Books to Check Out: Ink Exchange, by Melissa Marr

Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey together. If he fails, bloodshed and brutality will follow.

Seventeen-year-old Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their intrigues. When she is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo of eyes and wings, all she knows it that she has to have it, convinced it is a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life.

The tattoo does bring changes - not the kind Leslie has dreamed of, but sinister, compelling changes that are more than symbolic. Those changes will bind Leslie and Irial together, drawing Leslie deeper and deeper into the faery world, unable to resist its allures and helpless to withstand its perils....

Sounds spooky!

Song of the Week: Dreams - Brandi Carlile

Every week on the blog, we're going to share a song that we here at the Worcester Public Library think you'll enjoy, whether it be something to tap your foot to or something to read to.

This week's song is a catchy one: Dreams, by Brandi Carlile. Just try resisting the urge to nod your head to the beat!

By Teens, For Teens: 'Inception' Review

By Brian Vinik

Christopher Nolan's follow-up film to his 2008 blockbuster movie 'The Dark Knight', titled 'Inception', is a mind-bending (or invading, rather) adventure that has thrills, amazing special effects, likable characters, and pretty much all of the elements that make a good movie.

The film follows a man named Dom Cobb ('Titanic''s Leonardo DiCaprio), who is an expert in the practice of inception - that is, using special technology to enter the dreams of sleeping people and either implant or extract ideas or information. When a man named Saito (Ken Watanabe), head of an energy company, comes to Cobb, he asks him to perform inception on the heir (named Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy)) to an energy empire on the verge of a takeover of the entire business. The goal would be to try to convince the heir to break up his dying father's empire upon inheritance. In exchange, Cobb will be allowed back into the United States a free man, as opposed to being internationally on the run for being accused of a crime he did not commit.

Cobb gets together a team of people to help him with the inception, including a college student named Ariadne (Ellen Page) who is determined to find out a secret Cobb is hiding. Together, the team enters Fischer's dreams during a ten hour flight and encounter mental security, gunfights, car chases, and much more action and adventure.

I highly enjoyed 'Inception', and I highly recommend it to any fan of science fiction or action/adventure.

By Teens, For Teens: "Favorites Megamix"

This is a remix video and audio-wise by library Teen Advisory Group (TAG) member Brian Vinik - it combines artists Shakira, Michael Jackson, and Ofra Haza into one piece. Join TAG and share your own creations! We'd love to share them here on the Teen Blog.

Welcome to the Worcester Public Library Teen Blog!

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We would like to welcome you to the official blog of the Worcester Public Library Teen Zone. Here you will find interesting articles we find, book discussions, works from the library's own teens, along with updates regarding library activities for youth. Check back shortly for more posts!

The Blog Staff