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We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it. In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy! Fort Ridgely State Park has a variety of historic sites to visit while you are here - and a horse camp! https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_par... Enjoy a walking tour while you visit the park, or enjoy some armchair travels with a book that has a walking tour in the story.

We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it. In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy! The Minneopa State Park was established in 1905. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_par... There are bison in this park! You can drive around the Bison Drive to admire them. For this prompt, find a book with bison OR other animal conservation project.

We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it. In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy! Interstate State Park was founded in 1895, and is a park that goes across the Wisconsin border with both states. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_par... You can read a book with cheese, to celebrate our neighbors to the East. Or read a book with a dual nature as a plot point, to celebrate the dual states of this park.

We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it. In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy! The first state park in Minnesota is Itasca State Park. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_par... We are celebrating that distinction with a prompt to read the first book in a series. You can also use any other book with a plot involving "first" status.

Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week! And this week our Guest Host is admiring the book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, by Michael Pollan. "A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both suffering and joy, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives." Subscribe to our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week! And this week our Guest Host is admiring the book Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, by Mariko Tamaki. "Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: break up with her. But Laura Dean keeps coming back, and as their relationship spirals further out of her control, Freddy has to wonder if it's really Laura Dean that's the problem. Maybe it's Freddy, who is rapidly losing her friends, including Doodle, who needs her now more than ever. " Subscribe to our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week! And this week our Guest Host is admiring the book Sex in the Museum: My Unlikely Career at New York's Most Provocative Museum, by Sarah Forbes. "In SEX IN THE MUSEUM, Sarah invites readers to travel from suburban garages where men and women build sex machines, to factories that make sex toys, to labyrinthine archives of erotica collectors. Escorting us in to the hidden world of sex, illuminating the never-talked-about communities and eccentricities of our sexual subcultures, and telling her own personal story of a decade at The Museum of Sex, Sarah asks readers to grapple with the same questions she did: when it comes to sex, what is good, bad, deviant, normal? Do such terms even apply? If everyone has sexual secrets, is it possible to really know another person and be known by them? And importantly, in our hyper-sexualized world, is it still possible to fall in love?" Subscribe to our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week! And this week our Guest Host is admiring the book All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything, by Sasha Chapin. "Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart, Marcel Duchamp--the game has consumed his life and his mind. First captivated by it as a member of his high school chess club, his passion was rekindled during an accidental encounter with chess hustlers on the streets of Kathmandu. In its aftermath, he forgot how to care about anything else. He played at all hours, for weeks at a time. Like a spurned lover, he tried to move on, but he found the game more seductive the more he resisted it." Subscribe to our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Welcome, everyone, to our final episode of Season Four of Reading With Libraries! Check out our full show notes page here. We have books, resources, and beverages waiting there for you. It has been so great to read with you for these fifteen weeks – we just can't bear for our book fun to end. So while we are on hiatus you will get a Book Bite each week. This is a quickie five-minute sharing of a book by one of our Guests. We have been producing these for a while now, so you can browse our entire archive on our website. This week we are discussing a favorite topic: Minnesota books! We will look at book set in Minnesota, and books by Minnesota authors. This is always our season finale topic, because we know there are 10,000 lakes here and at least as many good stories! Who is joining us today? We are welcoming a new Guest Host to be our Minnesota book expert: Wendy Sykes, from the Great River Public Library system! This is our last episode of the season, but never fear: Tuesday we will start dropping quickie book podcast into this spot on a weekly basis!

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We're so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our full show notes page here! This week we're discussing narrative nonfiction. We are so glad to welcome back Leah from State Library Services! Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.