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First Lines Fridays: August 23, 2019

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First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

  • Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
  • Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
  • Finally… reveal the book!

First Lines:

Welcome Friend,

Congratulations on your purchase of this American-made genuine book. Each component of this book was selected to provide you with maximum book performance, whatever your reading needs may be.

Did the quote pique your interest? View this book on Goodreads!

Denton Public Library Summer Reading Challenge Update

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Well, I signed up for the Summer Reading Challenge just a few days after it started, and I’m happy to say I’ve already completed the program by reading all 10 hours and completing all 10 activities.

When I used to do this every year it was set up a little differently, but I think this version is just as fun really. It’s just got a more definite ending than the old one.

The cool thing is the prizes. After 5 hours and 5 activities you get a free book. I chose Tina Fey’s Bossypants, which I blogged about winning a little while back. Then after you finish the full 10 hours + 10 activities, you get entered to win 1 of 3 Chromebooks. And for each 5 hours you read past that you get your name entered again.

The thing I love about that prize is that, especially in summer, the 3 libraries here are often the only air conditioned place that people can go for free and spend all day. So a lot of the poorer people in town wind up putting in lots of library time when it’s hot out. I personally used to spend every day there in summer, and every afternoon during the school year. So most of the people in for the Chromebooks will be people who probably couldn’t have gotten something like that on their own.

Anyway, I am at 762 minutes (that’s 12 hours, 42 minutes) right now even with this minor slump I’ve been in this month, so I’m pretty darn proud of myself.

If any of you are doing Summer Reading Challenges of your own, I’d love to know how you’re doing! 🙂