LIBRARY HOURS Ledding Library News M O N - T H U R S : 1 0 A M – 9 P M VOLUME 16, ISSUE 4 A P R I L 2 0 1 5 FRI & SAT: 1 0 A M - 6 P M S U N : 1 2 P M - 6 P M National Library Week Food Donations The libraries in Clackamas County would like you to join them in celebrating National Library Week (ilovelibraries.org). To celebrate this week, all of the libraries are offering a “Food for Fines” promotion April 12 - 18. Bring in a non-perishable food item (please no damaged or expired items) and the library will waive $1.00 of library fines for every item you donate. All food will go to local food banks in each area. FRIENDS OF THE L E D D I N G LIBRARY POND HOUSE USED B O O K S T O R E FRI & SAT: 1 1 A M - 4 P M

Wii Games at the Library! Speculative Fiction As of April 1, the children’s library has added 70 Wii in Milwaukie games for check out. Ranging from Mariokart to LEGO Our third presenter of the 2015 Ledding Star Wars to How to Train Your Dragon, the collection Cultural Forum on Thursday, April 2nd at includes both Wii and Wii-U titles. The games check 7pm is Tina Connolly, author of Silverblind, out for 14 days and may be renewed as long as no one the third book in the speculative fiction series has placed the title on hold. To find these new games in Ironskin. Connolly will present on her writing the catalog, simply enter “Wii” in the search box. Once at the Pond House. Light refreshments will http:// the list of results appears, check the boxes for video www.milwaukieoregon.gov be served. She is also games and Milwaukie on the left side of the screen. If /newsletter/subcription the author of the teen you do not find your favorite games listed, please let us series Seriously Wicked. know. We hope to continue expanding the game collection in the year ahead and welcome suggestions. The Ledding Cultural Forum is a celebration of culture with public http://www.facebook.com/ talks by local or LeddingLibrary regional artists, media producers, musicians, writers and other makers of culture. http://www.pinterest.com/ Each event is free and will be held at the leddinglibrary/ Ledding Library Pond House, from 7pm to 8pm, the first Thursday of each month of this year (except July and December).

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AGES 5 & UP TH TH OUTSIDE, SOUTH SIDE OF THE LIBRARY SATURDAY CRAFTS: SAT, APRIL 4 & 11 AT 2PM. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 LIBRARY2GO HELP: MON, APRIL 13TH, 20TH & 27TH AGES 5 & UP TH ND BY APPOINTMENT FROM 6PM - 8:30PM GAME NIGHT: WED, APRIL 8 & 22 AT 6:00PM - 26 27 28 29 30 CALL (503) 786-7546 IN THE YOUNG ADULT AREA TH FOREIGN FILM NIGHT – LONG LIFE, HAPPINESS WRITING GROUP: TUES, APRIL 14 AT 4:30PM. AND PROSPERITY: THURS, APRIL 16TH AT 7PM, AGES 10 & UP. POND HOUSE The Movie Maven’s Directors You Should Know - Texas born writer/director was the first feature film for selling book based on their night Richard Linklater has had quite a future Oscar winners Ben Affleck together in Vienna. They meet on year. His film Boyhood has swept and Matthew McConaughey. the French leg of his book tour and the award circuit like wildfire, Through the right of passage of their feelings are rekindled as they including being nominated for the hazing younger students, we get again spend time together before Best Picture Oscar. Exploring to know the individuals in the high his flight back to New York. what he calls "the youth rebellion school groups of stoners, jocks Before Midnight (2013): In the continuum," Linklater is and nerds. final act of the trilogy, we join considered one of the founders of (1995): The first Celine and Jesse almost two the Independent Film Movement of his love story trilogy starring decades since their first meeting. in the 1990s and has launched the (a frequent actor in They are now in a relationship and careers of many talented young Linklater’s films) and , a the parents of twin girls. During a actors. Here's an overview of his couple who meet on a European trip to , they evaluate their work: train and spend one magical night lives together and apart. together in Vienna. As in all of his Slacker (1991): Slacker was made Boyhood (2014): This brilliant film, films, the conversation is more for under $23,000, earned acclaim 12 years in the making, should prominent than the plot. This at The Sundance Film Festival in have, in my opinion, won the Best gives his characters realism not 1991, and is a forerunner of Picture Oscar. Shot for a period of found in other romances. independent film. Virtually plot- two weeks each year, its fluid (2003): Jack Black less, the film provides a brief look direction helps us watch a little “Books are the plane, and plays Dewey Finn, a down and out at the social misfits, over boy, Mason, turn into a man before the train, and the road. rock star facing a mountain of educated, and oddballs of Austin, our eyes. It duplicates the feeling of They are the destination, debt. In desperation, he takes a Texas in the scope of one day. childhood going by in a flash. Not job as a substitute teacher at an and the journey. They are The term "slacker" soon became a to be missed. uptight private school and home.” catch-all word for the disaffected Expand your horizons with a swipe introduces his class to the youth culture. of your Clackamas County library Anna Quindlen wonders of rock and roll. Dazed and Confused (1993): card and check out a new director (2004): It's been This film is a cult classic taking today! nine years since the lovers, Jesse place on the last day of school in a and Celine met on the train. Since ~Amelia Heinl small Texas town in 1976. This then, Jesse has written a best- Ledding Library of Milwaukie, 10660 SE 21st Ave., Milwaukie, OR 97222 ● 503-786-7580 ● www.milwaukieoregon.gov/library