Diane Adams
Reading free books
I hope you are having fun finding books for the 2025 book challenge. The prompt for today is very easy to accomplish. Choose to read a book you got for free (and of course, library books count). But if you have friends or family that loan you books when they are done and you haven’t read some, pick one up and enjoy! And if you don’t have friends and family loaning you books, then stop by the library and borrow one of our books to read. And then, visit North Wild bookstore and loan your own books to friends and family in the hopes they will then loan books to you.
Less than 250 pages
I hope all you readers are still making progress on your 2025 reading challenge to read 25 books following 25 different prompts. And if not, today is a great day to start or return to the challenge. And even if you don’t want to participate in the challenge, we hope you will visit the library and borrow a book. Reading can be a very important part of life and help us all relax, know more, become more empathetic and even sleep better. Another reason for adults to read is to show children in their life that reading can be an activity of choice and that it is one of the many ways we learn throughout our entire lives. Grab a book today and let a child see you reading. If you do most of your reading digitally these days, show your children the screen so they see you are reading.
Less than 250 pages
I hope all you readers are still making progress on your 2025 reading challenge to read 25 books following 25 different prompts. And if not, today is a great day to start or return to the challenge. And even if you don’t want to participate in the challenge, we hope you will visit the library and borrow a book. Reading can be a very important part of life and help us all relax, know more, become more empathetic and even sleep better. Another reason for adults to read is to show children in their life that reading can be an activity of choice and that it is one of the many ways we learn throughout our entire lives. Grab a book today and let a child see you reading. If you do most of your reading digitally these days, show your children the screen so they see you are reading.
Next prompt: Books about books
April is the last month of school year programming, although we do creep a bit into May. The silent book club will meet on Monday, April 14 at 6:30. Elementary Fun will have its last session on Wednesday, April 30. Storytime will continue for two more weeks until May 8. Crafters’ Café will continue through May on alternate Tuesdays with the next opportunity to craft together being Tuesday, April 22 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Lots of non-book options
Welcome April! The sun is high in the sky and feels good on pale skin. But it is also the season of mud. I love settling in under a blanket on our porch and soaking up the sun’s rays while reading and avoiding walking in mud. I am reading lots of children’s books at the moment getting ready for sharing summer reading details with the youth in this community. So today I think I’ll share some of our ‘non-book’ options at the library.
Challenge: Spring, rebirth
March has been eventful. Reading as escape, release or just a break is all the more important during chaotic times. Reading can help us process what is happening and sometimes just give us a break from what is happening. So, grab a book or download a magazine and spend time relaxing as you read.
Books with a northern focus
Hopefully we have well and truly entered the season of mud. I don’t like it, but know that we have to get through this season to get to spring. It is very easy to stay indoors in this season and read in the evenings (or knit). Thus far this year I am working hard at alternating my reading between light, cozy titles and heavy reading of a variety of genres. I’ve read non-fiction social commentaries, histories, literary novels that explore social issues, and a classic or two that just took more energy to read as the language was dense. Keeping up, at least nominally with the news, means I have to keep reading light, cozy titles to stay healthy.
The best last sentences
I mentioned in last week’s column that I’d be sharing book prompt ideas two weeks in a row, because I forgot to include ideas in the column for Feb. 28. This week the prompt is to read titles based on the last sentence of the book. This was a prompt I borrowed from another list and had to go searching for books that were supposed to have the best last sentences. Here are eight titles that I’ve read that I could agree had a good last sentence. The subject matters vary tremendously, and they were written between 1868 and 2005, so other than their last sentence being a marvelous end to the book very little in common.