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Amazing things happen when a community reads together. Sharing the experience of reading (or listening) to a book simultaneously helps develop a common language and enables conversations about the content of the work as well as life in general. The more we read, the more empathy we have for people in situations much different than our own. St. Joseph is a community that reads, and invites you to join us as WE READ a book together.
For 2025, we have selected the book The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, for our Community Reads Program. A kick-off event is planned for the week of September 1, with culminating activities during the week of October 7-11. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at The Story Collective, as well as to check out from both Rolling Hills Library and St. Joseph Public Library. With sponsorship, we hope to give away 300 free copies of the book to people in the community.
BOOK SUMMARY: Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. (from Amazon)
We need sponsors!! Help support reading and literacy in our community by sponsoring the We Read program. Your logo will appear on this page and other program materials.
CALL FOR SUGGESTIONS! Do you have a title you would like to suggest for our next Community Read? Send an email to stjosephreads@gmail.com with your name, contact info, and the name of the book, and the committee will add it to the list to review.
Community Reads History - A list of the titles selected in previous years.
2024 -- A Deceptive Homecoming by Anna Loan-Wilsey
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