We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, a multitype library system serving all types of libraries.

This season we are suggesting books you might enjoy for our Goodreads group: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a prompt connected to each state park, and you find a book to fulfill the challenge. You can use one of our suggestions, and you should feel free to read any book!

In this week’s discussion, we are exploring the Blue Mounds State Park. It was established in 1937.

Prickly pear cactus blooms here in June and July. Enjoy a book with cactus plants, or other blooming plants.

We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all – including a nice book – Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

• The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Volume 1), by Dusti Bowling
• Cactus Hotel, by Brenda Z. Guiberson
• The Truth About Forever, by Sarah Dessen
• Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
• Awaken (book 1), by Katie Kacvinsky

Thanks for joining us! We’ll be back next week with a look at the next park and the next book prompt!