As we travel the open seas this summer, our staff are recommending some “hidden gems” for your reading. These gems are books that may have slipped your notice but have been read by at least one of our staff and they’re confident that you may like it, too. Even better, this gem collection is easy to find.
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Get your pirate hat, find your sea legs and join us at our annual kickoff to summer, next Friday, June 6th, 5pm to 8pm. We’ll transform Ravenna City Park into a Treasure Island getaway for the evening with live music, games, activities, a photo booth, food trucks, a pirate costume contest and much more.
Continue reading “Set sail for Treasure Island!”
Last Sunday’s Chicago Sun Times included a 2025 “Summer Reads” list that went viral because 10 of the 15 books on the list weren’t real. Turns out, the newspaper plopped in some syndicated content that was AI generated. The AI had actually invented book titles attached to popular authors and had even created a brief synopsis for each book (Yikes!). Well, we can promise that our 2025 summer reading list is full of real books, recommended by real people.
Continue reading “A Summer [Real] Book List”
Summer’s comin’ ’round the bend, and we’re kickin’ it off proper with Rodeo Night at Ravenna City Park next Friday, June 7th. Gather up your folks and mosey on down to our free, family-friendly shindig, fit for buckaroos of all ages. It’s our 3rd annual hoedown, and we reckon it’s gonna be the best one yet!
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Our Readin’ Rodeo summer challenge is saddled up and ready to ride! Some of you know exactly what we’re talking about and you’re ready to go (yee-haw!). If you don’t know what we’re talking about, keep reading so you don’t miss the fun.
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Our Summer Challenge officially ended July 30th and wow, did you work hard! In just eight weeks, you read over 430,000 minutes, completed almost 3,000 activities, and redeemed lots of prizes. 133 of you who read (at least) 28 hours completed the challenge and earned an “All Together Now” pin. Everyone who participated was eligible to earn points, redeem them for prizes, and was included in the grand prize drawing, held yesterday. Who won?
Continue reading “Rising to the (Summer) Challenge”
This past Friday, we kicked off summer reading with ReedFest! Check out this blog post to see our pictures from ReedFest and get the details on our summer reading challenge.
Continue reading “ReedFest Wrap-Up and Summer Reading Challenge Details”
Now that August is here, it is time for our Oceans of Possibilities summer reading challenge to sail off into the sunset. We would like to thank each and every one of you who participated this summer! It has been an incredible eight weeks of reading, activities, and celebration of community. When we all come together, there is truly an ocean’s worth of possibilities.
Altogether, we had 468 summer reading participants with a total of 399,932 minutes read. Wow!
Here are some highlights and pictures from our summer.
Continue reading “Thanks for a great summer of reading!”
This week kicks off our summer reading challenge, Oceans of Possibilities!
By logging your reading minutes and participating in activities, you earn smaller prizes along the way and tickets to enter our grand prize drawings! Each week, a new set of activities will be unlocked for you to complete. You have until July 31, 2022 to enter all your progress into Beanstack, because the winners for the grand prize drawings will be drawn August 1!
Keep reading to learn more about our summer reading challenge and to check out the grand prizes.
[August 2, 2022 note: Our summer reading challenge has now ended, but you can take a look at how the summer went by reading our summer reading wrap-up post here.]
Continue reading “Explore Oceans of Possibilities with our Summer Reading Challenge!”
Sincerely, Cornelius 