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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Fangirl  by Rainbow Rowell is a young adult novel about an 18 year old girl named Cath who is going off to College. She is a huge Simon Snow fan (think Twilight meets Harry Potter) and in her spare time she writes (really good) fan fiction about the two main characters. Cath is a packaged deal, with her twin sister, Wren (their parents named them Cather and Wren for Catherine) they both attend the same college together, unfortunately for them, they end up with separate roommates. While Wren flourishes in college, becoming a popular student and enters into the dangerous line between drinking and partying verses her school work, Cath is drowning. Her only source of comfort becomes her world of fan fiction with about Simon Snow. Throughout the book, we see Cath struggle with loneliness and being pushed into a whole new world without her sister there by her side. We see her struggle to make new friends and do well in her classes. We also see he...

I, personally have never played any type of MUVE (multi-user virtual environments) outside of the Sims. I have watched several friends or family play the ever popular game, Minecraft. Minecraft is a MUVE where the player becomes an avatar and creates their own world.  In game a player can't create their own avatar (think customization), but they have a few options to choose from depending on what system they are playing with. Minecraft is available for play on PCs, Xbox, and Playstation. Once inside the world, the players have endless options of what to create within their own personal world. My husband states that you can, "literally create anything you want." Players have the freedom to design buildings that replicate that of history, real life, or fiction, such as Harry Potter's Hogwarts or the Empire State Building. Within the game players have the option of raising a farm with animals such as pigs, sheep, cows, and chickens. They even can domesticate anim...

Comparing and Contrasting  Instagram and LinkedIn Two social media networks that I've used both professionally and personally include Instagram and LinkedIn. Instagram is my personal account that I use, whereas, LinkedIn is a professional account I use to keep up and maintain my connections that I've made as I've built my semi-professional career in Philanthropy and now in Library Science.  These two social media platforms are completely different in many ways. Instagram is built purely on the sharing, liking, and commenting of pictures and videos. LinkedIn is a social network similar to Facebook where you create a profile filled with your professional skills, past, and current jobs. LinkedIn works almost like an electronic resume where one can continually update it to best represent one's current work. Instagram, on the other hand, is considerably less professional. While it can be used in a professional regard (many businesses, schools, and libraries use Instagr...