Tale Spinners Storytime meets at 10:30 a.m. this coming Monday for stories, songs and more. This week’s program will be hosted by Head Start and is for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. We are excited to see you and your little one for this fun and educational half hour of stories.
Join us at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, for Alger Reads Book Club. This month we will be discussing Laura Sims’ psychological thriller, “How Can I Help You?” In this book, the lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in a razor-sharp exploration of human nature. Visit the library for the list of upcoming reads, and ask about placing a hold so you can join us for our next session. Book club always meets at 6 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of every month.
Get your 2025 Reading Challenge calendar at the Munising Library, and plan to make the new year your best year yet for reading. These attractive calendars encourage readers to read outside the box and try new things. See if you can complete all the challenges. Those who finish the calendar will earn a special prize from the library.
New book
This week’s new book is “Funny Story” by Emily Henry. Here’s the synopsis provided by the publisher: Daphne has always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat) and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it … right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend, Petra.
Which is how Daphne begins her new story: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills) and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.
Scruffy and chaotic — with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heartbreak love ballads — Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned-up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her, they have a running bet she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?
But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s ex, right?
