We’ve some winners for a few recent competitions we ran. Hannah wins a copy of Sam Stern’s Cooking Up A Storm for her recipe;
Completely Unspecified Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Chocolate Chips, Milk, Baking Powder, Eggs (Remove shells if you feel that it is a good idea), Anchovies (No, that’s not a typo.), Salt, Sugar, Butter, FlourPut as much as you want of basically everything in a bowl. The anchovies add a somewhat fishy quality to the mixture, so just remember that. Cook somehow. Don’t ask me how.
Failing that, just use the leftover milk and get the weetbix, sugar and the unlabelled can out of the pantry (Make sure it is fruit or something pleasantish before you slop it on your weetbix) and have that instead. Probably more nutritious at the very least.
Sounds delicious, doesn’t it?
And Melissa and Rachel have both won a library DVD voucher for completing our recent Magazine Selector. I will post them out sometime later! I promise!
We’re still doing the Selector : Magazine dealie, which means you get to have some say in the magazines the YA area has for borrowing. In fact, you can vote on it and you may win something. It’s like democracy with bribes! There’s about a week left.
As we reported last week, we’re after more magazines for the YA magazine collection, and we’d like you to choose which (make sure you vote – you can do this more than once (every day even) and you might win something, so what the hey).
In order to help you make your choice, and to keep you up with the play on what we’ve got, here’s what the collection currently consists of:
Sports
- Transworld Skateboarding - international skateboarding news and tips etc. (website)
- New Zealand Skateboarder
- Kiwi Surf Magazine - (website)
- Curl: Girls’ Lifestyle Magazine - surfing and stuff. (website)
Virtual Sports
- Playstation 2 (website)
- 360 XBox (website)
- White Dwarf (website)
Girls’, Fashion & Gossip
- Creme (website)
- Dolly (website)
- Girlfriend (website)
- Seventeen (website)
- Sugar (website)
- Teen Vogue (website)
For Amusement
- Mad XL (website)
- Simpsons Magazines
So, what’s lacking? Let us know what you’d recommend and have a good last few days of holiday.
(Young Adult magazines are free to borrow for one week on a Young Adult card – they’re also free to reserve (on a YA card).)
We’ve culled a couple of magazines in the YA area and now we’re left with a few empty shelves. There are many, many magazines and periodicals in the adult collection that could be added to the YA collection – which would mean they’d be free for YA card holders (and free to reserve). But which magazines? Will you help us decide? The one that gets the most votes in the next four weeks will be added (on trial) to the YA collection.
Votes must be in before the 6th of August.
We’re also interested in any other magazines you think we should get.
Below is a brief description of the magazines to choose from, along with a voting form. You can vote once per day (so you could vote for the same magazine each day if you like). Each vote will put you in the draw for a library DVD voucher. You must be a WCL cardholder to be eligible to vote, and you must be between 13 and 18.
Well, nobody said it would be easy.
Calling all readers who haven’t yet let us know what your favourite books are! Visit this post here and quickly tell us your top three (or more if you want).
So far we’ve had heaps of responses that are many and varied – so varied in fact that I now want more! Lots more! In the mean time: you like books by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes to Gabrielle Zevin, About a Boy to the Vampire Beach series, Emma to Graceling. Old hat, new hat… it’s almost all there.
The grand master list of favourite things will be published very soon, with a bang rather than a whimper.
BTW: have you ever come across a book that you thought the library should buy? If you ever do, you can make a suggestion to buy online – just go to this page.
Have a good weekend!
Hello! If you haven’t checked in with us for a few days you might not know that we want to know what your favourite books are: we’re compiling a list of your favourite stuff (it might be books or authors – as yet undecided).
This post here has the form you can fill in: tell us your top three, then there’s space to add as many others as you want. We’ll keep collating until a yet to be specified date, when we’ll produce the list with a suitable drum roll.
Thanks to those who have let us know already, and keep reading.
