Not for the faint of heart

In the Library, our staff reading tastes cover a variety of genres and styles. For your benefit, we like to share book and movie recommendations that reflect our tastes as well as things we think may be of interest to you all. This week's summer reading recommendation is one that has been very popular among the TVCC student body this year. One of our staff finally read the first book in this series and absolutely loved it.
The book...The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro. This is the first novel by Del Toro and the first in a series of three. Guillermo Del Toro's name may be familiar to some of you as a film producer of films such as Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, The Orphanage, Kung Fu Panda 2 and many others which have earned him three Academy Awards. For those of you who like his darker works, or are fans of horror movies, scary or suspenseful books, this trilogy is highly recommended.
The plot...

In one week, Manhattan will be gone.

In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world.

At New York's JFK Airport an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane . . . and what he finds makes his blood run cold.

A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like an all-consuming wildfire—lethal, merciless, hungry . . . vampiric.

And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here . . . (taken from Amazon.com)

Sound exciting? It is. From the first page you will have a hard time putting it down. It will make your heart race and distract you from food, life, work. So be careful when you pick it up, it is addicting.
The Library has The Strain (book 1) and The Fall (book 2) in print and on audio. The final book, The Night Eternal in the series comes out in October, so get put on the list and be the first to get it.
Looking for more Guillermo Del Toro? We just got in his most recent film and Academy Award nominations, Biutiful starring Javier Bardem. This is a haunting film about a man who is trying to navigate through life with his two young sons. He is a man with a criminal past that haunts him, but also a man who can see his own death which guides him. For this movie or any of our new DVDs, stop by the Library this week. If we don't see you, have a fabulous summer break!