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2025 Summer Reading Challange
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Week 0- Summer Reading Challange Information and Sign up
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Great! Can’t wait. Thanks for organizing
So excited!! Thank you all for your hard work on putting this together!!
Looking forward to the many suggestions of more books to read!!
Just a small thing...June 26th is a Thursday and August 24th is a Sunday. So does this go from Friday, June 27th-Saturday, August 23rd? BUT I am looking forward to this year's summer reading challenge!
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The website says you have to also complete 4 themed activities. Is that referring to the themed reading weeks?
it’s the most wonderful time of the year!!!!!!!
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I am glad you are so excited by our SRC. The four themed activities are actually separate from the theme reading weeks list you saw on our website. On the back of the paper tracker's you will find more information on those four themed activities. I assure you they will all be very easy to participate in.
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Rose wrote: "it’s the most wonderful time of the year!!!!!!!"
Abby wrote: "The website says you have to also complete 4 themed activities. Is that referring to the themed reading weeks?"
Freya wrote: "i love a summer reading challenge!!"
Krystal wrote: "Excited to get started!"
Mirkat wrote: "Yay, summer reading!"
Jessica wrote: "Woohoo! Looking forward to this!"
Alicia wrote: "Just a small thing...June 26th is a Thursday and August 24th is a Sunday. So does this go from Friday, June 27th-Saturday, August 23rd? BUT I am looking forward to this year's summer reading challe..."
Vickie wrote: "Looking forward to the many suggestions of more books to read!!"
Kathleen wrote: "Looking forward to it!"
Karina | KooksBookNook wrote: "Great! Can’t wait. Thanks for organizing"
We are very excited to have you all! Be sure to stop by your local branch or email us to sign up.
Yay can’t wait! This always encourages me to slow down and enjoy the summer
first time doing the summer reading challenge! is there a downloadable copy of the tracker to get the four events information? i looked on the website/email and can’t find a link on the 2025 SRC page- thanks!
I’m excited for recommendations and to catch up on my TBR!
Hooray for another year of summer reading!
This is great. I love reading and signed up this year.
Late start but just got ‘God of the Woods’ from the library!!!
Well, gee, I was bummed that there weren't themed weeks this year, but the group was going all along!! Somehow I didn't see the notifications.
Welcome to APL’s Summer Reading Challenge on GoodReads!
How does this work this year?
- Starting the week of June 30th, we will have 8 weeks of Summer Reading Challenge Discussion Posts. Where each week has a different theme and title recommendations and a prompt to answer!
- Everyone is open to post and comment about book titles and make their own recommendations. Let us know your favorite parts of the books you have read.
- Last and certainly not least, having fun and making new book friends along the way!
Summer Reading Challenge is from Friday, June 27th to Saturday, August 23th. We will be posting on Mondays. The GoodReads Reading Challenge this year is a bit different than prior years. We are asking you to read 1000 minutes. That boils down to 16 hours and 40 minutes over the eight weeks. 2 hours and 5 minutes is really just a mere 125 minutes a week, you can do that! Our finishing prize this year is a Tote bag!
At the beginning and once you complete your challenge, we ask that you send the following information to our email, albanyreads@albanypubliclibrary.org.
In the email subject heading, you can type GoodReads SRC 2025
In the body of the email let us know:
- Your first and last name along with your GoodReads username (So we can verify it is you!)
- Library Branch to pick up your prizes
-Optionally your favorite aspect of the summer reading challenge
Do not feel obligated to remember all this information, this post will stay up. We will have reminders every week in the discussion posts as we are reaching the end of the challenge. Plus, we have all Summer! There's plenty of time!
We will see you all here again on June 30th.