#summer reading challenge

[alice-makes-things]

Highlight of my week last week was the kid doing the Summer Reading Challenge who had read a book about venomous snakes, and proceeded to tell me (with utmost glee) all the ways in which these snakes could kill me:

“This one could crush you with its body and then swallow you whole”

“This one has enough venom in one bite to kill a thousand human beings. You would die instantly”

“This one has a tiny bit of venom that you wouldn’t feel but five hours later you couldn’t breathe and your lungs would fill with fluid and you’d drown”

Absolute perfection, 10/10 experience.

[queerliblib]

it’s officially summer, which means it is OFFICIALLY reading challenge season! presenting to you: Queer Liberation Library’s Mega Queer Summer Reading Bingo (because really, who doesn’t love bingo?)

screencap the bingo board (or head to our website to download it) and tag us with your progress all through summer! ☀️📚🌈

(hint hint: the majority of the squares correspond to lists we’ve curated in Libby, so look around and see what you can find. it’s like a gay book scavenger hunt!)

want to log your reading while filling out your bingo board? we have a storygraph challenge for that! 😎 

[bellasbookclub]

Reccer Spotlight: Zahnie!

Even Though I Knew the End

Convenience Store Woman

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Dial A for Aunties

Zahnie's got some romantic, thought-provoking, and fun contemporary recs for us. Full text available in their tab of the Bella’s Book Club Summer Reading ‘24 Reclist!

more info on BBC Summer Reading 2024

more Reccer Spotlights

[evenaturtleduck]

I can't find the original post (of course) but anyway, here's an update on the summer reading challenge I borrowed from Youngest Child!

I have now completed

A book with a green cover: The Lights of Ystrac's Wood by Alexandra Rowland

A book with a color in the title: The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

A book that just looks like it will be fun to read: Can't Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

They were all a lot of fun btw and you should probably check them out, especially Ystrac's Wood (absolutely gorgeous) and Black God's Drums (extremely cool alternate history). Treason without Tea was delightful if you were one of those people who had high hopes for Legends and Lattes but wished it had been more substantial as far as characters and worldbuilding went.

A bunch more books that I requested from the library over the winter have been released and are now showing up on the holds shelf for me, and most of those fall under the "fun to read" or "by an author you love" category, so I'm probably going to be frolicking my way through those for awhile (because this is supposed to be fun and horizon-broadening, not homework) but I did find a new-to-me poet I want to try!

[sannehale]

Book 3 📖 The Fall of the House of Usher

“I learned that the glimpse I had obtained of her person would thus probably be the last I should obtain - that the lady, at least while living, would be seen by me no more.”

[tomewardbound]

Changing Hands summer reading challenge prize! 📚💃🏽🍾

[swantonlibraryteens]

SUMMER READING FINALE Juggling Around the World with David Cain

All ages are invited to the library at 2:00 pm on Friday, July 28 for our summer reading finale! See all the different ways to juggle from around the world with David Cain, World Champion Juggler and holder of many Guinness World Records! The Grand Prize Drawing for everyone who finished the Reading Challenge or participated in Summer Bingo will follow!

[frankiede]

Low Cost Summer Holiday Activities

[escondidolibrary]

Join us for the next quarterly craft time for adults on Tuesday, July 25, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.!

Create your own customizable friendship bracelets with thread and assorted beads! In the spirit of our Summer Reading Challenge theme "All Together Now," patterns for inclusivity and diversity will be provided. Supplies will be provided and are limited. 

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Escondido Public Library.

#artsyadults #artsandcrafts #library #freeevent #friendshipbracelet #src #summerreadingchallenge #freecraft

[bellasbookclub]

We asked you for summer reading book recs and y'all delivered!

But did anyone else catch that a few books were recced by multiple people, and a few authors had multiple books recommended?

These books were recced at least twice:

Twice in 2024:

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Twice+ 2023-4:

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (recced by 4 people!)

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

These seven authors had at least two of their books recommended:

Tamsyn Muir

Terry Pratchett

Stephen Graham Jones

Martha Wells

Brandon Sanderson

Maggie Stiefvater

What do we think, BBC? Have you read these books and authors? Are any of them on your list for the '24 Summer Reading Challenge?

[nicky1388]

i am just going through these squares. it is so fun. this square was "new (to you) pairing". i chose Nick and Charlie from heartstopper. i am not new to the fandom and have read some Joe/Bash RPF but i have never read actual heartstopper fic. so, i thought i would give it a try. this was a heartwtenchingly beautiful piece. Charlie's struggles with his mother felt so familiar to me and i really felt for him. i can only dream of having the relationship Nick had with his mother in this but the writer did so well that i could literally picture Olivia Coleman as i was reading it. you should definitely check this out of you like childhood friends to lovers, heartstopper and easy reads.

[insidecroydon]

Ready. Get set: Croydon's reading challenge gets underway

Children aged from four to 11 could win fabulous prizes for taking part in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge, being run throughout Croydon’s libraries, starting today. The Reading Agency has partnered with the Youth Sport Trust for this year’s theme – Ready, Set, Read! – encouraging children to experience the thrill of sports and the power of teamwork through reading. Taking part in the…

[sannehale]

Book #2: The Martian 📖

“Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”

[true-bluesargent]

do you know what i miss. the summer reading challenge at my local library </3 they used to give us scratch and sniff stickers and there was always a different theme and if you completed it you could rent a dvd from the library for free or have a swimming voucher at the leisure centre!!!! and it was the most exciting thing ever and i want that feeling back of being like 9 and just devouring library books and staying up past my bedtime reading pretending i don't realise the time and having to carry a big backpack to the library with us every saturday because we borrowed so many books at once and my dad buying us a pastry from greggs on the way home as a treat i miss that part of my life so very much

[brightbeautifulthings]

Welcome to Forgotten YA Gems’ fifth annual Reading Bingo Challenge!

There are a lot of ways you can customize your challenge with length and number of books read. Whether you’re reading 8 books or 24, one month or all season, we hope you’ll join us!

Guidelines

Choose your card! We have options for small (8 books), medium (16 books), and large (24 books) cards.

The challenge begins June 1, 2023 and officially ends August 31, 2023, although you're welcome to set a different time limit if you want it to be more challenging!

You can join the challenge at any time! There is no deadline.

You’re welcome to read whatever you like for the challenge, from picture books to YA to adult. If you want to make things extra challenging and really target that backlist, you can stick to the group guidelines (five years or older and YA/MG/NA), but how you play is up to you!

Each book only counts for one square, so choose carefully!

If you’re good with a photo editor you can update your Bingo card with each book you’ve read.

Have questions? Andrea @thelivebookproject, Carrie @brightbeautifulthings, and Lore @cementeriodelibrosolvidads are happy to help!

Feel free to tag us and let us know what you’re reading, or join us on Discord for discussions. We’d love to know how you’re doing! We hope you all have fun with it, read some great books, and talk to some awesome people!

[threebooksoneplot]

So I really want to participate in the summer reading, but I just got back into reading and I’m afraid my list of book Recs kinda suck and are of the same genre 😂

That's very much allowed! we're big Genre girlies ourselves (G has been Struggling to come up with a list that's not just all-one-note gothic horror.) and not to spoil but Shannon also just got back into reading and decided she only felt comfortable reccing two books! The "5 books" thing is more of a benchmark than anything else—of course everyone's welcome to read more or fewer books as they choose (and you can still participate in the read & review part even if you didn't rec anything—though we are greedy for any and all recs.) you can also think outside the box and rec a graphic novel/webcomic, a poem, or a screenplay if you've been reading any of those!