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Kindness Challenge: Spend Kindly

Jeremiah here — Welcome to the second empathy building challenge of our Reading for Change fall program. (Read more about this season’s community read here.) This week we will tackle Zaki’s challenge that we choose to “spend kindly.” Here’s a brief quote: Kindness can feel like a transfer: one person decides to spend—money, energy, emotional

September 16, 2021

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Beanstack Basics

The Greenfield Public Library has a new app for helping you track your reading and a read together as community. The app is called Beanstack, an all-in-one and easy to use program, that’s called the “Fitbit for reading.” We began using Beanstack over the summer of 2021 and are now continuing to offer additional challenges

September 16, 2021

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Welcome to Reading For Change

Beginning Monday, September 20th, adults, teens and children are invited to participate in the Greenfield Public Library’s Reading for Change Project. In collaboration with Greenfield Community College and Greenfield High School, the GPL will be participating in a community read of Jamil Zaki’s groundbreaking book: The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World. 

September 14, 2021September 16, 2021

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Fall Books: New Space Opera

Jeremiah here: One of my great book loves is science fiction. I love big honking novels that are so filled with new worlds and people that just getting into them takes a bit of effort — read 100ish pages — before it even becomes clear what the novel is actually trying to do. With that

September 10, 2021

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