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 Gooseberry Falls, one of the most popular parks in the state. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_par…

In addition to the beautiful waterfalls, this park has a 300 foot long “Castle in the Park” stone retaining wall, with assorted statuary around it. Celebrate the majestic spirit of this park by reading a book set in a castle or about a castle.

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 Man in the High Castle, by Phillip K. Dick
• The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, by Stephen King
• I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
• The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
• Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Castle Book 1), by Diana Wynne Jones

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