Happy New Year everyone! I hope you are all snuggled up with a pile of good books to last you the winter season.
The Longview library has a wonderful speaker series lined up for you in the month of February called Community and Land.
The Series is done by video-conferences from several southwestern libraries by naturalists in their specific fields.
The first, on Feb. 10 at 7 p.m., is Cougars in the Cypress Hills.
Join us for a walk through cougar biology, conflict and adaptive park management.
The second, on Feb. 24 at 7 p.m., is Alberta: Land of Dinosaurs and Other Paleontological Wonders. You will learn why our province can be legitimately called The Land of the Dinosaurs.
We will have two more in March.
The first, Burgess Shale Tales and Trilobites, will be on March 3 at 7 p.m.
John Hancock will share his knowledge of the Burgess Shale, a UNESCO, World Heritage Site.
This presentation shares the story of the rich fossil beds left behind from the soft-bodied animals who lived 530 million years ago.
Then on Tuesday, March 17 at 7 p.m. the video conference will be A Passion for Falcons, a pig Barn and a $10 fine.
John Hancock will share with you his work with birds of prey for over 40 years and his journey as a conservationist.
A good read is All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews.
It is the story of the bonds of sisterhood and the struggle of depression and suicide that one sister is dealing with.
The scenes flicker from past to present and back again about the one sister, who is a world-renowned pianist and the other, a struggling writer.
Though the novel sounds dark, it is touched with humour and compassion.
Another great read is Leaving To-morrow by David Bergen, a Giller Prize winning author.
It is a coming of age story about growing up and falling in love and full of hope.
The story takes place in the foothills of the Rockies south of Calgary and in Paris, France.
The book is a contemplative and questioning one, and takes its place beside Who Has Seen the Wind and A Complicated Kindness and has won the Margaret Laurence Award For Fiction.
Happy Reading.
