All members and friends are invited to join us at the Wine Sellers, Saturday January 17 from 1 to 3 p.m., for an informal winter social. We will be celebrating the US Bicentennial year with a “blind date” as everyone attending will get a wrapped history, biography, or vintage book. Board members will provide appetizers. Drinks will be available for purchase. Feel free to bring a friend who might be interested in joining us.

Stock up on some good winter escape reading at our annual winter book specialty book sale, Saturday, February 7, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Library Annex, at 109 E. Jefferson St. This sale features fiction and mystery/action adventure books plus media and all of the oversized books (cook books, art, history/biography, non fiction, classics, etc.) Proceeds are invested in the Macomb Public Library.

Friends of Macomb Public Library made a $500.00 check donation this fall to MacArthur Early Childhood Center’s Reading Program Initiative.  Each student receives a book a month during the school year.  FOMPL is proud to support this important program for our young people.

Kate Joswick, Friends of the Library volunteer, has been submitting local book reviews to our regional newspapers since 2007.  She has had just under 1,000 reviews published and is eager to break the 1,000 mark!  The current, weekly column, “What Are You Reading,” appears in the Tuesday issues of the Community News Brief.  It is very popular and fulfills one of our organizational goals…to promote reading.  Approximately 175 adults and children have shared their opinions about books they have read.

We encourage you to submit your brief review of a book you have read to joswickkate@gmail.com.    Most reviews are five or six sentences long, but longer reviews are accepted.  Include the author, title, your name, and occupation when you submit.   This opens a wide world of potential good reads for so many readers.

The Page Tuner Book Club will meet the 2nd Wednesday of every month from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Macomb Public Library Meeting Room. The public is invited to attend. There will be some duplicate copies of the book selected each month in the library. The following books have been selected for the 2025 year.

Jan. 8: The Thursday Murder Cub by Richard Osman (led by TBD)

Feb. 12: An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin (led by Morris Vos)

March 12: Small Great things by Jodi Picoult (Led by Mary Elizabeth Vos)

April 9: Giants in the Earth by O. E. Rolvaag (Led by David Leath)

May 14: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (led by Sandy Shearer)

June 11: All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (led by TBD)

July 9: The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon (led by TBD)

Aug. 13: Table for Two by Armor Towles. by Chris Whitaker (Led by TBD)

Sept. 10: Frozen River by Ariel lawhon (led by Becky Parker)

Oct. 8: The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson (led by TBD)

Nov. 12: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Led by Cindy Amundsen)

Dec. 11: Page Turners Book Club will meet at 4:30 at the Wine Sellers to select next year’s books. New potential members are invited.

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