Thursday, June 15, 2023

My Favorite Digital Badges!

Recommend a Book to a Friend

I got this one from my kid's game board. I think it's so cute! It looks like an egg yolk! XD

The Summer Reading Program challenge

Have you seen everything the Summer Reading Program has to offer? There is always something new to discover! Complete 2 activities for 20 points and a badge.
When you complete 2 tasks, you will earn 10 points and a badge.

It was basically doing stuff on the site.

Challenge: All Together Now Starts With You

Complete 2 tasks to earn bonus points and a special badge
When you complete 2 tasks, you will earn 20 points and a badge.

The tasks were relaxing and reading and such.

HOLD challenge

Learning how to use the library's hold system is a great way to get the books, movies, and music you have been waiting for. Place items on hold to earn points in the Summer Reading Game!
When you complete 4 tasks, you will earn 40 points and a badge.

This challenge was all about placing different types of book on hold at the library.

Not only are you an amazing reader but you have pay great attention to details! You have been awarded 50 bonus points for spotting this code on the Phoenix Public Library website! Well done! Keep on reading and get to that finish line!

There was a secret code on the Phoenix Public Library website and I found it!

Visit the Library Website

I got this one from my kid's game board.

Supervisor Galvin's Arizona Challenge

Did you know that Maricopa County has 14 parks for you and your family to visit? The parks all have the biodiversity and natural resources that make the Arizona desert special. Take a hike and learn more about Arizona's desert and the Maricopa County parks by completing 2 tasks for 20 points and a badge.
When you complete 2 tasks, you will earn 20 points and a badge.

Challenge: Be a Good Neighbor

Join the City of Mesa's Diversity and Community Engagement Department in their Be a Good Neighbor Challenge! Complete 3 tasks to earn 30 points.
When you complete 3 tasks, you will earn 30 points and a badge.

Challenge: Visit Phoenix Public Libraries

Phoenix Public Library System has served the valley for 125 years! There are 17 locations throughout the valley. Visit some branches you have not been to before and discover new favorites! Visit any 10 of the 17 locations for 100 points!
When you complete 10 tasks, you will earn 100 points and a badge.

Challenge: Amazing Authors!

Enjoy these books by amazing authors. Check them out from your library today! Read or listen to one book to earn 10 points. Disfruta de estos libros de autores increíbles. ¡Consíguelos en tu biblioteca hoy! Lee o escucha un libro para ganar 10 puntos.
When you complete 1 task, you will earn 10 points and a badge.

Challenge: Chandler Public Library's Road Trip Across the U.S.A. - YA Fiction Booklist

Travel across the United States with these Young Adult books! Download the "Road Trip Across the U.S.A." map, then read any two titles.
When you complete 3 tasks, you will earn 10 points and a badge.

I liked this challenge idea.

Challenge: Library Photo Op

Have your picture taken in the "Be the I in KIND" photo op at Fountain Hills Library.
When you complete 1 task, you will earn 10 points and a badge.
Have your picture taken in the "Be the I in KIND" Photo Op at Fountain Hills Library.

I kinda wanna do this! =D

Challenge: Let's Connect

Friendships and connection add meaning and can even benefit your health!
When you complete 1 task, you will earn 10 points and a badge.

Look how adorable they are!

Challenge: Chandler Public Library - Graphic Novel Booklist

Explore the genre of the graphic novels this summer! Read 2 books from the list to complete this challenge.
When you complete 2 tasks, you will earn 10 points and a badge.

This logo is so cute!

Challenge: Spooky Summer: Ghosts

Discover the darker side of the library this summer. Grab your ghost hunting gear and explore 2 of these ghost stories.
When you complete 2 tasks, you will earn 20 points and a badge.

Those boos are so cuuute!

Challenge: Slow But Steady

If you like to take your time sinking into a story and want to live there for a while, try one of these books close to, or over 500 pages. Luckily, our program tracks minutes read so you get a lot of minutes out of one story! Read one book for 10 points and a badge.
When you complete 1 task, you will earn 10 points and a badge.

Write a Thank You Letter to a Community Helper

Hooray! I got this one from my kid's game board. So cute!!!

Ask a Family Member About Their Favorite Book

Amazing! I got this one from my kid's game board.

