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Shorewood Shuffles: Board Games Highlight
Posted September 23, 2025
Hello Shorewood community! I’m your resident board gamer Michael Smith, discussing some more board games in anticipation for our upcoming days of Shorewood Shuffles, our board game night hosted at the library on select Thursdays. Today I’m covering "Really Loud Librarians", "Chunky Monkey Business", and "Dragonwood", all of which will be available to play at our next Shorewood Shuffles event. Read More
Hello Shorewood community! I’m your resident board gamer Michael Smith, discussing some more board games in anticipation of our upcoming dates of Shorewood Shuffles, our board game nights hosted at the library on select Thursdays. Today I’m covering Zombie Kittens, Sleeping Queens, and Dr. Who: Don’t Blink, all of which will be available and ready to play at our next Shorewood Shuffles event. 
We’re celebrating National Library Week with a shortened, preview version of the upcoming Independent Lens documentary Free for All: The Public Library. The film, by Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor, tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all; a simple idea that shaped a nation. 
From Uno to Settlers of Catan, I have played my fair share of Board Games (or Tabletop Games as some like to call it), enough to call myself a board game fanatic. Each game is a unique experience with a wide variety of art and gameplay, and serves as a wonderful way to meet new people and pass the time with an engaging roll of the dice or a flip of the card. That is why I am extremely excited to have started this new program for the library: Shorewood Shuffles, our biweekly game night on Thursdays! Below, I will be discussing some of the many board games we have here at the library, and my experience playing them in preparation for our first Shorewood Shuffles night on January 30th. 
As Earth Day approaches in the spring, the Shorewood Conservation Committee will offer free screenings of several documentaries in the Shorewood Village Center. To complement the environmental themes associated with these films, Shorewood Public Library has gathered a list of related reads to go along with each film.