We are now into our new year and your library has been busy with plans.
Since January, the Leighton Art Centre has turned our library into a mini art gallery with paintings by local artists. You can see their paintings till the end of February. Come and see if you can identify some of the landscapes.
The first week in February, Wednesday, February 5th from 3 to 5:30, young folk are invited to participate in a Deconstruction Laboratory where incapacitated electronic devices will be taken apart. As we all know, looking at inner workings can be very instructive. The bits and pieces will then be used in a Millarville School art class and you will be able to view their art in the library in the spring.
Of course our very own storyteller Kelley Nutbrown will be back at her usual last Thursday in the month, February 27 at 10am to tell some of her favourite stories to the preschoolers. Storytime always has something new.
Do you like to read magazines? We have two new subscriptions: Today’s Parent and Brain Space. You can check out our magazines just like our books, and we are looking for some donors. Maybe you would like to donate a subscription to a magazine? If so, just call Natasha Grusendorf, our Librarian, and help our little library out.
Our library would only be open two days a week if it were not for our volunteers. If you love reading you can help keep our library available by volunteering to help. Call 403.931.3919 and leave your name and call back number. You will be welcomed.
How about some book suggestions for these cold months when being indoors is easier than being out. One of the first book clubs to be formed in our area is The Country Dozen. This month they suggest The Gown by Jennifer Robson. It is a novel based on the construction of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding gown in 1947. It affords a unique look at postwar London. Mysteries are often a favourite genre and this month we look at the choice of the Macavity Awards. Yes, these awards are named after the mystery cat in T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and they recognize superior mystery writing. November Road by Lou Berney is available in our Marigold system. A runner up was If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin and it is available in Millarville. Gaylin’s book also won the 2019 Edgar awards, a mystery writers of America award named after… guess who?
Check us out at Millarvillelibrary.ca. To get to our fabulous book selection both locally and provincially, scroll down to “Your Library online.”
It’s easy to get a book sent to our library if we don’t currently have it by using this service right from your own computer. P.S. If you check out our site you will find out just how tall the largest snow woman measured was. She was phenomenal.
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