by Quinn | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
We at the Reading Room CLE are, like everyone, deeply saddened by the current pandemic. At our Board's annual meeting in March 2020, we passed the following plan:For the duration, we will focus on helping our neighbors cultivate habits of happiness at home. Our...
by Quinn | Mar 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
In recent years, many prisons, both private and public, have restricted prisoners' access to books. We want to do something about that. The situation: Prison inmates are being denied books under a variety of pretexts. Sometimes hardbacks are said to be used to smuggle...
by Quinn | Dec 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Are you interested in contributing to our blog’s recurring feature, Reader Advisory? This is a short, five-item book list from experts on a wide variety of topics. Send us a message at [email protected] with your proposed topic, and we will send you the form to...
by Quinn | Dec 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our writing group, The Writing Room CLE, meets twice a month, at Common Grounds Coffee and at the Collinwood Branch of the Cleveland Public Library. Our group is slightly different from others, in that instead of being focused on creation or critique, we work to...
by Quinn | Dec 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
In February 2018, I started unofficially collecting donations of used books, with the dream of one day becoming a nonprofit bookstore that would fund literary and literacy programs. It was just me, driving around in my little Corolla, collecting books and parking them...
by Quinn | Nov 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Internship candidates often ask what they will learn from working with us. 2019 Summer Intern Amanda's reflection paper gives an accurate view of our daily work and culture as a startup nonprofit. We teach hard skills (content creation, used and rare book industry...
