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Don’t be spooked, join us on Thursday, October 30th at 1:00 pm for a workshop on Preventing Fraud and Scams presented by Minnesota Aging Pathways. Please call the library at 218-283-8051, or stop by to register for this presentation. No limits on the number attending, but the presenter would like to know how many are coming so she can have enough copies of the information.
Saturday Storytime in November will be the first Saturday, or November 1 at 10:30 am. We’ll read stories, share rhymes and songs about pumpkins and apples all followed by play time with our early learning toys. Sorry for the change, but I get to go meet my new grandson the next week. Storytime continues on Thursday mornings at 10:30 am. Thursday, November 6th the storytime will be simplified with one story and the bean bag song before play time.
The next reading challenge is to read a book with a primary color (red, yellow or blue) on the cover. There are lots of options available but here are a few that we found The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden, The Guest List by Lisa Foley, The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin or Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green. You could also read Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Yellowface by R. F. Kuang or The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich.
The fun of these challenges is to find a book that you’d enjoy reading that fits the challenge. That sometimes means being creative and sometimes means exploring titles outside of one’s reading comfort zone. Both are fine, read what you want, just read. Read a few minutes each and every day to keep the brain engaged and to lower stress levels.
Download the ‘ALS Library App’ to search the catalog, request books and see your library account and when material is due. If you have kids you can also link the cards and see what everyone has checked out on their cards. This app replaces the older app which no longer functions, so if you haven’t downloaded a library app in the last four or five months, please switch to this app as the older app doesn’t update what you have borrowed any longer.
As we end the month of October, fans of scaring themselves are in their element. Those of us who see no reason to scare ourselves as the world is plenty scary on its own can hardly wait for November and gratitude month. In the meantime, here is a horror novel and a thriller to wind up the month of scares. Kylie Lee Baker’s new novel Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng is the story of a woman who cleans crime scenes, but can’t escape what she’s seen. A new Minnesota author writing about secrets in small town Minnesota is Joshua Moehling with his first novel And There He Kept Her.