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Complete the challenge by reading all 9 books and you'll unlock your completion rewards!
Finish the challenge and you'll receive:
• A surprise printable
• A collection of free ebooks
• A collection of free audiobooks
You'll also be entered to win bonus prizes including book boxes, reader t-shirts, and Barnes & Noble gift cards.
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If you've completed all 9 books, it's time to officially wrap up your Summer Reading Challenge and claim your rewards!
Everyone who successfully completes the challenge will receive:
A surprise printable
A collection of free ebooks
A collection of free audiobooks
PLUS, completed participants will be entered to win some of our bigger prizes, including reader book boxes, t-shirts, and Barnes & Noble gift cards! We will announce these winners in the Facebook group and via email.
Night, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol OatesI first saw this book when I visited the Burton Barr library in downtown Phoenix. I was really attracted to the book cover. I took a picture of it to put it on my Goodreads bookshelf. Then I got a free three month subscription from T-Mobile Tuesdays for this book service called Everand. I wanted to do a personal reading challenge since I am in the off season of reading challenges. I get one free audiobook every month and I cannot keep it once the free trial runs out like I can with Audible. So I decided to do the reading challenge. I saw the audiobook was on Hoopla. I should have looked there too before unlocking the audiobook on Everand, but it’s already unlocked, so I am sticking with this book! I borrowed a physical copy from the Phoenix Public Library and picked it up from the Palo Verde outdoor locker. I think that this book will be a great read! Here I go! 😃
“One of them was a massive mahogany bureau, atop of which a row of framed photographs had been placed with loving attention.
For you are securely in the world only if there are such photographs of loved ones to testify to your existence, and your worth” (14).
“But time is required for such an effort, as time is required for any growing thing to take root, send up shoots, falter into life, ‘flourish’” (34).
* In chapter 2 (Curious) it made me laugh when the narrator said it was none of your business what he bought from the grocery store.
“Though the library is one of my places of refuge, in recent months I have been avoiding it. I am not sure why. Sometimes such impulses grip me—instincts for which there are no name, though possibly they are, like most instincts, related to self-preservation” (37).
I love the library!
“Isn’t the point of literature to inspire readers to imagine?” (155).
* I liked the book cover and many of the stories were quite mysterious indeed. I finished reading this book 3 whole days ahead of my reading schedule! 😃
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| Closer look at cute ghost figure. |
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