Subject: Goodbye to summer reading—and a sneak peek for Fall!

We've read over 1,600 books!!!

Congratulations to this year's final winner, Grandfather2! Enjoy the pizza! 🍕🍕🍕 There were 477 tickets in this raffle, making it the summer's most popular basket.

This year's top reader, sharonkay—who read a whopping 35 books!—will receive a magnetic bumper sticker (or huuuge fridge magnet, you do you.)

And that brings us to this year's grand total... which is OVER 1,600 BOOKS! As of Thursday morning, the final count is 1,690 books read by 215 readers—putting us more than two hundred above last year's total.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in Summer Reading 2022! We hope you had a great time, and read some awesome books.

But wait... there's more. 😱

Why let the fun end at the end of summer?

There's a new contest happening in Fall—and you're the first to know!

This coming October (the spookiest month of the year) the Library is holding holding our first ever Two-Sentence Horror Story Contest! To participate, compose your own original horror story—in only two sentences. You can enter as many stories as you like, as long as they are original and two sentences long.

We're still ironing out the details, so we don't have a grand prized picked out yet. The winner will be chosen anonymously by a panel of judges. Each and every participant will receive a custom bookmark printed with one of their horror stories. If you participated in February's First Line Literary Contest, the setup is very similar.

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We end the summer with sharonkay in first place, earning her the coveted summer reading magnetic bumper sticker. Congrats!

ALigas has taken second place, with summertime in third place and srfasciano in fourth place. Fifth place is a three-way tie between Beth, marie5k, and Carmela. Sixth place is a five-way tie (!) between teachetc, rusty, shariMK, Brousseau201, and LuvSummerReading.

Want to see more? Check out the full leaderboard.

That's all, folks! Weekly emails will return next year, when summer reading rolls around again. Until then, keep an eye out for reading challenges and literary contests by signing up for the library's monthly Adult Newsletter.

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Subject: Goodbye to summer reading—and a sneak peek for Fall!

But wait... there's more. 😱

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