Explore the Arts @ KCPL
June 1–September 3
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Relax, Escape And Daydream
Beat the summer doldrums with KCPL's Britton Summer Reading Club for adults. Register for the 10th annual program at your local library beginning Tuesday, June 1. You are still required to read six books, but this year you can choose one each from six of the ten categories listed below.
Club Rules
Books must be checked out from a KCPL library. Unabridged audiobooks, Playaways and WVDeli e-Books also count. Children's titles are not acceptable. To complete the program, you must:
- Register at a local branch of the KCPL system
- Check out and read six books
- Record your books on the book log you receive when you register.
- Turn in the completed log by close of business on Friday, September 3.
Club Rewards
Club members are invited to a special program on Sunday, Sept. 12, at 2 p.m. (location to be announced). In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, local actors Rick Brown, Lilly Odekirk and Julie Wirts will perform Atticus, young Scout and older Scout Finch in a scene from the play. The three local actors are reprising their roles from a 2006 Kanawha Players production. Light refreshments will follow the presentation.
Tin is the traditional 10th wedding anniversary gift. In celebration of our 10th anniversary, those who complete the program will receive a handcrafted cookie cutter in the shape of the state of West Virginia from the Little Fox Cookie Cutters Factory, and their names will be entered into a grand prize drawing for a special tin cup crafted by local artisan Jiles (Jay) Mabe.
Categories
Power of Ten
Read any book with "ten" in the title (even if the word "ten" is embedded in a word) more information...
back to page menuTen Years of the WV Book Festival
Read any book by an author who is speaking at the West Virginia Book Festival this year or who has presented a program at a past festival some past authors
back to page menuTo Kill a Mockingbird
Its the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird, so we're celebrating with an online book discussion and we'll count it as a book read for the club–whether you read it this summer or have read it before. more information…
back to page menuAnimals Real and Imagined
Read any book, fiction or nonfiction, about animals, wild or domesticated see suggested titles
back to page menuBest of the Book Brawl
Read any book featured in KCPL's 100th Anniversary Book Brawl see the Book Brawl contenders
back to page menuTechnology: From Microwaves to NASCAR
Read any book about technology (including science fiction or science biographies or other nonfiction) see suggested titles
back to page menuMonstrous Tales
Read any book about vampires, werewolves or zombies see suggested titles
back to page menuA Rose By Any Other Name
Read any title, fiction or nonfiction book (including gardening) that contains the name of a flower see suggested titles
back to page menuReel Good Books
Read any book that has been made into a movie see suggested titles
back to page menuBritton by Genre
If you consider yourself a hopeless romantic, only feel truly inspired when reading inspirational fiction, or hold all genres other than mystery suspect we've collected sets of titles that will help you meet the britton challenge while reading almost exclusively in one of the following genres