Adult Summer Reading

Summer reading suggestions 😎

New summer reads!

Congratulations to Joanne and Sarah D., the lucky winners of gift cards to Good Cause Gifts and the YMCA. Keep reading... there are still 13 more prizes to go! We're up to a whopping 470 books read by 129 participants 😮 ...

Find your next read!

Our first raffle winners are in! Congratulations to our first two raffle winners! Justine and Bethany are the lucky winners of gift cards to Home Depot and Safari Golf. That still leaves another fifteen raffle prizes to go! It's going to be a great ...

Fold your way to more summer reading points 😎

Badges and points and challenges, oh my! It's our second week of Summer Reading, and we now have 117 readers (woohoo!) who have earned a total of 163 badges, completed 39 challenges, and netted over 600 points. Check out the challenges and events ...

Summer reading is off to a great start!

Off to a great start! Adult Summer Reading registration is open, and we already have over 80 participants! (If you haven't started yet, register here!) Readers have already finished over 120 books so far... wow! If you're looking for ideas on what t ...

Adult Summer Reading Program Sneak Peak

Welcome back! How are our favorite readers doing? We hope you're looking forward to summer reading! We're still finalizing the library's plans for this year—if you haven't noticed, there have been some big changes in the last few months!—but we ...

Farewell to Summer Reading

We'll see you next year! “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” —A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh) We put in a lot of hard work, had a lot of fun, and read a TON of books in this year's Adult Summer Reading program. W ...

Summer isn't over yet 🌞

A few last things... As we enter the last week of Adult Summer Reading, here are a few things to do before August 22: Get your final raffle tickets in before noonRSVP for the Adult Summer Reading ice cream party hereHand in your yellow booklet—it's ...

Summer reads and literary weekends!

Spend a literary long weekend in Hartford Looking for something to do with the rest of your summer? Literary Hub takes a look at local literary landmarks—including museums, cozy coffee shops, and performance spaces—in its article How to Spend a L ...

Laughter is the best medicine.

Congrats to this week's winners! Congratulations to this week's winners, Gail and Amanda. The Train Tour basket received 297 tickets from 71 participants—the most so far! The Cocktail Cruise basket received 264 tickets from 66 participants. With ...