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📚 Silent Reading Party + Book Chat
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📚 Silent Reading Party + Book Chat

Hosted by Vancouver literature and film

Sunday 11 October 2026, 11:00

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Vancouver Central Library · Directions

Sunday 11 October 2026, 11:00Venue time (Vancouver)
Vancouver Central LibraryDirections
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📚🤫 Silent Reading Party - bring whatever book is currently judging you
Bring-your-own-book. Mostly silent. Last stretch = optional book chat.
Short summary
Your phone has had enough of your attention.
For two hours, we’re doing the opposite of the internet: sitting in a room with other people and actually reading.
No assigned book.
No performance.
No one asking you to summarize your thoughts every five minutes.
Bring the novel, essay, poetry collection, biography, sci-fi monster, or half-finished “I swear I’m going to finish this” book that’s been following you around. We’ll read quietly together, then leave a little room at the end for people who want to say what they’re reading and whether it’s worth stealing.
This is social, but not loud.
Structured, but not school.
A room full of people quietly getting their brains back.
How the morning will feel
We’ll settle in right after the library opens, say quick hellos, then read!
Towards the end, we’ll do a short book-share: a few words on what you’re reading, and whether you’d recommend it.

Bring

any book / ebook / printed article

water or tea if you like
a notebook if you’re the type who underlines and mutters quietly to yourself

When and where
📅 Sunday, October 11, 2026
🕦 11 AM - 1 PM
📍 Central library,
Level 6 Rm 690
Cap 8 + waitlist
Quiet room, real reading. Not a crowd sport.
Small note
Audiobooks are fine if you use headphones and don’t accidentally become the soundtrack.

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