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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Library announces Best Book List of 2017
Siuslaw Public Library will
present its popular annual Best
Books list on Friday, Feb. 23,
beginning at 1 p.m. at the main
branch of the library in the
Bromley Room and again on
March 2 at 3 p.m. at the
Mapleton Branch Library.
This hour-long program is
exciting, fast-paced and offers
a brief description of about
sixty books in 60 minutes. The
annual list of best books is
once again prepared by Adult
Services Librarian Kevin
Mittge.
Each year Mittge solicits
recommendations for this year-
ly best book list from library
patrons, staff, volunteers and
national critics. And, being a
prolific reader himself, he also
adds his own favorites.
The event is free and all gen-
res are included in the light-
ning-speed book summaries.
readers. Plan to
attend the popular
program to check
out the list of the
top 2017 favorites
in both fiction and
nonfiction.
Find out which
books
were
requested most by
Siuslaw
Public
Library patrons in
2017 and which
selections topped
the critic’s list in
fiction and nonfic-
tion.
Every attendee
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is guaranteed to
Siuslaw Public Library’s Adult Services learn about a new
Librarian, Kevin Mittge, holds two and
interesting
Best Books in preparation of the Best author
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Book List of 2017 on Feb. 23 and intriguing book.
March 2.
A Best Book list
This fun, annual program is will be available to take home
a must for both avid and casual and anyone unable to attend
can pick up the library’s Best
Books List at the Library fol-
lowing the program.
When Mittge was asked
what he enjoyed most about
compiling this year’s Best
Books list, he said: “Just like
last year, learning about all the
great books and authors out
there that I haven’t read yet but
now want to! And this year I
have included suggestions for a
couple of authors readers might
want to explore.”
Everyone is sure to find a
new favorite read on his list.
Everyone is welcome to
drop in and see if his or her
favorite book is included in this
year’s list.
For more information about
the program, visit the Siuslaw
Public Library in person, call
541-997-3132,
or
visit
www.siuslawlibrary.org.
WRiTE BRAiN Books
Literacy Program at DAR
Chuck Trent, acting execu-
tive director of the Boys and
Girls Club of Western Lane
County, is the guest speaker
for the Friday, Feb. 23, meet-
ing of the Oregon Dunes
Chapter Daughters of the
American Revolution (DAR).
Trent will share information
on a new program, available
through the local Boys and
Girls Club, which is helping
boost students reading and
writing skills.
The WRiTE BRAiN Books
Literacy Program is a stan-
dards-aligned, writing and
reading comprehension pro-
gram that concludes with
members receiving a soft-copy
published self-authored story-
book.
Educational
highlights
include collaboration, project-
based learning, scientific and
critical thinking, research and
technology. Youth learn lan-
guage and reading skills in a
fun, creative way.
The community is welcome
to attend and learn more about
this literacy program in a casu-
al setting. Anyone interested
should contact Karen Childs at
541-997-7154 for the location
and time information.
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Book Review
“Clade”
By James Bradley
“Clade,” by James Bradley is a remarkable, unforgettable
story about a multi-generational family surviving in the face
of climate change and government collapse. On a beach in
Antarctica, scientist Adam Leith marks the passage of the
summer solstice, while back in Sydney, Australia, his partner
Ellie waits for the results of her latest round of IVF treat-
ment. That result, when it comes, will change both their lives
and propel them into a future neither would have predicted.
In a collapsing England, Adam will battle to survive an
apocalyptic storm. Against a backdrop of growing civil
unrest back home in Australia, Ellie will discover a strange
affinity with beekeeping. In the aftermath of a pandemic, a
young man finds solace in building virtual recreations of the
dead. And new connections will be formed from the most
unlikely beginnings, tying the first characters, Adam and
Ellie, to the later generations in the story.
New Scientist reviewed the book and called it “a beauti-
fully written meditation on climate collapse, concentrating
on three generations of an Australian family. [Author]
Bradley skillfully evokes the particularity of lived experi-
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its real triumph is in setting these in their large context: a
world wrecked by storms and floods, changes in vegetation
and the collapse of bird and bee populations.”
Anyone interested in one possible future with the results
of climate change, for good or for ill, will enjoy “Clade.”
John Quay Heritage Players
Come meet some of the early pioneers of and settlers of
Florence and the lower Siuslaw area, when the John Quay
Heritage Players visit the library on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 1
p.m.
Among the visitors will be Christina Kyle (played by Cathy
Dupont), Lily Cox Hurd (Annie Schmidt), Clara Gamble
Hering (Alyson Scott), Elizabeth Knowles (Diane Neale),
Harvey Hanson (Dorland Neale), and Dan Johnson, also
known as Indian Dan (David Dumas).
The goal of the Heritage Players is to reflect early Florence
from a diversity of viewpoints. Through personal monologues
of the early settlers and dramatizations of fact-based incidents,
the group hopes to entertain as well as educate about the early
pioneer experience. The library is pleased to host the Heritage
Players in this free program open to the general public.
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