~ DOC
Art Made From Books by Laura Heyenga, Brian Dettmer, & Alyson Kuhn
“Art Made from Books is all this really fantastic art made from recycled material — old books that were falling apart. I really enjoy going through and looking at everything in here. I think whoever did all this must have the sharpest x-acto knife ever. I just can’t figure out how some of this stuff is possible. I look through the pages of this book and gasp, a lot. I’ve seen books on paper craft before, and they were amazing and seemed impossible. But, this book is surreal. It’s like your brain is being pet while you look through this.”
~ ANDREW H
Live From New York by Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller
“It’s funny. It’s insightful. I loved it and I learned so much about the process of making TV. It’s chaotic, and there is absolutely no formula to success. Live From New York is not a narrative, but it’s a bunch of interviews with the actors, writers and hosts of Saturday Night Live. It tells the fantastic stories of SNL. My favorite parts are about Chris Farley, his life and death. It’s insightful, but it’s also just so incredibly sad. They describe him as a “man boy,” which sounds like it should be a joke, but it’s actually pretty depressing. His inspiration was John Belushi, but Farley never felt like he was able to live up to Belushi’s legend. While everyone around him loved and adored him, he fell into a dark hole of drugs and alcohol to ease the pain of feeling like he never measured up. Chris Farley was my fist real favorite SNL cast member, so it’s great to get this perspective on him.”
~ EMILY
The Door by Margaret Atwood
“The Door is Margaret Atwood doing poetry. It’s always really interesting to me to see an author who can cross genres and do it successfully. Atwood is still able to convey the essence of her style in different forms. I’ve always loved her fiction. Specifically, it was her use of metaphor in her fiction that drew me in. You’ll read her novels and they come off as if they could have been written in prose. Her writing is beautiful, the way she can use metaphor and create something beautiful out of the mundane or the ugly and destructive. Dystopian ideas are made beautiful.”
~ ALTHEA
Divergent by Veronica Roth
“This is a very catchy little page turner. I don’t read a lot of Young Adult fiction — just what my siblings recommend and love. My brother turned me on to Divergent and it is really a great take on dystopia. It’s compelling to read about this young girl trying to have a complex personality in a world that divides everyone into five separate personalities factions. Tris, the main character, is a really inspiring female hero.”
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