Posts tagged summer reading
Sheer Bookwormery
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Only one month remains in my library’s adult summer reading contest, and all is going well! In a challenge that asks our customers to try books that span different genres, characters, settings, and cover art, we have had a great response and are steadily receiving turned-in game boards.
Fellow librarians, I challenge you to challenge your customers to think outside of their reading box and try new things. They may just find something that they love!
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Summer Reading 2012
What’s on my bookshelf this summer, you ask?
Why, a delightful blend of fiction, young adult, graphic novels, and children’s books:
- Meant to Be, by Lauren Morrill
- Hark! A Vagrant, by Kate Beaton
- Out of Oz, by Gregory Maguire
- The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach
- Mouse Guard, by David Petersen
- How to Buy a Love of Reading, by Tanya Egan Gibson
- Olive Kittredge, by Elizabeth Strout
- Love and Other Perishable Items, by Laura Buzo
- Falling Together, by Marisa de los Santos
- The Great House, by Nicole Krauss
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What can be found on your shelves this summer?
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Check out the adult summer reading contest that I made for my library!
The premise is basically a mix-and-match game. There are three different gameboards that have spaces for different genres, cover art, characters, and settings. Each card has 12 spaces and customers can turn in as many as they’re able to, so long as they don’t use a book more than once to fill a space.
So far the games have been in high demand and we keep having to print more out! (You can click on the small thumbnails at the bottom to see each of the three gameboards in more detail.)
Does your library do special programs for adults in the summer?
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Even though I don’t get summer breaks any more, I still love gathering up all of my summer reads together.
What’s on your bookshelves this summer?
