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SIUSLAW NEWS | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2020 | 9A Unique ways to celebrate New Year’s Eve during the pandemic New Year’s Eve is a highly an- ticipated day on many people’s calendars. Social schedules tend to be busy during the holiday season, and that typically culminates on Dec. 31, when people across the globe gather to say goodbye to one year and welcome in a new one. Much of the world is no doubt ready to put 2020 in its rearview mirror, but New Year’s Eve cele- brations will almost certainly have to be scaled back this year. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways people gather socially, so traditional New Year’s Eve parties likely won’t be in the cards as the world turns the calendar from 2020 to 2021. Raucous parties might not be on the docket this Dec. 31, but that does not mean people cannot still celebrate the end of what’s proven will be at midnight. A champagne erings with friends are prohib- to be a very challenging year. toast around a backyard firepit can ited this year, families can plan getaways. New Year’s Eve is on a Don’t wait until midnight Thursday this year, and many Many people love to be offices will be closed on the around friends and family following Friday in obser- as the clock strikes mid- vance of the New Year’s night on New Year’s Eve. Day holiday. That makes it But the Centers for Disease an ideal weekend to get out Control and Prevention of town. Many vacation warns that the COVID-19 rental services like VRBO virus spreads more easi- and Airbnb have intro- ly indoors than outdoors. duced guidelines to address So gathering around the tele- health and safety concerns vision to watch the ball drop in prospective travelers may have. Times Square as you count down serve as a stand-in for midnight Before booking a getaway, contact to the new year may put cele- toasts. hosts to determine what they’re brants’ health in jeopardy. doing to make their rentals safe If you want to gather with loved Hit the road for renters. ones, do so earlier in the day and Travel restrictions may dictate gather outdoors when the weather where people can safely celebrate Celebrate over and over again figures to be much warmer than it New Year’s Eve, but if large gath- One unique way to see 2020 Library Tidings Book Review “The Woman in the Mirror” by Rebecca James For more than two centu- ries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overlook- ing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea be- yond. Enshrouded by fog and enveloped by howling winds, the imposing edifice casts a darkness over the town. In 1947, Londoner Al- ice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after the twin chil- dren, Constance and Ed- mund, for their widower father, Captain Jonathan de Grey. Falling under the de Greys’ spell, Alice believes the family will heal her own past sorrows. But then the twins’ ad- oration becomes deceitful and taunting. Their father, ever distant, turns spiteful and cruel. The manor itself seems to lash out. Alice finds her surround- ings subtly altered, her air slightly chilled. Something malicious resents her pres- ence, something clouding her senses and threatening her very sanity. In present-day New York, art gallery curator Rachel Wright has learned she is a descendant of the de Greys and heir to Winterbourne. Adopted as an infant, she never knew her birth parents or her lineage. At long last, Rachel will find answers to questions about her identity that have haunted her entire life. But what she finds in Cornwall is a devastating, tragic legacy that has afflicted generations of de Greys. A legacy born from greed and deceit, twist- ed by madness, and suffused with unrequited love and unequivocal rage. There is only one true mis- to the door and usher in 2021 is to celebrate throughout the day and night as various areas of the world officially close the book on 2020. The Pacific island nations of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati are the first countries to ring in the new year, and they will do so at what will be 5 a.m. on Dec. 31 in New York. Many countries across the globe ring in the New Year before residents of North America, so North Americans can make a day of sending 2020 into the history books and celebrate each time a new country reaches 2021. New Year’s celebrations figure to be different as the world ushers in 2021. But there are many unique ways to celebrate that can make New Year’s Eve just as fun as it’s always been. News about the Siuslaw Public Library by Kevin Mittge tress of Winterbourne. She will not tolerate any woman who dares to cross its thresh- old and call it home. Those who do will find only a re- flection of their own wicked sins and an inherited ven- geance. New Year’s Holiday Hours at the Library The library will close at noon on Thursday, Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve, and will be closed on Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, New Year’s Day. Phone orders for curbside pickup will only be available from 10 a.m. to noon on New Year’s Eve and curbside pickup and returns will only be avail- able for one hour, 11 a.m. to noon. each year as to their favorite We would like to wish all books of the year. of our patrons a better and a If you would like to pro- wonderful 2021! vide input as to your favorite books of 2020, please click Best Books Questionnaire on the link on the library’s Each year librarian Kev- website at www.siuslawli- in Mittge presents the “Best brary.info. The link is the Books” of the previous year poster entitled “Best Books in a fast-moving “60 books 2020 Survey” on the scroll- in 60 minutes” program ing screen in the middle of around the end of February. the page. Even though we won’t be We don’t share your name hosting an in-person pro- or email address with any- gram this year, there will be one else. Only a selection of a virtual presentation online, books will be presented in with follow-up videos post- the program — we have to ed to the library’s YouTube make some choices to keep channel (you can still view the program limited to an last year’s videos). hour! — but all books rec- The library asks for in- ommended will be included put from library patrons in the booklist provided. 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