Final Winners

The winner of the Week 6 drawing for the Adult Summer Reading Program is Tammy Boone from Courtland. She has won a $20 Walmart gift card. Congratulations Tammy!

The winner of our Grand Prize drawing of a $100 Walmart gift card is Glenda Sm...yers from Carrollton! Congratulations Glenda!

I hope you all enjoyed all the books you read this summer and hope you keep on reading! Check out our website www.blackwaterlib.org or our Facebook www.facebook.com/blackwaterlib for the latest goings-on at your local Blackwater branch! 

See you next summer!

Week 5 Winner

The Week 5 winner for the Adult Summer Reading Program is Angela Parr from Carrollton! Congratulations Angela! Angela will receive a $20 Walmart gift card.

This is the final week of the Adult Summer Reading Program, so get reading and get your comments in! We have one more weekly drawing for a $20 Walmart gift card and the grand prize drawing for a $100 Walmart gift card. Good luck everyone!

Week 6

JB's Rattles Reptile Show @ the Carrollton Branch

Hey everyone and welcome to the last week of the Adult Summer Reading Program!! Everyone has read some great books and some have won some awesome prizes! I hope you all made some dents in your "to be read" piles, were transported to cool places, or learned some useful information.  Even though the program is coming to a close, your local library branch is still open and hosting interesting programs and providing you with fun books, movies, and audio.

Remember to leave a comment here or on our Facebook page so you can included in our final weekly drawing for a $20 Walmart gift card and our Grand Prize drawing for a $100 Walmart gift card!! Comments left after 11:59pm on Sunday, August 5th will not be counted, so get them in before then. Good luck! 

Week 4 Winner

The Week 4 winner for the Adult Summer Reading Program is Shelby Bryan from Franklin! Congratulations Shelby! Shelby will receive a $20 Walmart gift card.

Only 2 more weeks left, so keep reading. We have 2 more weekly drawings for a $20 Walmart gift card and the grand prize drawing for a $100 Walmart gift card! Good luck!

Week 5

Riptide helping out at the Franklin Library!

Well we're certainly having fun this summer! How about y'all? Welcome to the Week 5 post for the Adult Summer Reading Program! I hope everyone is getting through some awesome books. If you're not...maybe you need some help finding something good to read. BRL recently subscribed to NoveList which is an excellent readers advisory database full of read-a-likes, recommended reading lists, book discussion guides and more! Click the link and try it out, you just might find some excellent reads for the rest of the summer.

A couple reminders: please be sure to give your first and last name, as well as the branch you registered at when you post your book comments so that we can identify and contact you if your name is selected in the weekly and grand prize drawings. Also, drawing weeks run from Monday through Sunday online. If you finish a book 1am on Monday, just wait until the Monday post pops up on the blog to post your comment. 

That should do it, have a great week everyone! 

Week 3 Winner

The Week 3 Winner is Katie Reilly from Smithfield! Congratulations Katie! Katie will receive a $20 Walmart gift card. 

Hope you all are staying out of the heat and enjoying some great reads. The new book list for the past 2 weeks will be coming out today or tomorrow, so give it a look and find something new to read!

Week 4

Ryan the Balloon Guy @ the Claremont Branch

Hello everyone and welcome to Week 4 of the Adult Summer Reading Program! As you can see, we're having fun here at the library and hope you all are enjoying your summer as well. We've seen a ton of great books here on the blog and on BRL's Facebook page and we're loving the different reviews everyone is posting.

Competition is fierce, so keep on reading and letting us know what library books you've completed this week. At stake is a weekly $20 Walmart gift card and the grand prize of a $100 Walmart gift card! Have a great one, y'all!

Week 2 Winner

The Week 2 Winner is Vickie Garrett from Windsor! Congratulations Vickie! Vickie will receive a $20 Walmart gift card. 

Hope you all are enjoying some great books and keep on reading!

Week 3

Hey everyone, this is the Week 3 Post for the Adult Summer Reading Program. Everything you read Monday July 9 through Sunday July 15 post as a comment to this post.


Sorry for the delay and happy reading!

