## POLL: Pick the date book club chats with Esperanza Hope Snyder, author of Orange Wine

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What dates work for an author chat? Part of Bien Leidos book club is our live author chats after the book club month. I'm thrilled to announce that the author of Orange Wine, Esperanza Hope Snyder, will be chatting live with our book club in early February. Below are the dates/times Esperanza is available to chat with us. Let me know which dates work best for your schedule by indicating all your availability in early February to chat with her. If you can't make any of these dates, don't despair because I will record the chat and post it privately for you to view at a later date.

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- **Tuesday, February 3rd 8:00PM EST**
- **Wednesday, February 4th 8:00 PM EST**
- **Thursday, February 5th 8:00 PM EST**

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Happy Saturday, mis internet amigxs! We've got a few events coming up on Zoom that I wanted to get on your radar, including our very highly anticipated chat with Orange Wine author, Esperanza Hope Snyder! In addition, I'm highlighting some upcoming Discord events.

****STICKER NIGHT****  
For anyone who is on Discord and part of the sticker discourse in #Journaling or wants to know where to purchase amazing and unique vinyl stickers, we'll be doing a sticker show-and-tell tomorrow night, Sunday, February 1st at 8:00PM EST on Zoom! This is an informal evening where we'll be sharing either our newest stickers (from a recent haul) or our favorite stickers. Each volunteer speaker will get UP TO 5 minutes to share their stickers. Bring your favorite/most recent sticker purchases and the store name where you purchased them for the class! This promises to be a fun and lowkey evening. If you'd like to join, then REGISTER HERE.

****ESPERANZA HOPE SNYDER AUTHOR EVENT****  
I don't think book club has had a bigger discussion than for January's book club pick, Orange Wine, so I'm so excited author Esperanza Hope Snyder is joining us to discuss the book with us on February 10th at 8:00 PM EST _EXCLUSIVELY_ for Bindery members! Mareas tastemaker, Marines Alvarez, who picked the book for her imprint will also hopefully be joining us as well. I plan to speak with Esperanza for about 40-45 minutes and then turn to attendees for Q&A. You can REGISTER HERE for the chat. This event will be recorded and posted privately for those who can't make it.

Both events are exclusively for Bindery members, so please do not share the Zoom links provided. I encourage you to share this post with friends you think might be interested and get them to join Bindery to attend.

In addition, we have a couple of Discord events coming up:

****SPOILERY ORANGE WINE DISCORD BOOK CLUB CHAT****  
On February 4th, we'll be discussing Orange Wine all day long in the Orange Wine Discord channel. After the end of the month reading and discussing our book club book spoiler-free, we open up for a one day long rolling spoilery chat of the book free from the grey boxes before closing out the book club discussion channel. Bring all your thoughts, feelings and questions and let's discuss!

****WEEKLY DISCORD READING/PRODUCTIVITY SPRINTS****  
Every Monday night at 8 PM EST, we run ⁠reading/productivity sprints. If you're not familiar with sprints, it's where we meet, chat for 5-10 minutes, then focus on an activity (it can be reading, but also work, cleaning, whatever you're trying to get done) for about 25-30 minutes (length of time is set by person running sprints), and then we chat again for another 10 minutes or so before beginning another sprint. We have members across many time zones, so don't feel bad if you're "late" and usually there are shifts of sprints that go on for several hours after start time. This is a casual and fun way to make new bookish friends while knocking things off your to-do list.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all at these events. Thank you so much for making the Bien Leidos community such a bright light in this world.

xoxo,  
Carmen

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**Upcoming Bien Leidos Events**  
including registration for Esperanza Hope Snyder author chat

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