Library is closed on Sundays for the summer
For Game of Thrones fans, George RR Martin has released a chapter of his forthcoming addition to A Song of Ice and Fire series: The Winds of Winter to be published by Bantam this year.
Read it on the author’s official website : http://georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html
The Happiness Project
Do the January Blah’s got you blue? Are you looking for some positive influences in your life? Do you make resolutions, then promptly break them? ”People always think that happiness is a faraway thing…something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.” Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Come join a positive group of fellow happiness-seekers at:
1:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 27
Menomonie Public Library meeting room
Together, we will set goals and cheer each other on as we achieve them. We’ll figure out what makes us happy, and get rid of the things that don’t (or, make them a lot more fun!). Based on the books, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin.
Intrigued but have questions? Call Heidi at 715-309-2118.
“Ring in the new year: The century is officially a teenager! What will you do with your 2013? January is that magical time of goal-making. Will you learn a new language or commit to the gym twice a week? More importantly, how many books will you read? Make a reading resolution with the 2013 Reading Challenge, and Goodreads will help you hit your target.”
Goodreads is the largest site for readers and book recommendations in the world with more than 13,000,000 members who have added more than 430,000,000 books to their shelves. See the full infographic on goodreads.
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You may be stuck inside this winter, but you can travel the world in Eight Girls Taking Pictures, the latest novel from Whitney Otto (author of How to Make An American Quilt). Otto’s new book spans several decades and various settings such as Paris, Berlin, San Francisco and Mexico as Otto’s female characters face the challenges of womanhood in the 20th century. All of the women are photographers, linked by their balancing acts as artists and career women in addition to their roles as wives and women. An exploration of feminism and family, Eight Girls Taking Pictures is a satisfying portrait of the intersection between family and art. |