• Monday: School is closed, but the library's open! Come in and get some books and DVDs to see you through the winter break.
• Tuesday and Wednesday the library is closed for the holiday.
• Thursday: The Knit and Crochet Club meets at 6:30 p.m.
• Friday: LEGO Building will be offered at 4 p.m.

Happy holidays to all!

 

If you missed last week's orientation sessions for the new season of Books Alive!, no worries! You can stop in the library and ask for an application at the circulation desk. But act soon - there are only seven spots left!
The children's theater company will be performing Magic and Mayhem Saturday, March 29. Material will be used from Alice in Wonderland, Where the Wild Things Are, and Aladdin. With directors Adrienne and Jim Perine once again at the helm, and Barbara Ganin composing and performing the show's score, 2014 promises to be the program's best year to date!
Practices begin at Wallkill Reformed Church's fellowship hall Jan. 7, and will be held from 3:30-5:30 p.m. on either Tuesdays or Wednesdays each week, depending on the scenes being rehearsed.
A special treat is in store for participants this season - an all-expense paid trip to see a Broadway show in April, with a pizza party to follow.
For more information, contact Adrienne and Jim at (917)656-7945, or email them at dramapearl@aol.com.

 

Edgar Allan Poe admirers won't be able to put down Lynn Cullen's latest novel.
Mrs. Poe isn't so much about the famous writer's wife as it is about the poet with whom he likely had an affair. That would be Frances Osgood, who in the book is as much attracted to Poe as she is to the idea of being as popular a writer as he. Since both Poe and his naive, tubercular wife are fans of Osgood's, Frances begins visiting them at their home, inadvertently helping herself to a front-row seat to Mr. Poe's own tragic downfall.
What adds to Mrs. Poe's appeal is that it's peppered with such fascinating historical characters, including American journalist Margaret Fuller and the infamous abortionist Madame Restell (who was depicted earlier this year in Kate Manning's My Notorious Life). If ever there was a time to be a writer, this period of American Romanticism would probably be it. Not until the days of Hemingway and Fitzgerald would so many legendary American scribes (Whitman, Poe, Longfellow, and others) coexist as rivals, a  bundle of insecurities laid bare by their own petty scrutinies and ruthless critiques. Because we're reading this in 2013, we know what becomes of them - we know they should relax. But in Cullen's book they're just your average humans (with divine talent, of course), vulnerable to a fault.
In other words, Mrs. Poe is a winner. Pick it up at Wallkill Public Library today!

When school's closed because of the weather and you're wondering if the library's open, take a peak at the Wallkill Public Library website. We post information regarding our hours for the day (if they're changing) in the upper left-hand portion of our homepage. If there's nothing there, it means we're open!

Oprah's Book Club 2.0, the revival that continues in the footsteps of the wildly popular televised version that aired during Winfrey's talk show days, has a new pick.

Sue Monk Kidd's The Invention of Wings marks 2.0's third selection since June 2012, when Oprah announced she was starting a new club. Her previous picks were Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, and The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis.

The Invention of Wings, penned by The Secret Life of Bees author Kidd, was inspired by the true story of Sarah Grimké, an early-19th-century abolitionist and suffragist. The book alternates between her story and that of Handful, a slave in the Grimké household.    

Due for a Jan. 7 release, The Invention of Wings will be on the shelves of the Wallkill Public Library soon!