Awesome Browser Game

If you are like me and love strategy defense games, then you are going to love Kingdom Rush.  It is by far the best tower-defense game I have played online.  It’s fun, challenging, and also innovative.  In normal tower-defense games, you build static weapons and then apply upgrades, but Kingdom Rush shakes it up a little by allowing you to build a “barracks” which then in turn builds units that run around a specific area fighting enemies.  It’s a fresh approach to what is often a static genre of games.  The skill tree is also fun and varied.  Usually, skill trees are just damage or range increases for units, but the developers included some fun ones that you don’t always see.  And most importantly, it’s not nearly as repetitive as other web based tower-defense games.  Every level is a new map and often contains new enemies.  A strategy that worked on the previous level will probably have to be changed to deal the new challenges.  All this combined has made me obsessed.  Play at your own risk!

Edited: December 28th, 2011

Gandalf and Bilbo are back, again

Edited: December 22nd, 2011

Library Closing

Edited: December 22nd, 2011

New Teen Phobias

The blog McSweeny has posted a whole new list of phobias for the modern teen.  Do you have any of these?

Intextophobia: the fear that you just sent a text to the wrong person.

Entextophobia: the fear that you may send a private text to everyone you know.

Zonotophobia: the fear that you cannot text because the wireless is down.

Juvenophobia: the fear that you will be the last of your friends who is allowed to text.

Mytextophobia: the fear that everyone will move on just as you figure out how to text.

Thumophobia: the fear that you will lose the ability to text in a freak kitchen accident.

Czechophobia: the fear that your text will be spell-checked so as to be unintelligible.

Fopahophobia: the fear that your text will be spell-checked with an embarrassing word substitution.

Bebacophobia: the fear that your text partner will never return from the restroom.

Edited: December 15th, 2011

Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament

Don’t forget…there is a Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament @ the library today, December 10 at 1:30 pm.  Be there!

Edited: December 10th, 2011

Read the Abe’s

“Read the Abe’s” is a new series were I, your friendly, neighborhood librarian, highlights an Abraham Lincoln Award nominee every week.

Only one word can do World War Z justice and that word is AWESOME!  I haven’t read too many zombie books before, but this one blew my mind.  I loved every minute of it.  The book is a sort documentary. Unlike most zombie movies or books, it takes place after the fact.  Every chapter is a story told from a different perspective detailing the person’s unique experience during the zombie apocalypse.  The stories range from everyday people and their struggle to survive to soldiers recalling battles fighting huge swarms of “zack.”  Each one as interesting and fun as the last.  I really enjoyed the documentary style with this book.  I thought it made the book flow well.  I also appreciated all the different perspectives.  Most zombie stuff deals primarily with normal people trying to survive, but World War Z tells the story of doctors researching zombies and politicians trying to organize the survivors.  The book’s scope is much larger than what I am used to.  So if you have looking for an fun, gruesome, and action-packed read, I would definitely recommend World War Z.

PS – World War Z will be coming out on the big screen next year starring Brad Pitt.
Next up: The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Edited: December 8th, 2011

One, Two, Tie* My Shoe

Cool diagram on different ways to tie your shoes I found on the web that I though I would share…

PS – Click on the image and then zoom to better see the instructions.

Edited: December 7th, 2011