Library Reading Program.
My local library has a Summer Reading Program.
For GROWN UPS.
Yes, they have one for kids, too, of course. But they have one for GROWN UPS.
!!!
Anyway, I went to the “come talk about your summer books” thing this afternoon. At the end of which, they do the weekly prize drawing (you get to put in a ticket for each book you read). I won!!! I won a $10 gift card to a local coffee shop! Woot!!!! Coffee!! Books!!! Can it get any better?
earthdog wrote:
cool, I wonder if they also have one here in San Jose.
Posted on 25-Jun-06 at 5:41 pm | Permalink
spiffikins wrote:
hmm summer reading eh….how does this work? does one read specific books? or just randomlyread books and then share with others?
Posted on 25-Jun-06 at 7:23 pm | Permalink
mortaine wrote:
You read a book (any book, multiple books, even listenable books), go to the library (any branch in Santa Cruz County) and fill in a bookmark with the title, author, and your comments. The bottom of the bookmark is where you put your contact information for the weekly drawings, and the top of the bookmark (with your comments on the book) gets put up in the branch somewhere.
Every Sunday afternoon at 2 PM in the Central Branch (except one, which had a pre-existing conflict) there’s brownies and lemonade and “generally talk about books” in the upstairs meeting room. At the end of the meeting is the drawing, though you don’t need to be there to win.
At the end of the 6 weeks, there’s also a grand prize drawing, into which all the entries from the whole summer will go.
It brings me a lot of happiness to know this is going on in Santa Cruz, let me tell you.
Posted on 25-Jun-06 at 9:11 pm | Permalink
scaryshari wrote:
Sounds like an awesome program.
I’ll have to see if the San Jose Public Library system has anything like that (I hope!) Since I haven’t been much into reading lately, this might be a good kick in the butt for me.
Where are you again — Santa Cruz County somewhere, right? Congrats on winning the coffee certificate!
Posted on 26-Jun-06 at 9:23 pm | Permalink