5: Programs & Events

These are very important for the community so people can get together, learn, and have fun. This is in the domain of the library and it already does a great job with them.

4: Creativity & Imagination

Almost everyone would agree that creativity & imagination are extremely important. They drive the future. The world needs new ideas. It would make sense for the library to promote this, since books are all about imagination.

3: Children & Families

I have many memories of the library as a child, and that was when I started to love stories (and readin g when I was old enough). I think it is an excellent idea to continue to focus on children and families at the library so they start to love it at a young age.

2: Ideas Exchange

What else can Iu say? I love ideas. The library could be a great place to exchange them.

AND #1: Place of Welcome

It is important to hae as many of these as possible. Some people just need a place to get away and feel safe and cared for. What better place than the library, that already offers support, and escapes like programs, and of course, books?

1. helping lifelong learning

2. housing special collections & resources to help people learn

3. having cool programs and events

4. helping the arts & culture scene in Calgary

5. having skilled information staff to help you

Helping lifelong learning is important because even as you get older, it's important to keep your mind open and discover new things.The library could definately help with this because it is about reading and learning.

Athena has always been my favourite Olympian, ever since I was first introduced to them in The Lightning Their. She is brave, kind, and most importantly, the godess of wisdom. In fact, she reminds me of both Harry Potter (Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Hufflepuff), and The Hunger Games (Katniss uses a bow). The most important reason I like her, though, is she is depicted as a strong champion for women, and the ultimate example of girl power.

I choose Alan Rickman. he played Severus Snape in Harry Potter. In that movie, Emma Thompson played Proffesor Trelawny. Emma Thompson also starred in Nanny McPhee. Nanny Mcphee had Kelly Macdonald as Evangeline. Kelly Macdonald played Helena Ravenclaw in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which also had Alan Rickman.

When I read The Mysterious Benedict Society, it seemed like the 4 main characters were chosen to make sure any reader can relate to at least one of them. I certainly could: everyone likes the main character for his kindness and intelligence, his friend, like me, was always reading and remembers most of it, and I liked Kate because she is the girl and is lively and has good ideas.

I already have a long list of books to read. By adding a couple of classics everyone should read at some point, I easily got to 100. So, in no particular order, here they are:

1. Keeping Corner

2. Fear (a Gone novel)

3. Among the Hidden

4. Rollback

5. The Truth About My bat Mitzvah

6. Run, Boy, Run

7. Choices

8. Divergent

9. Interworld

10. Great expectations

11. 1984

12. Romeo and Juliet

13. Breaking Dawn

14. Writing Magic

15. Under the Dome

16. Feed

17. Before I Fall

18. Flatland

19. From Eternity to Here

20. Drought

21. The 5 People You Meet in Heaven

22. The Lord of the Flies

23. Eve

24. War and Peace

25. A Story of Over 50 000 Words Without using the Letter E

26. Tom sawyer

27. Sarah Canary

28. Heavy Time

29. Foreigner

30. Engine Summer

31. Little, Big

32. Fire on the Mountain

33. Death therapy

34. Still Time

35. Crow

36. Animal Farm

37. Walden Two

38. Non-Stop

39. Report on Probability

40. Four ways To Forgiveness

41. Greybeard

42. Helliconia Spring

43. Ringworld

44. The Shape of Space

45. A World Out of Time

46. Nightflyers

47. A Song For Lya

48. Night

49. Just Six Numbers

50. We

51. Farenheight 451

52. Diary of a Wimpy Kid

53. Fire on the Mountain

54. Tourists

55. Dark Cities Undergroung

56. When Gravity Fails

57. Brain wave

58. Fire Time

59. The Angry Espers

60. Microcosmic God

61. A Rendezvous With Buma

62. The Seedling Stars

63. A Case of Conscience

64. The World Inside

65. The Space Merchants

66. the Bible

67. the Torah

68. other major religion books

69. Jem

70. The Case Against Tomorrow

71. The Left Hand of Darkness

72. The Lord of the Rings

73. Hucleberry Finn

74. Gulliver's Travels

75. 20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea

76. Treasure Island

77. the original Peter Pan

78. Pride and Prejudice

79. The Encyclopedia of Immaturity

80. Museum of Theives

81. The Devi's Arithmetic

82. Camp Confidential

83. The Girl's Book of Glamour

84. Climate Change

85. Pursuing Amy series

86. Pandora Gets Heart (pandora's Box series)

87. Gifted: Better Late Than Never

88. The Joy of spooking: Unearthly Assylum

89.  The Power of Six

90. The Lost Hero

91. The Red Pyramid

92. Belle of the Brawl

93. A Christmas Mommy

94. The Gift

95. Matched

96. Rowan The Strange

97. The Comet's Curse

98. Genius Squad

99. School of Fear: The Final Exam

100. Brave New World

I never realized before just how unoriginal the first lines from many books are. However, i did finally pick a winner.

Uglies: "The early summer sky was the colour of cat vomit."

I like the mishmash of this line. At first it seems romantic and dramatic, then catches you off guard by switching to something crude and ugly. In a way, this can represent the whole series.

2nd place: "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

This has a lot of foreshadowing: the use of the line makes it obvious that something out of the ordinary is going to happen. That makes it also slightly ironic and funny. J.K Rowli ng grabs you from the first line.

Honorabl Mention: Anne of Green Gables: "Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof."

You can check- that's all one sentence! I like this line just because it's so ridiculously long-winded. Back then, authours weren't afraid to challenge their readers.

Gone

Sam:in the book he is an angry teenager who, because of his leadership abilities, unwillingly ends up as mayor when the adults disappear. Oh, and he can also shoot light from his hands. Once the adults are back and he grows up a bit, he would make a good entrepreneur, putting that leadership to good use with something he actually wants to be in charge of. Alternatively, if he wants a mindless job (I wouldn't blame him after all he's been through), he could use his power to generate clean electricity and lights that don't use energy. I'd let him do surfing on the side.

Astrid: She's so smart she could be anything she wanted to, but she'd make a good biologist after studying the mutations.

Cain: Prisoner. Definately, This boy should be locked up.

Little Pete: If he could communicate with the outside world, he could put his great imagination to work as an engineer.

Quinn: Continue his fishing career.

Edilio: He doesn't like when kids have guns, but he would do well in the military when he's older.

Orc: Heavy work seems to do him good. He could do evacuation work, digging people out of the rubble. He would like to see the direct impact he has on helping people.

Drake: Mental institution inmate. This series has some sick kids.

Diana: I think she can reform. But What to do with her then? Surprisingly, I think she would make a good social worker.

Lana: She can heal people, and she's brave. But she doesn't like using her power. If she doesn't want to go into medicine, she could maybe go into troubled areas as a reporter or aid worker.

Albert: He actually likes leading and he did a great job with McDonald's. If he cleans up his act, he could start his own restaurant. To take advantage of his "creative" nature with limited supplies, he could go with Lana and help supply food.

Bonus: Hunger Games!

Katniss: Stubborn, smart, good at survival. Let's see... a contestant on survivor would be too easy, but she could teach other people survival and their families, or, better yet, team up with Gale to supply wild food to stores or restaurants or something.