Drift Race

It is the most beastly book of all books I have read it twice it is amazing highly recomend.

ConnorOTK

Writing

Writing is an utmost fundamental, and a necessity in communication and expression. It translates between physical and mental states, in such a diverse artform - stocked with an abundance of brilliant colours and brushes at hand, thick and thin. To think, twenty six symbols that are the English language are able to create such wonderous works, never running out of words. I, myself, am an inexperienced writer, and so my ability is lacking practicality. With this, below is a series of various quotes by experienced writers; wisdom with writing. 


 E. B. White - "The process of writing is magical -- there are times
 when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across
 thin air, and it's absolute and utter happiness. Mostly, it's a process 
of putting one word after another."

Italo Calvino - "To write well about the elegant world you have to know 
it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not
 whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position 
regarding it."

Walter Benjamin - "The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea,
the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself."

Anais Nin - "Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great
terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances 
them."

Kurt Vonnegut - "The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is
 that you do not know what is interesting and what is not."

Mary Gordon - "However thoroughly we lose ourselves in the vortex of our
invention, we inhabit a corporeal world."

E.B.White - "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."

Ponder over these quotes, absorb them into your own chemistry. Though this may not be a lengthy article, it pays to keep things precise. My intention with these various quotes is to not inspire, but to strip you of your hesitation. Inspiration is not required to write, it is a mere concept. A pencil is enough, combined with a focused mind. Do not write for anyone else, write for yourself. Write not to impress anyone at all, and only for the sake of writing. 

P.S. I call the above structure a 'quote burger', as it has quotes in the centre, and personal remarks on either end. Would you like fries with that? 

- Andre

Check out what's happening at the public library in the holidays!

New Magazines for skateboarders and mountain bikers

 The Spring issue, September 2013

Deen Rakich takes cover honours of Issue 51 with a risky backside flip two storeys up. 

Element New Zealand head to Boomtown Perth with the likes of Mike Bancroft, Scott Lai, Chase Collins, Lucas Wotawa, Josh Gemmell and cover star Deen Rakich.

Justice Reid reaches a Turning Point, Stem Distribution get caught in a Spot Drought on their tour through the Coromandel, we interview The Gonz on 15 years of skateboarding with adidas and being a general legend.

Arto Saari is the Man of the Moment, we feature a 10 page gallery of his stunning imagery and he talks on where he's at with his skating and photography. We have the exclusive story from the Off Trail project with Corona NZ featuring Chris Wood skateboarding at The Remarkables Ski Area and Life's a Beach for our feature interview with Beach Thurlow-Meyer.

Also in this issue: Geoff Campbell, Mitchell McCarthy, Bryce Golder, Scott Olds, Jesse Abolins, Michael Knuckey, Andrew Peters, Municipal Waste, Jack Fardell and much much more.

 September 2013

It's been way too long since Issue 52, so we're pretty chuffed that 53 is out now. Caleb got to ride the new 2014 GT Sensor and Force  in Utah and Scott's new Genius and Spark lines in Switzerland (where he shot this issue's sweet cover image). The lucky bugger was also in South Australia where the Melrose Fat Tyre Festival was going off. Retallack, British Columbia is fast becoming a must-ride destination... We got all the dirt in words and images from Riley and Mattias. Also in this issue Leif got to tag along for an unexpected journey when Teva sent a bunch of their top riders down south for a team road trip. If that's not enough there's a heap of regular columns and inspiring stories and images.

New Books!

He's strapped to a chair. He's covered in blood and and bruises. He hurts all over. And a strange voice outside the door just ordered his death.  Part 1 of The Homelanders

Charlie West went to bed one night an ordinary high school student. He woke up a hunted man. Terrorists are trying to kill him. The police want to arrest him for the stabbing death of his best friend. He doesn't know whose side he is on or who he can trust.Part 2 of The Homelanders.

My name is P.K.Pinkerton and before this day is over I will be dead. My foster parents were scalped & killed a few days ago, on my 12th birthday....

Pay The Debt or lose a pound of flesh!

Colin Fischer doesn't like to be touched. Or the colour blue. he avoids eye contact unless absolutely necessary. BUT when a gun goes off in the school cafeteria he isn't scared. He's curious ....

Crete. 1941. Payback time.

From the sublime to the ridiculous, a hilarious collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen and embarrassing misprints

'Hark to the beating wings of the angel of death!'

In the time before the shooting I was Leah Jackson Sixteen years old I used to wish my life was different but nothing is ever that simple is it?

Kyla's memory has been erased, her personality wiped blank, her memories lost forever. She's been Slated.

She's sick of being nearly-but-not-quite grown-up, kind-of popular, almost good-looking. And she's sick of waiting for things to change. It's time to take matters into her own hands!

Charlie came through a dark mist with his head pounding and his stomach looping. Where was he? What had happened? had a bomb gone off?

Manga and Anime

Here are a couple of websites recommended by students:

Features all sorts of different Manga (cartoon books) and they are all free to read online. I have started reading Fallen Angels. Recommended by Library Kitty!

Awesome Anime videos with English subtitles - for free!! Recommended by Library Bob.

Something you won't find on your ebook!!

Divergent

If you loved Hunger Games then you need to read Divergent....

Read the book before the movie screens in 2014....