Welcome back to the book group! We are so happy you are here.
We are big fans of YA books! And everyone owes a big thank you to J.K. Rowling and her lovely Harry Potter series for encouraging people of all ages to enjoy YA books.
This is an exciting time in people’s lives, and the books for YA readers can be filled with all kinds of drama, exploration, growth, change, and other topics filled with emotion. This genre has been so popular that many authors who have been writing adult books have added YA book into their publishing schedules.
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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!
Check out all our information on our show notes page. Our beverages, book information, and books we share are all here. Grab a beverage, browse for book ideas, and let’s talk books!
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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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Do you want to talk about programming and reaching out to your community members?
It’s pretty much the basis of all the good stuff we do in libraries!
So Thursday June 21 from 11:00 to 1:00 we are meeting at the CMLE HQ to chat about these ideas, share suggestions, and all emerge with a few ideas to try out.
(Attendees will receive a certificate for 2 hours of CE/PD credit.)
If this sounds like a great way to spend a summer lunchtime (and OF COURSE IT DOES!), send us an email at admin@cmle.org to RSVP! (We are ordering lunch, so want to be sure we get your order too!)
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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