Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Weekly Displays: Video Game Books and National Grammar Day

Our window display this week is "Video Game Books," prompted by recent purchases of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Reamde by Neal Stephenson, For the Win by Cory Doctorow, and the graphic novel Level Up by Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham.  It ties in nicely with our "Welcome to Dystopia" display too, since several of the video game books are set in a future world.  One of the additions to the curriculum this year was a video game design class, so we included some technical manuals as well.

Can you tell that my own video game references date from the '80s and '90s?


Ready Player One is a fantastic book; I highly recommend it.
Even though National Grammar Day fell on a weekend this year (March 4th), we have a table set up with grammar books and a "Correct the Celebrity" grammar quiz.


My personal grammatical pet peeve is the use of "who" vs. "that," so I really hope I get to correct someone today.

We asked "What's your grammatical pet peeve?" and were thrilled that so many people had such strong opinions.

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