As part of the 20th anniversary of the Central Library building at 65 Victoria Street, we are holding a treasure hunt. If you and your family are the lucky winners, you’ll have a Wii to take home with you! Wendy, from our Children and Youth Services team, tells you more in the video below:
The Rugby World Cup kicks of tonight (you may have heard), also kicking off is the Wellington City Libraries Cup Diary. We’ll be letting you know what’s going to be happening in and around our libraries during the World Cup, highlighting some of the events happening in Wellington and providing the sort of in-depth rugby analysis you can only expect from true experts (maybe not that last part).
Here are some examples of what you can expect visually when you visit the library during the World Cup:
Civic Square has a rugby field in it for impromptu late night kick arounds 
The entrance to Civic Square has a handy red beacon that will let you know what is happening in the city that day
The front window to the library features a “seventies lounge” full of rugby memorabilia
The foyer is decked out with flags, artificial turf and goalposts. Sort of like you are a player walking out of the tunnel
On the first floor you can check out our Guess Who Competition and our collection of rugby books
Visit this blog for regular updates from the Cup Diary team and enjoy the matches!
Enter our competition, match the numbered silhouettes above with the famous players they belong to, and you might be in to win our great prize, generously donated by Wellington City Council (RRP $200)!
All you need to do is head over to our entry form page, choose from a list of possible players, and enter the number for your guess for each player.
The winner will be announced on 30 October 2011. This gives you time to watch players in action during the World Cup! Good luck!
And here’s what you could win:
The Prize: Official RWC rugby ball, shirt, scarf, pins & keyring.
Please note: the judges’ decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
We received a large number of very good entries in the competition and the Judging Panel of the Mills and Boon Writing competition were hard-pressed to choose a winner. After much debate and deliberation among us, and not knowing the names of the competitors, we chose the winning paragraph.
Congratulations to Stephanie Gillbanks for a very fine entry! The judges agreed that Stephanie’s paragraph was vibrant, engaging and totally within the spirit of a Mills and Boon novel. We wanted to know what happened next! Stephanie wins a Sony e-book reader and a basket of goodies. With her e-book reader, she will now have the ability to download lots of romance e-books from OverDrive, and enhance her romance writing skills!!
Thank you to all those who entered the competition. Writing competitions are hard work, and it was obvious that a lot of effort had gone into the entries. We thoroughly enjoyed reading them and could see that there is plenty of talent among our library patrons for writing romance novels!
Stephanie has given us permission to publish her winning paragraph.
“Hell on earth, Lee reflected as she eyed the sea of cotton candy pink satin and tulle, was being in a bridal party. She leapt at a knock to answer the door, hoping for the salvation of more champagne. Instead of the expected room service uniform her eyes were caught by worn jeans lovingly hugging long legs before drifting up past a soft t-shirt skimming over prime musculature to tousled dark hair, a face fit for a Roman coin and piercing blue eyes that held a wicked glint. “”Hey Slim. Back from the bright lights.”" The haze of lust that had surrounded her evaporated. Oh God. She recognised that voice. Sam, her High School nemesis.”
Deborah, on behalf of the Mills and Boon Writing Competition Judging Panel
The Girl who played with Fire is the second movie to be adapted from the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy novels following the very popular The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Like that earlier film, this new release stars Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander, a woman on the run and Michael Nyquist as the journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who is desperate to find her. This movie promises to be as dark and action-packed as the previous movie.
To win a 2 for 1 voucher just answer this simple question:
What is the title of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy? Send your answer to Linda before 15th August 2010 to be in the draw.
There is still time (well two days, really!) to enter our Waitangi Day competition: a quiz that will test your knowledge of this major event in New Zealand history. If you know how to search the internet, you will be able to find the correct answers and be in to win really nice prizes.
Enter the competition by clicking here.
The Library is running a Waitangi Day quiz! Answer the questions and you could win an MP3 player. Enter it here, but be quick as it closes on Saturday.
Revolutionary Road, the first of seven novels by Richard Yates, was published in 1961 and was much acclaimed by the critics. Set in the mid 1950s it tells the story of a young married couple, who feel they are more than ordinary, they dispise their urban lifestyle, its people and the social confines of the time they inhabit. They are ambitious for a life beyond, filled with purpose and the promise they are sure they deserve. This novel reflects the social aspects of post war America brilliantly. The movie, based on the novel is due for release on 22 January, and stars Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet ( who won a Golden Globe for her performance). You could win a double pass, courtesy Paramount Pictures to the film Revolutionary Road by completing a simple quiz on our Fiction webpage and sending us your details.
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