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 @PaulCzege @ElleGray thank you, this is very helpful! I found out that it's in a secondhand bookshop (very good) but unfortunately it's only for 1h as a special event and the last one was held in June :/ @paulczege I'm quite uncomfortable with the idea that I could not name a local event Silent Book Club without this org's approval, because they registered the name. And they did it for what? Selling merch. Yikes. @LucillaPiccari @ElleGray   @ElleGray There's a long running one of these in Seattle. Food/drinks/relaxing music in a nice setting and you get to see what everyone else is reading these days.  @ElleGray I've seen these in a few places, they're amazing! Pretty sure our local coffee shop hosts them as well.  @ElleGray I love that! It got me thinking about silent relationships with strangers. In my first college I had 1 class that was just down the hall from the class before it, so I would usually get there a few minutes early. There was always a girl there studying. I just assumed she was in the earlier class, and just stayed behind 'til the next class because it was quiet and convenient. When I came in the room I would say hi and sit down, and she would say hi and go back to reading,.   @ElleGray I forked an open source game project that was in the process of shutting down becaise the original author had no interest/time to work on it any more. Just something to fiddle with in my spare time. Fast forward 10 years and there's a user base somewhere between 10 and 100 thousand, and ~100 people actively working on it. Sometimes you do a thing and it's just a thing, and sometimes it sparks fire and turns into something completely different.  @kevingranade @ElleGray Our local #RepairCafรฉ started a bit like this. I had a thought, and everyone that I mentioned it to leapt at it! We've been going nearly 2 years... @ElleGray i tried to start something like this with a group of friends once but a couple of them were WAY too chatty lol  @paulczege Ah, so there is! Would be nice if there was a COVID cautious version. @buffyleigh @paulczege Oh nice! Will keep an eye on this one come summer then. Thanks for the link! ๐ @ElleGray Iโve always considered myself an extrovert but as Iโve gotten older have become more introverted. This sounds awesome. I would love to go to a โsilentโ hiking or biking meetup. Kind of get a little human contact/socialization with no pressure or expectation of carrying on a conversation the whole time. @ElleGray Beautiful!! Magnets are beautiful. Humans finding a magnet are beautiful! Wonderful accident!   @ElleGray Why can't I ever unintentionally (or even intentionally!) start anything like this? @ElleGray @inthehands well yes, of course I've paid the ADHD tax on already bought groceries before :bear_shrug:  @ElleGray Once I was taking an Amtrak trip from Denver, Colorado to Washington, DC. At every stop during the day that was long enough for an outside break, I would get off and do a little leg stretching, half squats, and lunge walking routine. By the end of the trip, sometimes there were as many as 10 of us doing it together.  @ElleGray this is really nice how all the people got that feeling of the world being a good place by reading this. It's just unfortunate that it also highlights either a unicorn rare event that usually won't manifest in your life (or was even simply made up, that little humble brag element is suspicious). The truth is (and people who have clubs know this) that you really have to put a lot of effort into creating such a thing, which includes sitting there alone, maybe even a lot. @ElleGray This reminds me to a scene in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" from Milan Kundera. @ElleGray this *kind of* happened to me. Young days of the web, pub drinks and 'Matt, make a website about mountain bikes'. No ambition at all but people kept getting in touch. 20 years later and all my riding group met online via the website. For years my wife called them my virtual friends...   @ElleGray @czottmann You should consider editing the post, and tagging it with something like... ๐ค @ElleGray ahaha half of them are autistic I believe, we need more groups like this ! @ElleGray The first rule of silent book club is: please do not talk during silent book club! @ElleGray @ElleGray @ElleGray Thank you. You brought back fond memories of when I used to find time to read books that brought lightness and enchantment to my soul. It has never been so necessary to reacquire this habit.  @ElleGray People do that but at the library.
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@ElleGray Hey @genecowan: This is SO your type of gathering! โฌ๏ธ