Welcome to this week’s edition of the book group!

This week our Guest Host is Kelly Kraemer, from College of St. Ben’s and St. John’s University.

These books are the ones that touch people’s lives, and touch the fears they have. When society seems scary around us, reading dystopian fiction increases because people want to see how things can go wrong.  After the 2016 elections, sales of dystopian fiction increased dramatically. Fiction can help us put things into perspective, and hopefully there is a happy ending that we can all aspire to!

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It’s summer time! So you probably miss school, or thinking about school This week we talk about school-based fiction, and all the fun books that take place in schools. Whether you loved school, or barely survived your last semester, there will be something you can relate to and enjoy in the books we share!

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Thanks to our Guest Host this week: Lydia, from Great River Public Library system!

This week we spend time focusing directly on looking at people, rather than just books. It is always interesting to read a well-done biography, because learning about people’s lives can give us so many ideas for ourselves. They can be inspiring; they can be horrifying. They can help us to improve ourselves because we are excited by what the subject did; they can encourage us to improve our own lives by seeing the terrible things some subjects have created or survived. There is always something to take from a biography, so they are going to be interesting to read!

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Travel is good for us. We see new places, we meet new people, we try new foods ? and in all of it we probably realize how connected we are to everything else. Travel lets you explore and broaden your mind. It lets you fill your brain with good (and bad) memories.

This week we explore some new places, read about adventures, and enjoy dreaming about vacations we might take!

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