Attend a Library Program

Excellent! I got this one from my kid's game board.

Read a Biography

Just keep reading! I got this one from my kid's game board.

Learn Something New Using a Nonfiction Book

Hooray! I got this one from my kid's game board.

Tell a Friend About the Summer Reading Program

Excellent! I got this one from my kid's game board. The cutest books ever!

Read Out Loud to a Friend

readaloud was the secret code, but it looked like I already used it already for something else. I got this one from my kid's game board. But I still love this one!

Ask a Librarian a Question

Just keep reading! I got this one from my kid's game board.

Amazing! 2,000 points!

6/15/23, Your paragraphtext, certificate2.pdf

This is the first year in the Summer Reading Program history that they offered a 2,000 points certificate! That is so awesome!

Website Finds! (Both Phoenix & Glendale)

📜 Yay! I did it!

6/14/23

I've earned 1,000 points and a free book!

This is an absolutely beautiful logo I saw when I was picking out my free book. I love it!

Challenge: Write Your Own Adventure

* Develop a character, it can be a person, an animal or a thing.

My character will be a person. They are a happy go-lucky type of personality. Their name is Shely.

* Choose a setting, it could be anywhere at any time!

My setting is contemporary and is in New York City.

* Describe an event, something that happens in your story.

Something that happens in my story that is an event is that she lives in Manhattan and visits a coffee place.

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Adventure Awaits with Summer Reading!

Cute ad from Discord!

AleBooks

This is a book that Ale read and I saw it so I took a pic of it.

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Glendale Public Library Insider for June 2023

Summer Reading Begins Today!

Sister Summer Book Club is about to read The Picture of Dorian Gray!

So exciting!

Reading Sign!

So I went for an hour walk on Friday, June 9, 2023 at around 8 p.m. I walked the entire Grand Canal Linear Park and walked to the next park called the Heroes Regional Park. Then I walked to the Heroes Regional Park Library and saw this absolutely adorable gem! I just had to take a picture of it to post on my reading blog because I am participating in the Summer Reading Program!

Review: Faraway: Fairy Tales for the Here and Now

Faraway: Fairy Tales for the Here and Now by Rainbow Rowell
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I finished this audiobook on Saturday, May 28, 2023 at 7:34 p.m. while we were driving to Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México. This audiobook was a part of the AudiobookSYNC Summer program of FREE audiobook for teens 13+. It was in the following category: CLASSICS REIMAGINED FOR OUR TIME 2023 WEEK 2: MAY 4 - MAY 10.

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Faraway: Fairy Tales for the Here and Now (Faraway 5 Book Collection) by Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author), Nic Stone (Goodreads Author), Soman Chainani (Goodreads Author), Ken Liu (Goodreads Author), Gayle Forman (Goodreads Author), Rebecca Lowman (Narrator), Kimberly Woods (Narrator), Jess Nahikian (Narrator), Alexander Cendese (Narrator), Michael Crouch (Narrator), Neil Shah (Narrator)

I read this audiobook on this app called Sora. I love free audiobooks!

Review: IWTV Movie Script (April 1992)

Interview with the Vampire (April 1992-Second Draft) by Anne Rice-Notes & Highlights

I've always wanted to read the script because I saw a video where someone said that there were some exclusive new stories in here, and there were! I just Googled it and found this. I finished reading this movie script on Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 11:58 a.m. I read it whenever I was bored. I really liked the extra little scenes throughout the script. I read it on this Android app called ReadEra.

IWTV Movie Script

Louis looks at the stars. He is soothed by the breeze.

*****

She spits blood at his feet.

Woah! For real? Damn!

*****

Claudia kisses him on the mouth. She draws back, bites into her tongue, and when the blood flows, she kisses him full on the mouth again. He closes his eyes, receiving the kiss, and then he pulls away holding her.

Damn! Forreal tho? Ewwwwwbcjandbdjndndncnjs I feel weird about that!!!!! Something similar to this blood kiss happened in Blood and Gold with Marius and Thorne. I was like damn too!

*****

Lestat tries to follow, but can only express a faint happiness at the sight of Louis.

Aohwhhh 🥹

*****

He pauses before a Gericault. The Wreck of the Medusa.

