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Join Us! We’re Reading Together IRL and Online!

Winter is coming, and we’re ready! We’ve got a big stack of library books, and we’re looking forward to digging into them, talking about them, and sharing them.

We want you to be ready to share some reading with us too!

Join us online on Goodreads for our 2020 reading challenge. We have a bunch of prompts set up, to ensure you will find all kinds of books you love, books new to you, books from all sorts of people in all sorts of places. You can read books, and have a wonderful time.

And we wanted to make it a little extra fun, so we have added an overlay of friendship and advocacy for the kitten foster organization: Kitten Academy! If this isn’t your thing – no need to read a single kitten book all year. But if you want to admire them, you can watch the kittens bounding around their rooms 24/7 (or sleeping; baby kittens do a LOT of sleeping, when not bounding!) on YouTube. Check out their website if you want to donate $1/mo to join their very active Discord community, or if you want to apply to their animal shelter, DAWS, to adopt a kitten or momcat.

AND!

We want to see you in real life too!

We’ve set up a Meetup group, to make it easy to coordinate activities. We will announce events here, of course; but you might want to join the Meetup to be sure you are fully up to date on things we will be trying the next few months. Want to to try something? Let us know; let’s see if we can organize others to go too!

  • Crafters: Gather for working, sharing, chatting! Join us for this session where you can bring your crafting work, get some projects underway (or done!), and chat with fellow crafters! Have a couple of uninterrupted hours to work on your crafting projects. Tuesday, December 3, 2019 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, at Great River Regional Library.1300 W St Germain St · St Cloud, MN
  • Monthly Book Discussion and Dinner: Join us this month at the Mexican Village Downtown! Bring a book (or five), or just bring yourself. We like to read books in all formats: paper, audio, e-books; any of them are fine to discuss. This is a casual environment, so feel free to drop in as your schedule permits. Wednesday, December 11, 2019 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
  • Book Group Discussion! Join us for chatting about books – any books that you are enjoying! Bring a book, or just bring yourself. We’ll enjoy dinner, sharing books, and getting to know each other! Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Join the Meetup group (you won’t get spammed!), and RSVP to let us know you are joining us! (You can email us at admin @ cmle.org – no spaces – and RSVP too; we’d just like to know to expect you.)

Join us! Let’s have a cozy, happy, sociable winter – filled with books and other nice things!