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| LONGVIEW PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWSLETTER
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Fire it up! Adults, eighteen years old and older, are invited to read for prizes January 20 through February 28, 2018. Not only could you win great prizes from local businesses and organizations every week, but you can even win an amazing grand prize - a Kindle Fire HD! But wait, there's more! You can also use your completed entry forms to pay off overdue fines by up to $5 per book read or listened to! Longview, Kelso, Kalama, Castle Rock, and Woodland public libraries will be participating. Each library has different weekly prizes, and you are welcome to participate at one or all of these libraries! You do not need a library card to participate or win. This program has been made possible by generous donations from the Longview Library Foundation and our local business community. Need ideas for what to read? Try Beanstack, our book recommendation and reading challenge website, available at longviewlibrary.beanstack.org. You can even join our library staff's yearly You Can Reading Challenge, which we are sharing with everyone for the first time in 2018!
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| Have you missed story time? So have we! Story times are back from hiatus on Wednesday, January 17. We kick off that day with Mother Goose Time at 10:30, a bouncy, fun, sing and story time for babies and their grown ups. Preschool Story Time is held at 10:30 on Thursdays beginning January 18. Toddler Time is held at 10:30 on Fridays beginning January 19.
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| We'll be playing a 1980's set RPG called "Tales from the Loop" every other Saturday beginning January 6. Middle and High School teens are invited to attend an introductory session on Saturday, January 6, 2-5 PM. You'll learn about the world, learn game play basics, and start creating characters. Like games? Love Stranger Things? Come try Tales from the Loop!
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January 16 - Slime Bar
Make slime with a variety of ingredients and add ins!
January 23 - Stranger Things Escape Room
Can you solve the puzzles and escape the Upside Down? January 30 - Cloud Light
Transform a simple lamp into a light-up cloud.
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Maker Place
Wednesdays | 3 - 5 PM
for Elementary School Kids January 17 - Book Club:
Echo by Pam Munez Ryan
Discuss the book, have a snack,
and make an awesome project!
Recommended for kids in grades 3-5.
January 24 - Construction Zone
Drop in and build with LEGO, straws and connectors, cardboard tubes, and more!
January 31 - Game Day
Drop in and play board and card games! February 7 - Art Lab
Drop in and create a make-and-take art project!
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| You see them everywhere these days - gig workers. Some estimates show them as 34% of the work force: driving Uber & Lyft, renting through Airbnb, managing freelance software development projects, playing musical performances, and more. Through this SCORE workshop, you'll gain realistic insights as you participate in, or consider joining the Gig Economy. Learn about the issues of adaptability, time & money management, license & tax issues, and get the “rules of the road” that apply to independent workers and the running of a successful business.
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Book Sale
Thursday - Saturday, January 18 - 20
10 AM - 4:30 PM The Friends of the Library will have a wide selection of used books for sale - all at great prices! All proceeds support the Longview Public Library.
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Skaugsetting
with Library Director Chris Skaugset
With the coming of 2018 I thought I would share with you my favorite titles from 2017. Usually, I have one book that just stands out above the rest, but this year it seemed I read a lot of very good books but there wasn’t one that I just couldn’t stop talking or thinking about. In any case, here are my top books from 2017. And whether it’s a printed book, magazine article, blog, audiobook or eBook, I hope you all make a resolution to read more in 2018 and find good reads.
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Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
With the importance of current world conflicts and their impact on the peoples caught in the middle, to the change in the use of the term refugee and the emotions that term now brings to many, Hamid’s brilliant tale of star-crossed lovers and the appearance of “doors” that allow people to pass through them to another part of the world is a wonderful parable of our modern world.
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
I really love Lisa See’s books about her Chinese heritage and culture, and her latest is no exception. Her picture of rural China in the last century feels like hundreds of years earlier as she tells the tale of love, minority women, and the seemingly crazy world of tea.
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Glass Houses by Louise Penny
I’m sure you’re tired of reading my praises for best-selling Canadian mystery author, Penny, but every year she puts out really interesting mysteries that are filled with very real characters that you already know, or wish that you did. I’ve told people before that finding out who committed the murder is fine, but I really just want to get to see what my old friends are up to.
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
This is critically acclaimed short-story writer Saunders’ first novel. I love his short stories and was very much looking forward to this book. I must confess that the first time I tried to read this book I couldn’t get into it and stopped after about 50 pages. Later this year, after talking to others about the book, I picked it up again. The story of Abraham Lincoln’s dead son who is stuck in a sort of purgatory with a myriad of fascinating characters was well worth the second effort.
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Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
This was my first attempt at reading bestselling, critically acclaimed and all around super-popular YA author John Green. This beautifully haunting story about a teenager with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder took my breath away with its realistic, and often cringing, portrayal of a high school student trying to come to grips with the world around her and the one in her head. Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker.
Okay, actually I lied earlier. This was my favorite book from last year. I stumbled across it at a bookstore in Cannon Beach and was intrigued by the title. I found her oenological stories and adventures fascinating as it appealed to both the wine-lover and science geek in me and, in all honesty, sent me on a reading binge of related subjects.
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Longview Public Library is putting a call out for original 2-D Artwork for our 2018 Juried Show! Residents of Washington and Oregon, who are at least 18 years old, can submit artwork created after January 1st, 2018 for a chance to be in the May 2018 Juried Show exhibition and win a prize! The theme this year is “Bridges” and the deadline to submit artwork is April 6th, 2018. There’s no entry fee, and we will accept one submission per artist.
The grand prize is a purchase award of $500, and your work will become part of the Longview Public Library permanent collection. Visit http://longviewlibrary.org/cfe.php for the complete entry rules and show details.
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| Spanish Conversation Hour - Mondays, 12 - 1 PM
Rainbow Community - Mondays, 3 - 5 PM
Movie Night: The Lego Ninjago Movie - Tuesday, January 2, 6 PM
PageTurners: All The Light We Cannot See - Monday, January 22, 7 PM
Curl Up With a Good Book - Tuesday, January 30, 10 AM - NOON
Fiction Writing Class - Tuesday, February 6, 1 -3 PM
LongCon - Saturday, February 17, 11 AM - 3 PM
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