Oh hi. We would like to know your favourite books, so we can create a Top 10 list of our readers’ choices. Should you get trapped on a deserted island, which three (or more) books would you take with you? They can be any book, but ideally it should be for teens.
Fill in the form below (you don’t need to complete your details, but you probably should), and depending on the results we will sort out a list sometime after Queen’s Birthday weekend.
[Update: thanks for filling in the form if you did - it was interesting hearing what you like to read. We might well be asking you similarly tough questions in future.]
Inside Girl, by J Minter. And the crowd goes wild (except for the people who were in the Morganville camp – who knows, the library may end up investing in this series too in the future).
Thanks for playing. We’ll draw one lucky Inside Girl supporter to be first in the queue for when the series arrives!
Postscript: message from Paula the Selector – “think I might order the vampires as well, they seem [...] fun!” So there you go.
It’s Inside Girl versus Morganville Vampires! What to pick, what to pick?
Do Texan vampires have a show at defeating Flan Flood? Will the fangs come out, and if they do will the vampires cope?
So, readers, you get to choose which series the library will purchase: it’s the vampires whose peaceful towny existence is disrupted by the arrival of the evil Bishop versus a rich kid who used to attend an exclusive academy but decides to rub elbows with students at a typical high school (proper descriptions are here).
You’ve got until next Tuesday to decide: this is the final round, so get voting! One lucky voter will get the chance to be first in the queue for the winning literary treasure.
ps congratulations to Rachel for picking up the voucher for 2 free DVD rentals.
Here’s the line up for round two: don’t forget to vote (descriptions here). One lucky round two voter will win a voucher for two free DVDs (rental value of $8!!) – this should make the last days of holidays more interesting.
What’s Selector? Read this for more.
Five series have survived the cutthroat first round of Selector. The series walking the plank are:
Drama!, by Paul Ruditis
Fabulous Terrible, by Sophie Talbot
Fashion-Forward Adventures of Imogene, by Lisa Barnham
Divas, by Victoria Murray
Gert Garibaldi’s Rants and Raves, by Amber Kizer
Tis a shame but there can be only one winner!
Those still in the running are nervously awaiting your Round Two votes:
Drama Club, by Peter Lerangis is wondering if it’s a bad sign that another Drama series didn’t make the cut; Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schrieber is quietly confident, since there’s both vampires and kisses in the title – how could that not be a winner?; Queen Geek Social Club, by Laura Preble would like to remind you that geeks are chic; Morganville Vampires, by Rachel Caine again points out that vampires are hot, hot, hot; and Inside Girl, by J. Minter says it’s a bit different, since the story is about a rich girl going to an average high school.
Those are your choices (fuller descriptions are here), so get voting. You’ve got until next Tuesday, so remember, if you don’t vote your favourite may go south!
Hello, happy Easter. Just a quick reminder to check out Selector, your chance to choose the next YA series the library purchases. You’ve got until Tuesday to vote in the first round – we’ll let you know which series has made it through to the next round next week.
We have a lot of book series in our collection, and many of them are very popular (proving that you can’t have too much of a good thing). So if you like vampires you will thrill to the ongoing Vampire Beach/Vampire Diaries/Buffy the Vampire Slayer series; if you like the rich and fabulous you will delight in the many Gossip Girls-type series; fantasy fans enjoy the Quentaris Chronicles; and action buffs can tremble with anticipation as the latest Alex Rider/CHERUB/etc. book is released.
There are a number of book series written for teens that the Wellington Library doesn’t get, however. Here’s a list of them. The recession means that we can’t get them all, unfortunately, so we’ve decided to make a game of it. A game we have decided to call Selector. We even made a logo an illustration!
The rules are this; read through the list on this page and decide which series you think that the library should get. The four that receive the most votes by April 14th (that’s the Tuesday after Easter) will go into the final. The final four will be voted out, one-by-one, each following week. The one that wins will be purchased, and one lucky person will get to read it before anyone else does.
Once you’ve read through the list, vote in the form below.
Round two has started; vote here.
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