2025 Adult READ (Read, Explore & Discover) Challenge!
The Game is Afoot!
Welcome to this year's Challenges!
Here's how it works:
Be a resident of the City of Milan or its environs and/or a library card holder here!
Choose ANY FIVE challenges from the list below and submit them throughout the summer (or all at once!) on the online forms (below).
You’ll have til midnight on Monday, Sept. 1 (Labor Day) to complete as many challenges as you like.
For each challenge you complete, you will receive 10 tickets for Grand Prize Drawings. Grand Prizes are gift cards to local businesses and area bookstores.
Complete all FIVE challenges and get 10 extra drawing tickets!
Complete any THREE challenges and we'll let you choose from our special box of neat smaller prizes!
Challenge Choices (watch for new options as we think of them!):
Read/Listen:
- Read/listen to/watch a book or DVD with the word “color” or a specific color name in the title.
- Read/listen to/watch a book or DVD set in, or about Michigan..
- Read or listen to a book from our classics collection.
- Read a type of book (mystery, sci fi, nonfiction) or an author that’s new to you.
- Read/listen to an award winning book. (Starter List HERE)
- Read/listen to any book that’s ever been a bestseller.
- Read a biography of someone you admire (browse in the 921 call numbers or search biography in the catalog).
- Read/listen to a book about a place you've been or would like to visit. (Search [country or place name AND fiction]. Use facets on left to narrow down results.
- Read/listen to a book that's been on your 'to read' list longer than two years!
- Read a Michigan Notable Book from any year (free e-book versions here.) Or you can search in our catalog for 'michigan notable books'.
- Read about anything you want!
Do:
- Check out an Adult Coloring Kit from the Library of Things and color your cares away!
- Check out a cookbook and try a new recipe!
- Try your hand at a new craft or hobby! (Search our catalog for calligraphy, crafts, carpentry, games, painting, ceramics, quilting, drawing, knitting, crochet, etc.) Or explore the video instruction at Craft & Hobby.
- Check out a puzzle or one of our new Library of Things items. (Search catalog for 'library of things' or "jigsaw puzzle".)
- Read to someone for three hours (total, doesn’t have to be all at once!).
- Let someone else read to you for a total of three hours.
- Write a review of one of the books you’ve read/listened to and submit it to us at the library or at info@milanlibrary.org (bonus points if you allow us to share it on social media, anonymously if you prefer).
- Check out one of the many great outdoor and indoor adventures in the Great State of Michigan by using a Michigan Activity Pass!
Learn or Do (More)!
- Pick a resource from the Michigan Electronic Library eResources collection. Poke around and find something of interest! Tell us about it! (Include the name of the resource and what you found).
- Visit one of our in-library exhibits and tell us what you learned and/or liked about it!
- Try learning a new language with Mango (you can even learn to talk pirate!)
- Learn a new game (check out a game and/or check out a book about games (e.g. chess, cards, brain puzzles, etc.)
- Looking for expert advice on a future purchase? Head on over to Consumer Reports to get some pro tips and tell us about it!
Have (More) Fun!
- Watch any movie that has won Best Picture (starter list HERE)
- Check out and read 3 magazines, either from our print collection or from our Woodlands Library Cooperative Overdrive collection.
- Check out something from our Library of Things (bluetooth speaker, beach toys, outdoor games, ice cream maker, garden tools, metal detector, lawn games, and more!).
- Pick up some free seeds and get started growing! Email info@milanlibrary.org or ask at Info Desk in Library.
Challenge forms are LIVE!
As always, if you'd like some help picking out a title, give us a call (439-1240) or email us (info@milanlibrary.org).
