Hi everyone! Welcome back to your book group podcast, Reading With Libraries! We are here to talk about books, to enjoy some beverages, and to have this time together. Thanks for joining us!

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It’s hard to be an expert on ALL of the great books out there! So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar area for you!

We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, and we are here to support all of our 300 member libraries. They all like books, we like to share books with our patrons, and we know you like books too. So let’s jump in here and discuss some books in today’s genre!

And our Guest Host is new to this podcast, though she has been with us on one of our other podcasts. Stephanie Todd works at the St Cloud Technical and Community College library. Welcome to the book group!

So, what is a beach read anyway? Are they only frivolous, and only for women? No and no!

A beach read is anything that is fun, anything that you are enjoying, anything that you would throw into a bag to take to the beach with you. It might be something that comes out in the summer, or just something that makes you think about summer.  It can be goofy fiction, it can be scary horror, it can be a book analyzing the mitochondria of algae. It only matters that it is something that you want to read, and something you have been looking forward to reading.