Greetings from the Great Bend Public Library! Today, Jan. 15, at 5:30 p.m., it’s time for our next Teen Manga & Anime Club. For January’s club meeting, we’re keeping it low-key with popcorn and a movie.
“From the legendary Studio Ghibli and Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) comes a new critically-acclaimed fantasy adventure. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family’s estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito’s new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world and the truth about himself.” (Rotten Tomatoes). Copies of February’s title, “My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!” by Satoru Yamaguchi, will be available for pickup.
Keep the cold-weather blues away with our Winter Reading Bingo. Pick up your sheet, then complete the cozy objectives in a row of five and turn in your sheet by Jan. 31 to enter into a prize drawing. There will be prizes for Children, Teens, and Adults.
Next week, we start things off with a computer class at the Senior Center. Join us at 10 a.m. Monday to learn more about your phone, tablet, or computer. And of course, Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
Buckle up, cause Tuesday is a busy day! Starting things off, Story Time returns at 10:30 a.m. Then, bring your smart device-related questions to Tech Tuesday at 11 a.m. After that, we have Teen Café, chase the winter chill away with some fun, cozy games starting at 4 p.m. Last but not least it’s time for this month’s open book club starting at 7 p.m. This month, we will be discussing “The Fox Wife” By Yangsze Choo. Want to join in on the conversation? Grab a copy of the book at the front desk today. On Wednesday, we will be bringing our computer class from the Senior Center to the Library for a lunchtime lesson.
Lastly, it’s trivia time at Dry Lake Brewing at 7 p.m. Thursday the 22nd. Don the one ring and journey to the Prancing Pony (aka Dry Lake Brewery) for a night of Lord of the Rings Trivia. We will quiz on everything about hobbitses, precious, our precious, GIVE US BACK OUR PRECIOUS! Ahem, sorry our inner Golem came out there for a second. Anyways, we will be quizzing you on everything found in the Lord of the Rings movies with some book questions sprinkled in. And remember, no matter how well you do, Boromir would have done better.
Hannah Glass is outreach manager at the Great Bend Public Library. To see what else they are up to at the library, stop by and grab the winter newsletter or check Facebook and Instagram, email, gbcirc@gmail.com, or call 620-792-2409 with any questions about programming or services.
