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Welcome to Healthy Weight Week, International Printing Week, National
Handwriting Analysis Week, and Reminiscence Week. Today is Rid the World of Fad Diets and
Gimmicks Day, and tomorrow is International Life Day, a celebration of life without a
political agenda.
Thursday is Get To Know Your Customer Day, as well as National Hugging Day. Since hugging is something everyone can do and since it is a healthful form of touching, spend the day hugging anyone who will accept a hug - especially your family and friends.
Friday is Answer Your Cat's Question Day, and Saturday is National Pie Day. Finally, Monday is the anniversary of the First Televised Presidential News Conference, held by John F. Kennedy in 1961, and A Room of One's Own Day!
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. snow storytimes feature stories and a variety of crafts, including snowflakes and snowmen. At Saturday morning's 10:00 sheep storytime, participants will make a paper bag puppet and sheep mask.
BOOK TALK
Librarian Barbara Harris provides this week's book information. If you'd like to read more of the kind of books you've enjoyed as a faithful member of Oprah's Book Club, "the Reading List, contemporary Fiction" can help. It's a guide to the works of 110 living novelists and short story writers and includes a brief description of each of the author's books, an indication of which are considered the best, biographical information, and a list of other authors you might want to read next.
Admirers of Jane Hamilton's skill in "The Book of Ruth" will want to go on to books by Pat Barker, Pat Conroy, Jim Harrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Jane Smiley, Mona Simpson, or Melanie Rae Thon. Mona Simpson's books are also recommended for readers who enjoy Kay Gibbons' novels, and other suggestions for Gibbons fans are Dorothy Allison, Anita Brookner, Pat Conroy, and Reynolds Price, as well as Ursula Hegi, another "Oprah" author.
Edwige Danticat was a new author to many Oprah viewers. "The Reading List" encourages readers who want to expand both their literary and multicultural horizons to try Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Cristina Garcia, Jamaica Kincaid, or Amy Tan. Fans of Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison will also enjoy Kincaid's books and will want to read Isabel Allende, Nadine Gordimer, Charles Johnson, Najuib Mahfouz, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Since this is Healthy Weight Week, you might enjoy this poem, author unknown, called "The Month After Christmas."
"'Twas the month after Christmas, and all through the house nothing would fit me, not even a blouse. The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste at the holiday parties had gone to my waist. When I got on the scales there arose such a number! When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber), I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared; the gravies and sauces and beef nicely rare, the wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese, and the way I'd never said, 'No thank you, please.'
As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt and prepared once again to do battle with dirt - I said to myself, as I only can, 'You can't spend a winter disguised as a man!' So - away with the last of the sour cream dip, get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip. Every last bit of food that I like must be banished 'till all the additional ounces have vanished. I won't have a cookie - not even a lick. I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick. I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie, I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.
I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore - but isn't that what January is for? Unable to giggle, no longer a riot. Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!"
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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