@ Your Library
Beat cabin fever by visiting the library. Join us for storytimes on Thursday mornings at 10:30am. Bring your craft supplies and join us the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays from 11 – 1 for Crafters’ Cafe. Visit the library anytime we are open and just sit and read under our full spectrum light which can help some people with seasonal affective disorder. Browse our shelves for new books, kids books, young adult books and more. Let us help you find something you’d enjoy reading.
We are just over halfway through January and I already feel like this year is getting out of control. I want to slow things down and enjoy each moment. Reading does help me slow down and gives me processing time as I read. I wish I had more time to read. I have too many other things to do, many of which I really enjoy, which makes it difficult. What do you cut out to do more of something when you think for the most part you are doing what you enjoy? Ah, the trouble with life and living. It is good to be alive. I am hopeful that Small Moves, Big Life: 7 daily practices to supercharge your energy, productivity and happiness (in just minutes a day) by Andrea Leigh Rogers will help me find balance and more hours in the day.
This year, I am going to try and reread most of the titles by one of my very favorite authors, Madeline L’Engle. I reread a couple last year and enjoyed them and have decided it is time to reread the rest that I have access to. I don’t reread a lot, but when I do, I love it.
I am also hoping to read lots of new books. Maybe someday I’ll figure out how to listen to audiobooks. I know how, but not how for me, I can’t focus on the story while driving, and I enjoy many podcasts while exercising, and I love reading physical books so at this time audiobooks aren’t for me. But we are adding a few new audiobooks on compact disc and a few more on Playaway. So if you listen to audiobooks and can’t stream or will be somewhere and can’t receive a stream, check out our collection of physical audiobooks.
A few non-fiction titles that I am looking forward to reading in the coming year include Michael J. Fox’s latest book Future Boy: Back to the Future and my journey through the space-time continuum. He focuses on the months that he spent his days taping Family Ties and his nights filming Back to the Future. Both the show and the film were iconic parts of my childhood and I look forward to learning more about the stories.
Stories about small towns almost always draw me in, add in a Minnesota town and I can’t refuse. I am really looking forward to Now Departing: a small-town mortician on death, life, and the moments in between by Victor M Sweeney.