EVERETT — When Lyndsay Bryson moved from Spokane to Everett in 2022, she wondered how to go about making new friends. Her job as a dog trainer wasn’t yielding any human friendships.

That winter, she went to West Seattle’s Silent Book Club: a gathering of people reading different books, to themselves, in the same space. The West Seattle chapter is so popular that it runs about a dozen simultaneous events to accommodate the hundreds of readers it attracts.

“It was fun, but it was also just like, ‘I’m feeling a little out of my depth here.’ So I didn’t go back,” she said.

Instead, in March 2023, she created the Everett chapter of the Silent Book Club, joining 1,500 volunteer-run chapters in over 50 countries.

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