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Kick off Icebox Days with a winter storytime on Saturday, January 17th at 10:30 am. Families with children under the age of 8 can enjoy wintertime stories, rhymes and more. Then families (or individuals) are welcome to join us for board game fun from 12 – 2 pm. Come enjoy a board game or two along with snacks and hot beverages.
Track Down a Book this year with our 2026 reading passport challenge. Read thirty books in ten different categories. The first category is fiction. Find new books, old titles you’ve been meaning to read, or whatever fiction strikes your fancy. Don’t limit yourself, be generous and check out several books if you aren’t sure which titles will hold your interest. Remember, we don’t know if you read the whole book or give up after 50 pages. We just want you to borrow books from the library and return them within four weeks and borrow some more. You are more likely to choose reading as a pastime if you have books around you that you might enjoy reading.
Elementary students continue to participate in the Winter Reading challenge. Visit the library and find graphic novels, non-fiction, fiction and audiobooks, then encourage them to read twenty minutes on the weekends. Make it a family time and everyone spends twenty minutes reading, or find a book to read aloud each weekend. Make it a chance to share something fun together as a family. There are wonderful books that could be read in a twenty minute setting, or pick up a couple and vote as to which each family member liked best. I love recommending picture books. So ask me for possible titles to read aloud.
Do you like knowing about the author and how they create their characters? If so, try Reacher by Lee Child for ‘the stories behind the stories’ including a new Jack Reacher adventure. Another new mystery that sounds fun is described as Nancy Drew for grownups. What happens when your favorite teenage detectives grow up? We Had a Hunch by Tom Ryan explores what might happen to teenage detectives 25 years later.
I know several people who love reading behind the scenes books and The Literati by Susan Coll provides a peak behind the literary world of author events and high society galas.
Fantasy readers tended to be few and far between, but it seems to be enjoying a renaissance and The Grimoire Grammar School: Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis, The Ordeals by Rachel Greenlaw and The Primal of Blood and Bone by Jennifer Armentrout fill niches in the genre, with cozy, romantasy and high fantasy with the classic battle of good versus evil respectively.
The library will be closed on Monday, January 19th in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, January 20th. Regular hours are Monday – Wednesday 10 am – 8 pm, Thursday and Friday 10 am – 6 pm and Saturday 10 am – 3 pm.