#summer reading challenge

[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]

The Bella's Book Club summer reading challenge is BACK for 2024! 📚

As 3B1P wraps up New Moon season, BBC is gearing up for Hot Rec Summer! Have a book (or five) you think book club would enjoy? Now's your chance to recommend it!

How to participate:

Fill out the Google form by June 10th, 2024 with up to five of your recommendations! These can be your own favorites, books you think go with Twilight or the Gothic genre, your favorite cursed books, or even plays, poetry, or nonfiction! Almost anything goes except for:

Books that already appear on Bella's list from Midnight Sun

Fanfiction

In solidarity with the ongoing boycott, books published by St. Martin's Press (see Google form for more info)

2. When the compiled rec list is posted on June 11th, choose five of your fellow BBC readers' recs and read them by early September! Come chat about your picks on the BBC Discord, or link us to your Goodreads/Storygraph review. We'll also be running the challenge on Storygraph so you can track your progress.

Didn't get to read everything you wanted to from last year's reclist? No worries, it's eligible for this year's challenge too! While you're at it, check out last year's reccer spotlights 💡

Happy reccing! 🎉

Bella’s Book Club is an interactive virtual book club created by the Three Books One Plot podcast. Our monthly Discord discussions are open to all! More info here.

[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!

[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.

[hybrid-vigour]

Read To Meet You

The story I wrote and illustrated for @corkcitylibraries' Summer Reading Challenge 2018.

It begins with a strange new arrival at Cork City Library, and follows Children's Library mascot Red and his friends on their quest to uncover the origins of this "most singular beast".

[sapphiccanadian]

Being an avid reader is great for the summer reading challenge, cause it started yesterday and I logged 345 minutes (five hours 45 minutes) already.

The "personal goal" is 1200 minutes (20 hours), and I'm 29% done in a single day.

Avid readers are fucking carrying that community goal. You need us.

[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!

[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.”

[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

[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

[nicky1388]

so, i saw this a couple of days ago and decided that i had to try it. it is a summer reading chllanege being run by @ficreadingchallenge that is easy and low pressure. it is meant to get you exploring different fics and interacting with the authors. that is why i am really trying it. i have been reading fanfic for almost 23 years but i am an AWFUL commenter. i always think that the author won't want my silly little thank you or whatever, so i have avoided it. i am trying hard not to do that anymore and this challenge shall help.

i have also decided that i am trying for a blackout bingo! i am going to do all 24 challenges and i am going to make the 25th challenge to start reading a SMAU as i hate them and have a lot of trouble reading them. i normally stick to only reading on AO3.

the makers seem to still be handing out cards if you want one, so i suggest grabbing one.

anyways, onto telling you about the first square i filled.

i took this challenge very seriously and decided to start with finding a fandom with less than 1000 fics. this task was both easier and harder than you would think. i didn't want to pick a random fic so although there were dozens upon dozens of fandoms with very few fics, i had to first find something i was comfortable enough with to know the characters.

i stumbled upon Robin Hood: Prince of Theives and it's 73 fics. it is one of my favorite movies and i know it well, so i felt that it was perfect to dive into. i ended up finding two fics. one relatively new general one and then a much longer, also gen fic, that actaully got added to my tbr list. i point out that they are gen fics because i don't usually read gen. i was actually looking for something slightly incesteous between Robin/Will that explored their pasts and how they came together.

instead i read Beside The Waterfall. it was a short and sweet fic which touches on events that would have taken place after the movie's end. things i have always been curious about. it was well written and sweet and i think it captured Marion, Will and Azeem's characters perfectly. i think Robin was slightly OOC but not enough to jar you from the story. if you are looking for something quick and adorable, this is a great choice. especially if you are familiar with the film. if you are, it really will tug your heartstrings a little and make you wish for more.

[bellasbookclub]

Reccer Spotlight: G!

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Mexican Gothic

Jamaica Inn

The Monstrumologist

A River Enchanted

The Importance of Being Earnest

G tried to think of genre-ly diverse recs and they came out Oops, All Gothic (ok, except for the last two.) Full text available in their tab of the Bella’s Book Club Summer Reading ‘23 Reclist!

more info on BBC Summer Reading 2023

more Reccer Spotlights

[hybrid-vigour]

The Queen

Character design created for Cork City Libraries' 2021 Summer Reading Challenge for kids.

This righteous royal appeared as a side character in a story about the adventures of Children's Library mascot Red in a magical land called Toy Towne. At story's end, the Queen knighted our plucky hero as Sir Redginald before he made his way home to @corkcitylibraries.

[inkandpanels]

This project is now live!

Do you feel nostalgic about your childhood library's summer reading program?

The Summer Reading Club aims to recreate that experience for bookworms of all ages with a one-month self-guided reading challenge, complete with tracking charts, prizes, and a completion certificate.

Learn more about this new Kickstarter project here.

[tomewardbound]

Changing Hands summer reading challenge prize! 📚💃🏽🍾