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May 2024 Spotlight: Readers By the River

Our May 2024 Spotlight is celebrating 15+ years together!

Readers By The River started as a group of Friends of the Library in 2001.  We currently have 11 members, two of which are Charter members.  We meet monthly in our Municipal Building with a view of the Oswego River on most days.
Our members range in age from women in their 60’s to one member who is 91.
While most members are native Fultonians we have transplants from NYC and various other places.

We try to include a variety of genres in our monthly selections.  

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April 2024 Spotlight: Girls Reading in Norfolk

Our April 2024 Spotlight is celebrating 15+ years together!

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries” -Anne Herbert

Girls Reading in Norfolk (GRINs) have been together for 15-plus years. We gather at our houses by turn each month and enjoy food and drink when we meet. We use our Thanksgiving meeting to share suggested titles for the following year and set it up for book/leader/host for each month. We have been to movies together for our books,

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March 2024 Spotlight: City of Brea Book Club

Our March 2024 Spotlight is celebrating eight years together!

I started the book club here at the City of Brea when I began working here in 2016 with a handful of fellow readers as a way to make friends and of course read.  We have grown from a group of 3-4 to a fun, loud, boisterous group of 16.  We typically meet in the employee break room during lunch once a month.  We have tried a few different ways of choosing our next book and have found that genres work best for us. 

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January 2024 Spotlight: Book Club Girls Sparta

Our January 2024 Spotlight is celebrating five years together!

Book Club Girls Sparta from Sparta, NJ, celebrated a milestone anniversary in November 2023: five years together as a book club! We held our annual celebration out at a local restaurant and continued our tradition of a raffle and gift exchange. All year long we meet and discuss one or two books. During the first three months of the year, we meet on Zoom and often have an author join us.  The rest of the year, one person leads the monthly discussion of their choice of book,

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December 2023 Spotlight: The Forestry Book Club

Our December 2023 Spotlight loves to read and discuss environmental books!

The Forestry Book Club is made up of current and former staff from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Forestry Division. We’ve been meeting virtually for the past four years after discovering that many of us love reading and talking about what we’ve read! Membership in our group is extremely flexible and changes for each meeting, with two staff members serving as organizers and facilitators. We include a meeting announcement in our internal newsletter,

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