Danielle Paige burst onto the scene a few years ago with her re-imagining of the land of OZ. In her new title "Stealing Snow" she has taken the fairy tale of "The Snow Queen" (think Frozen but the original story" and re-imagined it as a modern day pilgrimage of a young woman finding herself. The […]
The library offers many resources for students to help them improve on their research, studying, skill learning, memorizing, etc. Here are a few items offered from "Safari Tech and Business Books Online" that will make your studying and learning a bit more streamlined. Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies (2015): Just what are the ingredients of […]
The library offers many online resources for the use of our patrons. Here are a few online resources to help make your school life and education a bit more virtual. All of these items are available from Overdrive. How to Learn Almost Anything in 48 Hours (2016): Three-time Australian Memory Champion Tansel Ali reveals the […]
So many things that need to be said about the author Danielle Paige. First off her writing is sublime, so much attention to detail, so much plot going on and there are things you will never see coming that when you re-read the book you have to wonder – how did I not see that […]
Daniel Pinkwater, what can’this humble librarian say about this man who I consider to be an absolute genius? Well, first off it is a shame that he is not Stephen King famous or Stephanie Myers famous as I feel he has just as much to offer as they do. The man is akin to a […]
For those of you are are science fiction fans or fantasy fans, perhaps you have heard of Mr. Martinez, he is quite a talented writer. His first published novel; "Gil's All Fright Diner" is an epic read about Werewolves, Zombies, Vampires, Armageddon and fast food. Since then he has been writing and publishing fantastic novels […]
For the final 2016 Camp Blood installment we are going to focus on horror comedies or "horromedies" as they are sometimes called. All of the films listed below can be streamed through the libraries service of hoopla. Our first title is the camp classic and the original version of: The Little Shop of Horrors Not […]
Many great scary movies have been produced other than in America, this post will focus on more obscure and international horror films that some of you may not have heard of. The films on this list can be found either through the Criterion Collection or Hoopla. The focus on this blog will be directors who […]
At Camp Blood you can file creature features under either Science Fiction Horror or Natural Horror, either way you are going to get some great recommendations for scary movies to watch this festive fall season. A science fiction horror is a film that includes a creature or set of creatures and a situation that does […]
Continuing our theme of scary movies in the month of October for the Halloween festivities, this week we are looking at films that feature ghosts and haunted houses or haunted other things. But before we begin it seems appropriate to introduce some of the horror genre slang so that readers know what is being spoken […]