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This month’s @masscenterforbook Reading Challenge is to read a book set in your hometown or home state. We've compiled a list of books set in Springfield and in Massachusetts, so swipe through to take a look!
If you’re not seeing what you’re looking for, be sure to ask a librarian for another recommendation. For more information and to fill out your monthly reading form, head to massbook.org/readingchallenge
What are you going to read for this month’s challenge??
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January’s @masscenterforbook Reading Challenge is to read a book with less than 100 pages. Swipe to take a look at our recommendations or ask a librarian for more!
Let us know what you’re reading for this month’s challenge! 📚
Fill out the monthly reading form at massbook.org/readingchallenge
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Peter Straub, whose literary novels of terror, mystery and the supernatural placed him in the top ranks of the horror-fiction boom of the 1970s and '80s, alongside writers like Ira Levin, Anne Rice and his close friend and collaborator Stephen King, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 79. (NYT, Sept 7 Obituary)
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"If nations anointed historians laureate," commented Washington Post critic Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., "David McCullough would surely be ours." The author of numerous popular biographies and histories, McCullough tackled subjects from the construction of the Panama Canal to the biographies of presidents of the United States to 1776, the difficult year of birth of the American republic, producing books praised for being well researched, and also highly readable historical accounts. ("David McCullough." Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Gale In Context: Biography)
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Library News
‘Anthony’s Book Club’ to support literacy in Springfield (WWLP)
Join Thunderbirds forward Anthony Angello for ‘Anthony’s Book Club’, created in partnership with the Springfield City Library and the T-Birds Foundation.
Springfield Library offers online series for adult job seekers (WWLP)
This series, running from January to June, is to help support older adults that are looking for a new job or a new career direction. Anyone that is age 50 or older can do these free biweekly skill-building and networking group meetings on Zoom.
Springfield City Library collecting mittens, hats and scarves (Masslive.com)
New or handmade items are preferred. Items of all sizes are needed; more adult-sized items are needed at most locations. The Springfield Library system has been collecting since Dec. 1 and will continue through Dec 31.