Week 1 Winner

The Week 1 winner for the Adult Summer Reading Program is Kathleen Cavana from Carrollton! Congratulations Kathleen! Kathleen will receive a $20 Walmart gift card.

Everyone seems to be reading some great books. Just some reminders - post a comment about a book you finish that week to the appropriate SRP weekly post. Online, the drawing runs Monday through Sunday. The new week's post will be up roughly around 9am on Mondays.

If you have any questions, please email us at socialmedia@blackwaterlib.org. Good luck everyone!

Week 2

Hello everyone and welcome to Week 2! I hope you're keeping cool and enjoying the many good books out there.

This week, I just wanted to share a few books that are getting some great buzz out in the "blogosphere."

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?

Blackwater has 5 copies and there are already 12 holds, so get your name on the list!

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thomason Walker - Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life. - Speculative literary fiction, great reviews are popping up all over the place.

Blackwater has 3 copies, 1 of which is available, so snatch it up while you can.

The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty - A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives.- Great for those interested in silent films and the Roaring Twenties.

Blackwater has 2 copies that were just cataloged yesterday.


All right - that's it for this week, folks. Get reading and leave a comment here for the books you finish this week. Love to see what everyone is reading and it can't hurt to get a chance to win a Walmart gift card :)

Week 1

Display at the Carrollton branch

Hello everyone, the Summer Reading Program has begun! Be sure to check out the great programs for the whole family. Register at your local branch and get reading! Fill out an entry slip for every book you read during the program at the branch, or post a comment to the week's post here on the blog, or on the weekly post on Facebook. Book comments on the blog or Facebook will receive 2 entries per book.

To get started this week, can we talk about the number of book to movie adaptations that are occurring? It seems that more than ever Hollywood is adapting books to movies due to present reader-followings. EarlyWord posted a list of upcoming young adult titles coming out in 2013 - particularly popular is the first of the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare, The Host by Stephanie Meyer of Twilight fame (and Breaking Dawn, pt. 2 is due out in November), and the long-awaited adaptation of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

But 2013 is way out - and there are plenty of other film adaptations coming out before the end of the year. The Great Gatsby and The Perks of Being a Wallflower have generated plenty of buzz but, in addition, Life of Pi by Yann Martel and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (with Keira Knightly and Jude Law) are due out this fall, too! The Vernon Area Library has a great Pinterest board with links to a few trailers of upcoming adaptations.

Is Hollywood really doing more book to film adaptations, or is the Internet better at finding and bringing it to attention? Whatever the case, we've obviously got some great movies coming up and you should get reading (or re-reading) some of these titles in preparation!

SRP is Almost Here!

Hello again, friends, and welcome back to Blackwater Regional Library's Summer Reading Blog! I look forward to finding out what everyone is reading and we have got some cool changes this year. 

This post will outline the rules, directions, and last, but not least, the prizes!

The program will begin Monday, June 25th and run through Saturday, August 4th. There will be 6 weekly drawings and 1 grand prize drawing.

Directions:

1. Register at the circulation desk of your local branch. Adults 18 and older are eligible.
2. Participate by reading books, eBooks, or audiobooks.
3. There are two ways to enter the weekly drawings:

• At the library - fill out an entry slip for every book you finish reading (after June 25th). 
• Online - leave a comment about the book(s) you finish reading on that week's blog OR Facebook post. (That's right, we have Facebook now!)

4. There will be a new post each week on the blog and Facebook page where you can add your comment - please be sure to leave your full name, the book title, what you thought about the book, and the branch where you registered for the Summer Reading Program. 

• For the blog, there is no need to create an account. Simply select "Name/URL" from the drop-down menu, fill in your full name and branch, and ignore the URL box. 
• For Facebook, make sure you include your branch in your comment so we know who  to credit the entry to. 

5. Online submissions are worth 2 entries per book in the drawings!

6. 6 weekly drawings for a $20 Walmart gift card, 1 grand prize drawing for a $100 Walmart gift card! The more you read, the better your chances! Each week will run from Monday to Saturday. Drawings will be held the following Wednesday, except for the first week due to the holiday. The first drawing will be July 5th. 

That's about it, I hope you all are excited and I look forward to your comments. Look out for the Week 1 post on Monday!