MONDAY -- It's Spring Break for the the school district so I expected a quiet library when I got there. No luck. It was still busy but not as many children as we usually would have on Monday nights. I wanted to work on my pathfinder but my heart was not in it. I mostly did the clearing of the computer room, answered some reference questions and processed some books that needed stickers on the spine. It was still a bit busy but during downtime, I cannot help but check the news online about the Virginia Tech shootings. It was the news of the day. As I was driving to the train station in the morning, I heard about the shooting in the news. What was reported at the time though was that only one or two were shot and I thought, "how sad...another school shooting." As the morning progressed though, the numbers rose and to my shock, there were 33 dead including the shooter. It was riveting to see the news reports. I thought to myself, how vulnerable we all are if someone came to work and started shooting...not just at the firm but at the public library.
To get my mind off of my morbid thoughts, I decided to look for book titles to include in my pathfinder. I found a few but I'm having a difficult time choosing what should be included and what I can omit. There are many titles I can use but some of them are too old. When my mind started wandering again when it got quiet in the library, I just sat there to read. I'm still reading, "Crispin: At the Edge of the World" by Avi. I am getting to the final chapters and I am enjoying the story. I like the first book better but this one is a must read if you read Cross of Lead. Crispin has matured beyond his years as he tries to survive in a new world outside the little village he grew up in. It was touching for me when they arrived to a town destroyed by war and Crispin saw the great sea for the first time in his life and he narrated: "Thus it was that in one brief time I saw the hand of God's creation as thrice awesome -- and the hand of man's destruction frightening three times more." Avi's writing has a way of bringing vividly to the reader's mind what the story's narrator is seeing.
To get my mind off of my morbid thoughts, I decided to look for book titles to include in my pathfinder. I found a few but I'm having a difficult time choosing what should be included and what I can omit. There are many titles I can use but some of them are too old. When my mind started wandering again when it got quiet in the library, I just sat there to read. I'm still reading, "Crispin: At the Edge of the World" by Avi. I am getting to the final chapters and I am enjoying the story. I like the first book better but this one is a must read if you read Cross of Lead. Crispin has matured beyond his years as he tries to survive in a new world outside the little village he grew up in. It was touching for me when they arrived to a town destroyed by war and Crispin saw the great sea for the first time in his life and he narrated: "Thus it was that in one brief time I saw the hand of God's creation as thrice awesome -- and the hand of man's destruction frightening three times more." Avi's writing has a way of bringing vividly to the reader's mind what the story's narrator is seeing.
With this internship and all the cool books I have been reading from the Children's Room, my dream of becoming a writer is somewhat reviving. I want to write something but I still don't know what to write about. I read books by Cynthia Kadohata and Linda Sue Park, both Newbery Winners who wrote books that had to do with their ethnic backgrounds. Is this something I can do? Wow, even with a graduate degree close at hand, I'm still wanting to do something else on top of it, do I seem too insatiable? I guess if nothing else works out, I can be an artist...hahaha! See more of my drawings from last Saturday's drawing session below. Be the judge...Should I stick with being a librarian, or should I be an artist:o)
"CRAZY DAISY"
"DOCTOR EVIL"
"EVIL MONSTER"
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