This is the archive for 17 March 2010
Hourglass by Claudia Gray
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061284416
ISBN-13: 978-0061284410,
Courier Books Editor
Lucas shifted until he sat next to me. His tall frame, well-muscled but wiry, made me feel small and delicate, and his dark gold hair looked brilliant even in these dingy surroundings. His warmth made me imagine that I was in front of a fireplace in winter. As he put one arm around my shoulders, I rested my aching head against him and closed my eyes. That way I could pretend that there weren't a couple dozen people around us, talking and laughing. That we weren't in some grey, ugly warehouse that smelled like rubber. That there was nobody in the world but Lucas and me. Into my ear, he murmured, "I'm worried about you.' "I'm worried about me too.' "Lockdown's not going to go on much longer. Then we can get you some---something to eat, I mean---and you and I can figure out what to do next.
That short excerpt is from the third book in Claudia Gray's
Evernight series, which follows the adventures of young students attending a high school for vampires. This came out on March 9th.
If I could sum up this book in one word I would go with "fascinating."
Posted by courier at 06:34 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
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MISCELLANEOUS
Happy Birthday to our 22nd and 24th President, Grover Cleveland, born this day in 1837.
Attention Students: As detailed in the Student Handbook, inappropriate displays of affection or sexual contact between two persons are not allowed. Parent contact will be made for those students unwilling to cooperate. Defiance of this policy will result in suspension.
Attention Students: The front parking lot nearest the new Performing Arts Center is for staff and visitor parking ONLY. Students MAY NOT park in this lot.
Posted by courier at 04:37 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By T.J. Matsumoto, Courier Sports Editor
The James Logan varsity baseball team continued their pre-season with a victory over visiting team Galena High School, winning with a score of 6-2. Galena came all the way from Nevada to play against three California teams. The Colts had a strong pitching effort by freshman Alex Martinez, who pitched 4 plus innings and only allowed two runs. He showed a lot of maturity by pitching out of a bases loaded jam with nobody out in the second inning. He got through the inning without allowing another run.
Posted by courier at 09:36 AM. Filed under: Sports
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By Allen Chan, Courier Staff Writer
Yesterday, our boy's varsity volleyball team faced off against Moreau Catholic High School to start off their league season.
What a start it was: they managed to defeat the Mariners in only three games out of five. The final scores from each game were the following: 25-24; 25-26; 25-12.
Posted by courier at 09:29 AM. Filed under: Sports
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Quirk Books
ISBN-10: 1594743347
ISBN-13: 978-1594743344
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith is a very unexpected book. I should start this out by saying that I have never read Austen’s original Pride and Prejudice, nor do I intend to. So while I can’t accurately compare the two books, I am quite sure the original does not contain much of the “ultraviolent zombie mayhem”, and I’m not even sure how much between the two plots is the same.
England has fallen prey to a strange plague in the novel, where the dead come back to life as zombies. Anyone the zombies bite and don’t kill also becomes a zombie. This plague creates the need for a class of zombie hunters sworn to protect the English population and exterminate the zombies. Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters are part of this warrior class.
Posted by courier at 09:23 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From wikipedia:
Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier, and the main organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. He became an advocate on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career; however, his homosexuality was the basis for attacks from government officials and agencies as well as from interest groups.
Learn more about Bayard Rustin, free from stateofthereunion.com.
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