2024 Adult READ (Read, Explore & Discover) Challenge!
Choose Your Own Challenges!
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SATURDAY, SEPT. 7 AT MIDNIGHT!
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 Saturday, Sept. 7 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 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 “adventure” in the title.
- Read/listen to/watch a book or DVD set in, or about Michigan..
- Read 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 a cookbook and try a new recipe!
- Try your hand at a new craft or hobby! (Search our catalog for crafts, carpentry, games, painting, ceramics, 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 the Great State of Michigan by using a Michigan Activity Pass!
Learn (More)!
- Pick a resource from the Michigan Electronic Library (MEL) collection. Dive in (so to speak) 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.)
Have (More) Fun!
- Read a book or watch a movie/tv show that makes you laugh! (List HERE.)
- Check out and read 3 magazines, either from our print collection or from our Woodlands Library Cooperative Overdrive collection.
- Try out a book, magazine, movie or tv show from our hoopla collection.
- Check out something from our Library of Things (bird watching, chess set, ice cream maker, tool kit, metal detector, lawn games, and more!).
- Use the Michigan Electronic Library's resources to check off a Bucket List Item (personal or family bucket!).
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).
