Riven’s Comments (group member since Nov 08, 2014)

Riven’s comments from the Staunton Public Library group.

In the summer we are ending our Sunday hours, but there will still be a lot of other times to have events. We can plan what do do for them here.

One way I found to make wands is to have chopsticks, construction paper and glue.
Just cover the construction paper with glue and place the chopstick on one corner then roll it, then once it dries you just cut the edges off and decorate with whatever you have on hand.
Seems really easy and we could bring any left over chopsticks to Anime club I guess.
And if we can't find chopsticks we can just find some other kind of sticks.

Read the first chapter of Magnus Chase to my youngest sister and we both really liked it. Don't have time to finnish the book untill the weekend though...*sigh*

Otaku Nation is a club at Robert E. Lee High School that we might want to reach out to. They have a blog/website here: http://clubotakunation.webs.com/about...
Mary Baldwin and JMU also have clubs I believe, but we're saving them for Comic Con type events.
So we are planning on watching episodes from Crunchyroll, reading manga(probably Fruits Basket)or assigning them to be read before the next meeting, possibly trying to draw some manga ourselves, and just in general have a book group about whatever we have been reading/watching.
Most animes/mangas are rated Teen or Older teen so we may want to restrict this club to a certain age level.
We want to have it in the afternoon after school (so definitely after 3 and maybe after 3:30 for highschoolers) but we dont want it getting to late (so before 7?) and we don't want it to be at dinner time which can range from anywhere between 4-6 which is our main time frame.
How long do we plan for the club to be?

That would be cool!

Maybe people who participate in Crafternoons can contribute one small thing to decorate the YA room, like the paper clips we earned during the Summer reading game a couple years ago.

Every 2nd Sunday

Anime group, new comics, your favorite manga series, any ideas?

With 5 younger siblings I'm very likely to check out Juvenile Non Fiction, and I've never checked out a YA non fiction so Juvenile non fiction tends to be more helpful to me when I want non fiction for reasons other than school.

I think moving the books is a good idea, but we should make a list of the Nonfiction books in the folder that has lists of 'Fantasy' 'Supernatural' books etc. and say that they are all in the Adult section so teens that actually want to read them can find them.

That would be cool and easy to do. Will we cut them out beforehand or something?

I've got the same, then there is one more review to write after that and I'm done.

I sent in one review. Two to go...

Haha that would be great! Though we might have to explain why we put that there so that non-theif people aren't scared away from the graphic novels :P

If you could do one and I'll do the other two, that would be great. I'll still do a third review just in case you can't, but I don't know the amount of schoolwork I'm going to have this coming week and I might not have time to finish the third. I'm deciding to do a review on Dreamfire(my ARC copy, YA), probably a Redwall book(I have a bunch of copies, Juv), and I haven't decided what to do for the third yet.

My summer school starts this Monday but I will see if I can write 3 reviews. Do they want one from YA, one from Juv etc?

Comics and graphic novels tend to be easier to carry away, and the sections of comics tend to be in a non noticeable spot because the library is for books mainly, not comics.

The Graphic novels get stolen some times...
But anyway, I have the same problem. I have a hold that's been on my card for about 2 years, I'm still number 2 in the queue list.

Villains would also fit with the "Unmasked" theme, so it's a good idea

I saw the last half of Maleficent, it was great! My whole family liked it, it would be a good choice for a family movie thing.