Summer Reading Programs For Adults!

Well, the kids can stop worrying about me nagging them to join the library's summer reading program. Now I can stop living vicariously through them and sign up for myself at King County Library System's Adults Summer Reading! Mine is much better than the one for those silly kids anyway.

I've got badges to earn, and lists to make, and quizes to complete, and goals to set, and, and, and! It's like they took everything I like most in life, wrapped it up in books, and gave it to me. I'm as happy as a cat in cream. A dolphin in the sea. A worm in a book.

Anyway, I'm plugging along, entering my books and my time, and looking out for a chance to make a good quiz. I joined last week, and I've already reached at least level one for most of the badges!

The badges include:

You've Joined! This one was not difficult.

Reading Time:I forget if I set a goal or if there is a program goal, but I haven't made it yet.

Ebook Reading: I got this one.

Reading Goal: I set this for I forget how many books but I haven't made it yet. Update: I made it. It was something silly like 17 books in two months or something.

Quiz Maker: I did one for Missoula.

Quiz Taker: I'm at level 15!

Quote: I used one from a poetry book. Also found a good one in Most Dangerous.

List: No surprise that I've earned this one!

Tag: I can throw some down!

Similar Title: This was fun, because I had just noticed similarities between two books.

Star Rating: Rate it, baby!

Shelve it!: This is just putting books on your Summer Reading list. I think it's supposed to only be library books. I'm at 8.

Comment : Soon I'll have something to say.

Summary: I'm not good at these. But I'll do one for a virtual badge!

Also, for my own personal Summer Reading, I want to do a book a day (#bookaday on twitter). I'll count on my picture books to keep me on track. Summer for me started on June 25th, and ends whenever the school year starts up again. So:

June:

25:  Missoula, Jon Krakauer
26: Lock In, John Scalzi
27:All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Sidney Taylor
28: The Spider's War, Daniel Abraham
29: Kiss Me Deadly, ed. Trisha Telep
30: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen,  Lois McMaster Bujold

July:

1. The Darling Dahlia's and the Eleven O'Clock Lady, Susan Wittig Albert 
2. Starry River of the Sky, Grace Lin 
3. Only a Promise, Mary Balogh 
4. Castle in the Air, Diana Wynne Jones 
5. Death Cloud, Andrew Lane 
6. Midnight Blue, Pauline Fisk 
7. Fires of Winter, Roberta Gellis 
8. Hotel Ruby, Suzanne Young 
9. To Sail a Darkling Sea, John Ringo 
10. Demigods & Magicians, Rick Riordan 
11. Mystic and Rider, Sharon Shinn 
12. The Sword of Summer, Rick Riordan 
13. The Time Traders, Andre Norton 
14. The Reason I Jump, Naoki Higashida
15. Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie 
16. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, William Joyce
17. Bronze Gods, A.A. Aguirre 
18. Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy, Susan Vaught 
19. Over Sea Under Stone, Susan Cooper 
20. Dog Warrior, Wen Spencer 
21. Royal Street, Suzanne Johnson
22. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola
23. Death at Gills Rock, Patricia Skalka 
24. Listen, Slowly, Trannha Lai
25. This Book Is Overdue..., Marilyn Johnson
26. America: Imagine a World Without her, Dinesh D'Souza
27. Born of Fury, Sherrilyn Kenyon
28. Prey For a Miracle, Aimee Thurlo
29. Heat of the Night, Sylvia Day
30. Counterpunch, Aleksandr Voinov
31. Only Enchanting, Mary Balogh

August:

1. Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas 
2. Penric and the Shaman, Lois McMaster Bujold 
3. Bad Blood, Dana Stabenow 
4. Star Nomad, Lindsay Buroker
5. Castaway Planet, Ryk E. Spoor
6. Friendly Gables, Hilda Van Stockum
7. Islands of Rage and Hope, John Ringo
8. Cruel Miracles, Orson Scott Card 
9. Find Me, Rosie O'Donnell 
10. The Blackthorn Key, Kevin Sands 
11. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah Maas
12. Front Lines, Michael Grant 
13. 101 Famous Poems, ed. Roy Cook
14. The Ordeal of Change, Eric Hoffer
15. The Crocodile's Last Embrace, Suzanne Arruda
16. Saga Vol 1, Brian Vaughan 
17. Coraline, Neil Gaiman 
18. Blackbird Fly, Erin Entrada Kelly 
19. Flight of Magpies, K.J. Charles 
20. The Hollow Boy, Jonathan Stroud 
21. I Could Do Anything...  Barbara Sher
22. March, Book Two, John Lewis 
23. Moon Called, Patricia Briggs 
24. One False Note, Gordon Korman
25. The Golden Princess, S.M. Stirling
26. Rapture in Death, J.D. Robb 
27. Jackdaw, K.J. Charles
28. Town in a Cinnamon Toast, B.B. Haywood
29. Hour of the Bees, Lindsay Eager 
30. Star Trek 2, James Blish
31. Afternoon of the Elves, Janet Lisle 

September: 

1. Uncovering You: Contract, Scarlett Edwards 
2. The Man in the Brown Suit, Agathat Christie 
3. Brown-Eyed Girl,  Lisa Kleypas
4. The Last Wish, Andpzej Sapkowski 
5. White Night, Jim Dresden 
6. Galactic Derelict, Andre Norton
7. Changes, Mercedes Lackey (end of summer)

Extras:

1. Sorcery and Cecelia, Patricia Wrede & Caroline Stevermer 
2. Lights Out! Donald Bain 
3. The Grand Tour, Patricia Wrede & Caroline Stevermer 
4. The Mislaid Magician Patricia Wrede & Caroline Stevermer
5. Firewing, Kenneth Oppel
6. World of Ptavvs, Larry Niven 
7. Queer Trade, K.J. Charles 
8. Eidolon, Grace Draven 
9. