divergent is on my top ten list this year (await the full list!!), but this one ... I'm too impatient and I care more about the characters then the story itself and this book is focused more on the action (I guess that is me answering my question). 

Check out a Give Away!!

So this is purely for myself, because I get points for sharing this with all of you lovely fans! However, this book sounds like such a great one that I'd love to read it and then tell you all about it!! 

GO ENTER FOR A FREE COPY OF "WHEELS"

Read about it here::

McKenzie Wu, doesn’t know her great-great grandmother married an alien or that her great-great-great uncle is alive and systematically eliminating a race of beings on a tiny planet light years away—she has enough to worry about. Molecules keep rearranging themselves to suit her slightest wish, but only at the most inconvenient times. If that weren’t enough, she’s been dreaming about an accident; one she’s had no memory of until now and, if true, means McKenzie is responsible for her mother’s death.    When McKenzie stumbles upon a portal that transports her and her friend Hayes to the tiny planet of Circanthos, she learns the inhabitants believe she is the “One” destined to save them from H.G. Wells, a name that sounds strangely familiar, and his Tsendi warriors. But while her newfound ability might give her superhero status back on Earth, halfway across the galaxy it’s commonplace—all Circanthians can particle-weave—and if they can’t stop H.G. Wells, what can she hope to do?   With the portal closed and no idea how to get home, McKenzie must learn to use a power she does not want and accept her mysterious past, or risk losing everything—her father’s love, her new alien friends and the boy.