It’s National Library Week and we challenge each of you to rediscover your local public library. Aside from books, you can borrow movies, video games, music and even books for your e-reader.
Local libraries also have great resources like printers, computers and workshops that are easily accessible. The best part? At most public libraries, they’re free.
Concurrently reading A Game Of Thrones & The Voyage Of The Jerle Shannar: Isle Witch
“The nonreading children are the greatest problem in American education.”
- Glenn Doman, “How to Teach Your Baby to Read”
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I have to say something that I am sure will be massively unpopular, but I really don’t understand why there are Hunger Games parties, especially in school libraries.
I consider myself and educator first and a librarian second. This means that my primary role is not of…this is awesome! i agree
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I have to say something that I am sure will be massively unpopular, but I really don’t understand why there are Hunger Games parties, especially in school libraries.
I consider myself and educator first and a librarian second. This means that my primary role is not of…this is awesome! i agree
(Source: alpha-lima-lima-papa)
Notes:
“Ned had last seen the King nine years before during Balon Greyjoy’s rebellion, when the stag and the dire wolf had joined to end the pretensions of the self-proclaimed King of the Iron Islands. Since the night they had stood side by side in greyjoy’s fallen stronghold, where Robert had accepted the rebel lord’s surrender and Ned had taken his son Theon as hostage and ward, the king had gained at least eight stone.
“The first Lords of Winterfell had been men hard as the land they ruled. In the centuries before the Dragonlords came over the sea, they had sworn allegiance to no man, styling themselves the Kings in the North.” (Eddard, pg.35)
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” (Eddard, pg.37)
Notes:
“For centuries the Targaryens had married brother to sister, since Aegon the Conqueror had taken his sisters to bride. The line must be kept pure, Viserys had told her a thousand times, theirs was the kings blod, the golden blod of old Valyria, the blood of the dragon. Dragons did not mate with the beasts of the field, and the Targaryens did not mingle their blood with that of lesser men. Yet now Viserys schemed to sell her to a stranger, a barbarian.” (Daenerys, pg.26)
Notes:
“The heart tree,” Ned called it. The Weirwood’s bark was as white as bone, its leaves dark red, like a thousand bloodstained hands. A face had been carved in the trunk of the great tree, its features long and melancholy, the deep-cut eyes red with dried sap and strangely watchful. They were old, those eyes; older than Winterfell itself.” (Catelyn, pg.19)
“Catelyn had no love for swords, but she could not deny that Ice had its own beauty. It had been forged in Valyria, before the Doom had come to the old Freehold, when the ironsmiths had worked their metal with spells as well as hammers. Four hundred years old it was, and as sharp as the day it was forged.The name it bore was older still, a legacy from the age of heroes, when the Starks were Kings in the North.” (Cately, pg.20)
” His smile was gentle. “You listen to too many of Old Nan’s stories. The others are as dead as the children of the forest, gone eight thousand years. Maester Luwin will tell you they never lived at all. No living man has ever seen one.” (Cately, pg.20)
“Ned had fostered at the Eyrie, and the childless Lord Arryn had become a second father to him and his fellow ward, Robert Baratheon. When the Mad King Aerys II Targaryen had demanded their heads, the Lord of the Eyrie had raised his moon-and-falcon banners in revolt rather than give up those he had pledged to protect.” (Catelyn, pg.21)
Notes:
“The wildlings were cruel men, she said, slavers and slayers and thieves. They consorted with giants and ghouls, stole girl children in the dead of night, and drank blood from polished horns. And their women lay with the Others in the long nigh to sire terrible half-human children.” (Bran, pg.11)
“Lord Eddard Stark dismounted and his ward Theon Greyjoy brought forth the sword. “Ice,” that sword was called. It was as wide across as a man’s hand, and taller even than Robb. The blade was Valyrian steel, spell-forged and dark as smoke. Nothing held an edge like Valyrian steel.”(Bran, pg.12)
“Yet our way is the older way. The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you can not bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.” (Bran, pg.14)
“It’s no freak,” Jon said calmly. “That’s a Dire-Wolf. They grow larger than the other kind.”Dire-Wolves loose in the realm after so many years,” muttered Hullen, the master of horse. “I like it not.” (Bran, pg.15)
“Father frowned. “This is only a dead animal, Jory,” he said. Yet he seemed troubled. Snow crunched under his boots as he moved around the body. “do we know what killed her? A sudden silence swept over the party. The men looked at the antler uneasily, and no one dared to speak. Even Bran could sense their fear, though he did not understand.” (Bran, pg.15)
“You have five true-born children,” Jon said. “Three sons, two daughters. The direwolf is the sigil of your House. Your children were meant to have these pups, my lord.” (Bran pg.16)
“He must have crawled away from the others,” Jon said. “Or been driven away,” their father said, looking at the sixth pup. His fur was white, where the rest of the litter was grey. His eyes were as red as the blood of the ragged man who had died that morning. Bran thought it curious that this pup alone would have opened his eyes while the others were still blind.” (Bran, pg. 17)
Notes:
“The other slid forward on silent feet. In its hand was a longsword like none that Will had ever seen. No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with the moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed almost to vanish when seen edge-on. There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing, a ghost-light that played around its edges, and somehow Will knew it was sharper than any razor.” (Prologue, p.7)
“Will rose. Ser Waymar Royce stood over him. His fine clothes were a tatter, his face a ruin. A shard from his sword transfixed the blind white pupil of his left eye. The right eye was open. The pupil burned blue. It saw.” ( Prologue, p.9)
It’s National Library Week and we challenge each of you to rediscover your local public library. Aside from books, you can borrow movies, video...
I have to say something that I am sure will be...
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