The Vampire Diaries

Are you already hooked on The Vampire Diaries TV show?  Find more juicy details about Elena, Stefan, and Damon in the books by L.J. Smith.  We have the first two books, The Awakening and The Struggle, now available at the library, and the next two, The Fury and Dark Reunion, are being processed.  Don’t let the drama end!  Check out the books now at the library.

Chicago Comic-Con 2009

Hey everyone! This is Tressa. I’m taking over Katie’s blog for just a moment. A couple of weeks ago I went to the Chicago Comic-Con and it was unbelievably awesome!  The whole conference floor was jammed pack with comic book collections, games, specialized toys, t-shirts…you name it, it was there!!!

The best part was seeing everyone dressed up in costumes. Before you even got into the conference area, people were walking around dressed as characters from Star Wars, Batman, Spiderman, Watchmen, etc.  Next year I am totally dressing up! 

 Another fun part was seeing some somewhat-famous celebrities:  Michelle Rodriguez (“Anna Lucia” from LOST) was there; Peter Brady from “The Brady Bunch”; Ray Park (Darth Maul), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) and Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrission) from “Star Wars”; the original Incredible Hulk, Lou Ferrigno; …oh, and some kid named Cameron Bright who will be Alec, one of the Volturi, in the next Twilight movie. 

 Anyway, it was a ton of fun!! If you guys ever get the chance to go, it is definitely worth it!!  More pictures after the jump…

A new hero for TV

Have you heard that Stan Lee and Showtime are developing a show based on Hero by Perry Moore?  The book is about Thom Creed, the gay son of a disowned superhero, who finds that he, too, has special powers and is asked to join the very League that rejected his father.  More details at The Escapist.

Don’t be the last one to read the book! Hero by Perry Moore is available at the library in the young adult fiction.

To future Olympians

If you aren’t watching the Olympics, you may have missed the silver-medal winning swim of Lake Forest’s Matt Grevers, but don’t miss your chance to cheer on other Illinois athletes!  Check out Brad Guzan, a soccer player from Homer Glen, Brian McBride, a soccer player from Arlington Heights, or Sean Rooney, a volleyball player from Wheaton.  There are plenty more great athletes from Illinois, and who knows what future Olympians are in our midst. 

Go to www.nbcolympics.com for all the background info on the athletes, as well as streaming video covering just about every event.  The Summer Olympics come just once every 4 years, so enjoy while it lasts!

Katie

Oh TV, how I’ve missed you…

Yeah, yeah, I know. This is a library blog.  Isn’t it all about the books?  Well…this week, not so much.  I totally understand if all you want to do this week is check out the new TV shows – I know that’s what I’m doing. 

My new guilty pleasure: Gossip Girl (based on a book series, so that counts, right?).  And I’m kinda liking Reaper, about a kid whose parents sold his soul to the devil, so now he has to be the devil’s bounty hunter.  Pretty funny!  Oh – and Heroes is back!  I may have to check it out this season; Tressa tells me how great it is. 

Tell me what you’re into this fall, or if you scorn TV and all it stands for…

Katie