Holiday Entertainment!

Are you in need of a suggestion for a book or movie for the holidays? Our awesome library marketing assistant Abby has suggestions for you!

 

Take it away Abby!

Finals are here, and with them come the overwhelming feeling of the holidays. I wanted to look at books and movies to help me get into the holiday spirit.

 

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by Various Authors

Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbra Robinson

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn

The Christmas Train by David Baldacci

The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans

A Holiday for Murder by Agatha Christie

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davies

Krampus by Brom

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

It’s a Wonderful Life by Jimmy Hawkins

 

A Christmas Story

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Love, Actually

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Holiday Affair

The Polar Express

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

It’s a Wonderful Life

Home Alone

Elf

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Die Hard

Gremlins

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Frosty the Snowman

 

Be sure to check out the availability of these works here at the Gingrich Library! The holidays definitely have the potential for stress. I made this list so that I could have a quick reference of books and movies I can use to get into the spirit.

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Tis the Season!

Can you believe it ?! Crunch week is next week and finals the week after! How can you destress and stay calm during this time of year?

Thankfully our awesome library marketing assistant Abby has the following post to help you de-stress and stay calm!

Take it away Abby!

 

Finals are approaching quickly, and with them, comes absolute panic. I know that my number 1 way to relax is popping in a good movie or reading a good book, curling up under a comfy blanket, and eating my favorite comfort foods (mashed potatoes).

Be sure to take a look on Catalion to see if we have any titles that interest you.

 

 

Movies

Easy A

The Smurfs

Ratatouille

Crazy, Stupid, Love

Love, Actually

She’s the Man

13 Going on 30

The Devil Wears Prada

The Proposal

Mamma Mia!

10 Things I Hate About You

Legally Blonde

Clueless

What a Girl Wants

John Tucker Must Die

Pitch Perfect

Hotel Transylvania

Inside Out

 

Books

The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Attachments (Rainbow Rowell)

Wonder (R.J. Palacio)

Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)

Persuasion (Jane Austen)

Orlando (Virginia Woolf)

Notes from a Small Island (Bill Bryson)

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Kathleen Rooney)

The Young Widower’s Handbook (Tom McAllister)

Flâneuse (Lauren Elkin)

The Red Car (Marcy Dermansky)

The Wangs vs. The World (Jade Chang)

Small Great Things (Jodi Picoult)

The Versions of Us (Laura Barnett)

Girl Meets Boy (Ali Smith)

All We Ever Wanted (Emily Giffin)

Marriage Vacation (Pauline Turner Brooks)

How to Walk Away (Katherine Center)

Everyone Brave is Forgiven (Chris Cleave)

Relativity (Antonia Hayes)

Interested in Politics/Current Events?

It’s that time of the year when the weather turns! What better way to spend a cold night than with a book or movie! Are you interested in politics and current events? If so our awesome intern Abby has created a list of books and DVDs in the library that feature politics or current events. Check them out in Catalion

Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Lincoln starring Daniel Day Lewis

The West Wing Complete Series

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Richard III by William Shakespeare

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Roots by Alex Haley

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

How Will Capitalism End? by Wolfgang Steeck

Bad Feminist Essays by Roxanne Gay

The Benefit of Banned Books

Are reading banned books good for you? Let’s hear our marketing assistant Abby’s take!

When thinking of Banned Books, the benefits of reading them is always brought up as a question. I compiled a list of the benefits that come along with reading banned books.

 

1. Insight into the literary canon
2. Feeling super cool by doing something “bad”/against the rules
3. Help develop feelings and opinions surrounding topics that may not be discussed in school
4. Explore different view of the world
5. Read some of the classics
6. Be informed in discussions of censorship
7. Open up your mind
8. Challenge what you “know”
9. Realize the true power of words
10. Share and share and share the knowledge you gained from reading them

Read banned books, they’re good for you.

Best,

Abby

Dealing with Back to School

Our awesome marketing assistant Abby has crafted a blog post about the start of the semester! How do you deal with your stress?

Back to School Blog Post

 

Welcome back! With this August heat, our school days can feel like a mirage. But it is real! With the start of the semester comes events, recruitment, deadlines, and rising stress levels. I know coming back for my junior year definitely caused me to make a lot of panicked phone calls to my mom. While my first POPs weekend as a POP was incredible, I couldn’t shake the feeling that my time here is going far too fast.

Week 2 is already wrapping up. How do you stop feeling like days are only minutes long?

I compiled a list of 15 activities that I utilize to deal with the stress of college:

1. Take a 15-25 minute nap
2. Pop some bubble wrap
3. Go to Glow Yoga (first Friday of every month!)
4. Go to the library and pick up some DVDs you enjoy
5. Color in a coloring book
6. Paint on a canvas
7. Free write in a journal for 15 minutes
8. Put on music and dance it out
9. Make a meal with healthy ingredients
10. Call your mom
11. Read more books than you did in 2010
12. Meditate for 10 minutes, notice how you feel
13. Try to make 3 people smile per day
14. Declutter one spot in your dorm
15. Make lists of countries you would like to visit.

Even though this list may not fit everyone, it does contain short, easy tasks that anyone complete if they take the time to try.

 

Best wishes for the school year,

Abby