Coos Bay Public Library
Storytime, Wednesday, January 17 in the Myrtlewood Room, 10:00am – 10:30am. Sing, read, talk, write, and play! Dive into a world of imagination at weekly Storytime at the Library events. Join us for a delightful experience filled with rhymes, songs, and captivating stories designed for young children and their cherished parent or caregiver. It’s a wonderful opportunity to spark creativity, foster language development, and create beautiful memories together! Don’t miss out on joy-filled moments at Storytime– see you there!
Coos Bay Public Library
SOC Pride Book Club – Wednesday, January 17 in the Myrtlewood Room, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Coos Bay Public Library hosts SOC Pride Book Club for an in-person meeting to discuss one book per month. Preteens, teens, and adults are welcome to join in the discussion. This month’s book is: Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing. “For fans of Alison Bechdel’s ‘Fun Home’ and Meg-John Barker’s ‘Queer’, ‘Fine’ is an essential graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender identity and expression. As Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What is gender? This obsession sparked a quest in their quiet Midwest town, where they anxiously approached both friends and strangers for interviews to turn into comics. A decade later, their project has exploded into a fantastical and informative portrait of a surprisingly vast community spread across the country. Questions such as ‘How do you identify?’ invited deep and honest accounts of adolescence, taking hormones, changing pronouns—and how these experiences can differ depending on culture, race, and religion. Amidst beautifully rendered scenes emerges Ewing’s own visceral story growing up in rural Kentucky, grappling with their identity as a teenager, and ultimately finding themself through art—and by creating something this very fine.” – finecomic.com