{"id":10591,"date":"2014-07-28T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/?p=10591"},"modified":"2014-07-28T00:04:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T04:04:55","slug":"what-would-they-read-parks-and-recreation-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/2014\/07\/28\/what-would-they-read-parks-and-recreation-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would They Read?: Parks and Recreation Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"parks-and-recreation\"The time has come to recommend more books to our friends in Pawnee.\u00a0 I feel like I might have left the more difficult characters for this entry.\u00a0 Last month, I chose books for Leslie, Ben, April, and Andy<\/a>. \u00a0So let’s get started and see what we have this time around.<\/p>\n

Tom Haverford<\/strong> – It is not difficult to select books for Tom. Basically, all you have to do is tell him that a celebrity endorsed the book and he would be all over it.\u00a0 However, I do think that is a bit like cheating.\u00a0 There has to be a book\"So that fits Tom’s personality and passion for the jet-setter life.\u00a0 There is a book– and it’s called So Yesterday<\/em> by Scott Westerfeld <\/strong>(a 2005 Best Books for Young Adults<\/a> selection).\u00a0 Before the name Westerfeld became synonymous with the Uglies series, he wrote So Yesterday.<\/em>\u00a0 In this standalone novel, Hunter has the responsibility to find the Innovators, people who start trends, and present them to the retail market.\u00a0 Tom, with his big ideas like Entertainment 720 and Rent-a-Swag, will love the adventure Hunter embarks on in a city full of unknown pockets of cool.\u00a0 Unfortunately Pawnee is not a hub of trendsetting activity.\u00a0 Tom can live vicariously through Hunter’s story.\u00a0 Another title that Tom may enjoy is Fee<\/em>d<\/em> by M.T. Anderson.\u00a0 In Feed<\/em>, it is commonplace for everyone to have a feed similar to the Internet directly inputted into your brain.\u00a0 The program learns your likes and dislikes and sends you advertisements customized to you.\u00a0 Tom would love having all of that knowledge at his fingertips.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ron Swanson<\/strong> – Ron likes the outdoors and eating meat.\u00a0 He also has his secret identity as Duke Silver, saxophone \"neverextraordinaire.\u00a0 I don’t know if Ron would even read books after his awful marriage to the librarian, Tammy, but we will give it a shot.\u00a0 When I think of Ron’s love of hunting and survival with limited supplies, two authors come to mind; Gary Paulsen and Will Hobbs<\/strong>. \u00a02007 Edwards Award winner<\/a> Paulsen’s most well-known\u00a0 series starts with Hatchet<\/em><\/strong>, the story of a young boy who must survive alone in the woods after his plane crashes.\u00a0 Hatchet<\/em> is a more popular choice amongst younger middle school readers.\u00a0 Will Hobbs has a variety of wilderness survival stories.\u00a0 For Ron, I would give him Never Say Die<\/em><\/strong>, the story of two brothers who, after their raft overturns on a river, get trapped with very little supplies in the Yukon Territory where a frightening half-polar bear, half-grizzly bear has been spotted.\u00a0 While I don’t have a specific title in mind, I would also like to hear Ron’s opinions on different dystopian\/post-apocalyptic books.\u00a0 Many of those books have no technology and the characters must rely on their own abilities to survive.\u00a0 That definitely sounds like a world Ron would want to live in.<\/p>\n

Ann Perkins<\/strong> – Ann is pretty much the normal person in a world of huge personalities and bizarre character quirks.\u00a0 Ann has \"boyfriendhad a variety of boyfriends including Andy, Tom, and Chris.\u00a0 Romance is not the most important thing in her life, but she is interested in finding someone to call boyfriend.\u00a0 I would bet that Ann would like to read books about comical romances, similar to her own dating past.\u00a0 Sometimes it’s better to feel like others have been through weird situations as well.\u00a0 I would give Ann The Boyfriend List<\/em> by E. Lockhart<\/strong>.\u00a0 Lockhart is always good for a laugh when it comes to the romance department.\u00a0 The first in a series, The Boyfriend List<\/em> focuses on the life of Ruby Oliver, a teen who recently broke up with her boyfriend and is now seeing a shrink due to her panic attacks.\u00a0 In addition to Lockhart’s book, I would also recommend Anna and the French Kiss<\/em> by Stephanie Perkins<\/strong>\u00a0(a 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults<\/a> selection) to Ann.\u00a0 Not only is there the coincidence of the main character’s name and the author’s last name, I believe this title would be enjoyable for Ann because it lightly discusses the transition between what someone thinks they want and what they actually need in a relationship.\u00a0 In Anna and the French Kiss<\/em>, Anna leaves her home in Atlanta to go to school in Paris.\u00a0 Anna is leaving behind a relationship, but then soon realizes what can happen if cuts the ties at home and looks at what is in front of her in Paris.<\/p>\n

Chris Trager<\/strong> – Chris is by far one of the most positive people, in real life and on TV.\u00a0 The first book I think of when I think about Chris is a book by Matthew Quick<\/strong>.\u00a0 Quick is mostly known for his book, Silver Linings Playbook<\/em>.\u00a0 That is not,\"Sorta\u00a0 however, the book I would give to Chris.\u00a0 I would give him Quick’s first teen novel, Sorta Like a Rock Star<\/em><\/strong>, a 2011 Best Fiction for Young Adults<\/a> selection.\u00a0 Amber Appleton is a teenage girl version of Chris Trager.\u00a0 Even in the face of adversity, she stays upbeat.\u00a0 There is an incident in Amber’s life that manages to stop Amber’s unending positivity, just like the incident in Chris’ life that leads him to therapy.\u00a0 These are two fictional characters with whom I would absolutely love to go to coffee or see a movie.\u00a0 It would be an unending amount of optimism.\u00a0 I would also like to appeal to Chris’ love of fitness.\u00a0 The second title that I would recommend to Chris is another 2011 Best Fiction for Young Adults<\/a> pick,\u00a0Fat Cat<\/em> by Robin Brande<\/strong>.\u00a0 In this book, Catherine changes her lifestyle to reflect the eating habits and daily routines of the hominims, the earliest species of man.\u00a0 Catherine changes to a paleo diet and walks as a means of transportation.\u00a0 I can see Chris using Brande’s book as a guidebook for changes in his own life.<\/p>\n

That’s it for the Parks and Recreation<\/em> crew.\u00a0 If you have any ideas for future entries, let me know.\u00a0 Next month, I plan to go back a few decades and choose a few titles for Eric Forman and his friends.<\/p>\n

-Brandi Smits, currently Reading: Chasing Shadows<\/em> by Swati Avasthi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The time has come to recommend more books to our friends in Pawnee.\u00a0 I feel like I might have left the more difficult characters for this entry.\u00a0 Last month, I chose books for Leslie, Ben, April, and Andy. \u00a0So let’s get started and see what we have this time around. Tom Haverford – It is … Continue reading What Would They Read?: Parks and Recreation Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,2295],"tags":[1671,1933,671,1024,2324,200,97,2512],"class_list":["post-10591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booklists","category-pop-culture","tag-e-lockhart","tag-gary-paulsen","tag-m-t-anderson","tag-matthew-quick","tag-robin-brande","tag-scott-westerfeld","tag-stephanie-perkins","tag-will-hobbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ddKk-2KP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10594,"href":"https:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions\/10594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}