Fiction:
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin: 4 books from A Song of Ice and Fire Series (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords and A Feast of Crows
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
New DVD: Easy Rider, with Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper
Comments by Youth Patron: Mylo McCormick, age 13, notes the value of reading Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events series after reading Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. He comments, "The Snicket series is quite cleverly funny. The author does not portray the events as seriously as Charles Dickens does in his novels like Great Expectations. Snicket ingeniously pokes fun of Dickens' writing style, and the old, soot- covered tales of Charles Dickens are brought back to life in a new form through Snicket's humorous tales about 3 orphans, and their plight through disaster after disaster."
Volunteer Librarian's Recommendation of the Week: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (as is often the case, the book is much better, and quite different, than the movie):
The Talented Mr. Ripley is considered to be a classic of the crime genre, featuring Tom Ripley, an agreeable and urbane psychopath who surely must be one of the oddest series figures in crime fiction. Patricia Highsmith is one of America's greatest, yet rarely noted, modernist writers.
