Free Audiobooks

Do you prefer to listen to books rather than read them? Then, this site is perfect for you. It's the Audiobook Podcast Collection - some are available ast mp3s while others are only available through iTunes. They're all free, though, so you can listen all of them without paying a penny. Most of them are older titles like The Call of the Wild or The Metamorphosis. The site also includes a list of other podcast sites on the Internet.

And, of course, you can always check out the BCLS Podcasts.

Happy listening!

Attention Incoming Seniors!

For those of you who are getting ready to start your senior year in high school next month, you're probably also getting ready to apply to colleges and universities. In addition to using our College & University page, you might try Campus Explorer. This site allows you to search for colleges based on field of study, degree type or location. You can get information about the students and admissions requirements for specific schools, as well. Here's the information about The University of Texas at Austin.

Don't Forget

The library book sale continues today and tomorrow 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Come to the Angleton Library for some genuine book bargains!

You Can Find Some Strange Stuff Online

Proof that the web hosts some odd sites: there's Ian's Shoelace Site. It teaches you various ways to tie your shoes including how to get your shoelace bows straight. There's even a shoelace photo of the week!

Movie Cliches

Heard about this fantastic website all about movie cliches. The Movie Cliches List posts various movie cliches about all kinds of topics. Here are the cliches about teenagers in movies.

Another site that lists cliches in movies is Ebert's Little Movie Glossary. The site lists cliches as definitions, such as this one for the bungee shot.

Enjoy!

Library Videos

We've been slowly, very slowly, creating library videos. We finished our first one in January and just wrapped up our second video last week. Here is the finished product.




We had a great group of teens who were excited about the project. They came up with the idea and most of the scenes. We filmed one evening after the library was closed. This is the Angleton Library. Our previous video took place at the Danbury Library.






We hope to film one at every branch, and we'd love for more teens to get involved. We may be at your branch soon. Keep a lookout.

Book Sale

The library system is having a book sale! It starts tomorrow (Thursday, July 26) at 5 p.m. and is all day Friday and Saturday.

Most of the books are $1 or less, and there are always some great titles. There are also books on tape and videos.

The book sale is at the Angleton Library, and new stuff is being brought out every day, so come as many times as you want.

See you there!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Well, I got the book at about 3:30 Saturday afternoon, and I finished it at 7 a.m. the next morning - reading nonstop. I thought the book was excellent. A very fitting conclusion for a wonderful series.

What did you think?

And if you're not Harry Potter'd out, come to the Alvin Library on July 31 at 2 p.m. to celebrate our hero's birthday!

All Consuming

All Consuming is a site that allows people to talk about books, movies, music, even food that they have consumed, are consuming, plan to consume. Check out their Huh? section for more info. This is their entry for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - watch out for spoilers in the comments section if you haven't read the book yet! It's a pretty great site, and you could get sucked in pretty quickly and easily.

Enjoy!

Teen Read Week

Teen Read Week, a week in which we librarians like to emphasize reading for teens (as if we don't do that all the time), is in October. This year it's October 14-20 and the theme is LOL @ your library. So, to help us prepare for that week (and any other time, really), tell us what your favorite funny books are. They don't have to be for teens - just books that make you laugh.

Some of my favorites are:
The Giggler Treatment - Roddy Doyle
The Princess Diaries series - Meg Cabot (her blog is funny, too)
Invincible: Family Matters - Robert Kirkman
Wizard at Work - Vivian Vande Velde
the Amelia Rules comics - Jimmy Gownley
the Bone comics - Jeff Smith
George Speaks - Dick King-Smith
Howie Monroe and the Doghouse of Doom - James Howe (a parody of Harry Potter)
the Pagan series - Catherine Jinks
Son of the Mob - Gordon Korman
Scrib - David Ives

Welcome to the New Teens Blog!

For those of you who have been to the teens site before, this is a little bit of a change. For those of you who haven't been here before: Welcome!

This is the new teens blog. I'm going to try to post interesting news and links and reviews and such. All of the links that were on the previous Teens Only page are still here. They're all to the right - Homework, Books, Movies, Music, all of them.

In the meantime, you can still see the original Teens Only site.