Mercer County Library Blog

The Mercer County Library System Teen Advisory Board is full of talented teenagers. Throughout the year, these teenagers create social media posts, write zines for young patrons and write book reviews which are posted to the library’s GoodReads account. Please enjoy this recent review by TAB member Olamide, who loves the library as much as her books! If you’d told me that by the end of reading Unbroken , Laura Hillenbrand’s historical non-fiction that retells Louie Zamperini’s story of “survival, resilience, and redemption,” I would be sobbing at home on a random Monday at 11pm, I would’ve laughed, or maybe thrown you a skeptical glance, and gone about my day. In fact, even if you’d given me a heads up to the tearworks a hundred pages into the book, I still wouldn’t have given you the time of day. But there was something about the 200-page mark, the beginning of a depreciating life in Japan’s slave camps during WWII, that drew me in. My once hazy eyes refocused and Unbroken became