*****

LOUIS (V.O.) Every memory of Lestat I'd ever buried in my soul came back to me.

Oh, I'd never really forgotten him, but now he crowded everything from my mind. He became my obsession.

LOUSTAT! 😍

*****

Now I wanted to return to New Orleans. Finally I could think of nothing else.

The idle dream that if he existed still, he might be there. And I wanted to see my home again. My city. Where we had been so happy all those years. It was a reason... for existing.

Awww so cute! I love this quote about New Orleans! 💜

*****

One tiny candle stands beside him. He reads:

The Black Mask Magazine. 1929.

*****

He reads aloud the second installment of Dashiel Hammett's, The Maltese Falcon

*****

Come into my parlor, Louis, said the spider to the fly.

Hey! That's a The Cure quote from their song called Lullaby!

*****

Loud noise from the street of TRUCK RATTLING BY.

Lestat shivers, covers his ears. He's terrified. He crosses his legs Indian-style and bends over.

LOUIS Lestat, it's only a truck passing.

Oh my gosh! I literally heard a truck passing by as I read this! That's so funny! Ha! XD

*****

LESTAT Some night, something will rouse my curiosity. Give me a reason to rise and become the vampire Lestat again. But not you, Louis.

You remind me of too many things.

😭

*****

EXT./INT. RUINED MANSION - NEXT NIGHT

OMG! This whole scene is SO adorable!!!!! I love it so much!!!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹

*****

He holds the little Watchman like a treasure, singing in perfect pitch the words of MADONNA'S song.

LESTAT 'Like a Virgin, kissed for the very first time.'

Lolz OMG XDDDD

*****

Lestat, a skeleton in rags, dancing as he wears the earphones and holds the Watchman.

We hear a very THIN SOUND from the earphones: ROLLING STONES. "I Can't Get No Satisfaction." Lestat dances with eerie grace in perfect time.

🤭

*****

as he does the modern Michael Jackson-style move to perfection.

Reading books with ReadEra

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.readera&hl=en

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

The Smiths & TMI 😭

Oh, God! The Smiths reminds me so much of Clary and Simon from TMI! 😭 *ugly cries*

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Review: The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My last reading session was 21 minutes. I finished reading this book on Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 12:22 p.m.

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The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde-Notes & Highlights

So this is a Sister Summer Book Club book choice! Well, actually, we are going to be reading from my personal copy, which is the censored version, which is okay with me. I can read that book for a second time! But I was really really excited to read the uncensored version. I've never read that version before. I borrowed it from the library and I am super excited to read it. I'm gonna be reading it with the accompanying audiobook on Hoopla. I hope to finish reading it before June 1st. I think I can do that since this version is shorter.

* So far I've noticed some differences in the storyline. I've read up to chapter 7. In this uncensored 13 chaptered version I noticed that Sybil killed herself by some poison. I don't remember exactly how Sybil killed herself in the main version, but I think she drowned herself like Ophelia did. Another thing I noticed was that Basil revealed a secret to Dorian. I can clearly see why they made him cut it out. All this gay love was too much for them Victorians! XD Basil basically confessed his love to Dorian and Dorian thought it strange lol. I'm just really glad that Dorian didn't kill Basil for this confession. Great! Now I'm thinking about Dorian/Basil fanfiction! Ahhhhh! XD :P ;P. I really hope that Dorian doesn't kill Basil in this version!

“The love that he bore him, for it was really love, had something noble and intellectual in it” (150).

I love that Dorian loves Basil back! <3

“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that would find their terrible outlet, dreams that would make the shadow of their evil real” (150).

I like this quote.

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities” (174).

I thought that this said insecure. But insincerity is true here too. It makes you think...

* Ah man! I really wish that Basil didn't need to die in this story!

“He sighed, and took up the book again, and tried to forget” (197).

“I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days have been your sonnets’” (212).

Interesting thought, Henry.

“It was better not to think of the past. Nothing could alter that. It was of himself, and of his own future, that he had to think” (214).

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

All Together Now!

This is the front page. My username is DeniseFigueroa.

This is the back page.

This page was featured in my reading journal. I got this cute flyer when I was picking up my book. It was in the shelves where you retrieve your held items.