Recommended Reading: Adam’s Terror Titles
(Jeff Milo, Circulation Specialist, May 1, 2015)
Hello and Happy Spring… We’re happy to introduce Adam Steinman, the newest Board Member serving the Ferndale Area District Library.
Steinman believes that a thriving library is vital and one of the best investments a community can make. “I joined the board because I want to get more involved in supporting the valuable shared resource that is the Ferndale Area District Library,” Steinman said.
Steinman has lived in Ferndale with his wife and daughter since 2007 and has been volunteering for various events and organizations in the community for the past five years. Steinman recently served as the Public Relations Chair for the Friends of the Ferndale Library.
An engineer by trade, Steinman has worked with highly innovative companies in roles requiring sound science and creative thinking. He has managed various projects and developed a knack for creating procedures that quickly render high, long-term returns.
After just one week on the Board of Trustees, he already had a list of Reading Recommendations…
Our next Board Meeting is Thursday, April 16 at 7 PM.
ADAM’S PICKS
The 2015 Ferndale Reads book, Bird Box by Josh Malerman is next on my list. I have heard it described as terrifying. If you like terrifying, you might enjoy these terrifying picks. One bird-titled book that previously left me lying awake at night was:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Fiction
Find it: http://bit.ly/1JlYOfK
When his wife suddenly withdraws and abandons him, Toru journeys through confusion, malice, solitude, power, and finally battles with the secrets of the past. The book has the signature charm and quirky blend of psychics, prostitutes, and cats that make Murakami’s work so delightful and easy to read. The second Sino-Japanese war is used to introduce the reader to atrocities that still bother me when I think about it. The events of the second Sino-Japanese war coincide in time and in terror with the events described in the last book I read:
Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance by Charles Novacek
Non Fiction (Biography)
Find it: http://bit.ly/1IHwfZa
The posthumously published memoirs of a Detroit engineer who grew up in Slovakia. As a young child, Charles’ father had promised him that the last war had been fought and that Charles would know peace. At ten years old he found himself a resistance fighter against the Nazi occupiers and after the Nazi’s, he was soon forced again to engage in espionage – this time, against the Soviets. Charles’ story is an intimate sharing of the events no young adult should never have live through, and most survivors of war don’t talk about. It left me hoping that my daughter would never know the fear of war. But it wasn’t too long ago when she seemed to like the scary stories in my next pick…….
Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day: Ben Loory
Available through Michigan Electronic Library: http://bit.ly/1GINASO
I started reading these short stories to my daughter because I heard a cute and uplifting one about a skydiving moose read on This American Life. So, while feeding my infant daughter her bedtime bottle, I opened up to a random story and began reading. However, the majority of the book deals with infinite darkness, creeping shadow beasts, and talking severed heads. About three or four stories in, I realized this wasn’t the right book for her though, the first time she slept through the night was after I read her the story that ended up with the narrator becoming death incarnate.
Edge Of Tomorrow
(Movie/DVD)
Find it: http://bit.ly/1Jm0eH2
After reading all of those scary books, it’s an alien invasion apocalypse in this Sci-fi action flick. The human race is pretty much done when Lt. Col. Bill Cage, a man with no ambition to be a warrior – finds himself killed on the front line… Only to wake up and relive the same day over and over again. It is the perfect blend of War of the Worlds, Starship Troopers, and Groundhog Day. Yes, it stars Tom Cruise. Get over it. He does a stellar job of playing the reluctant hero.
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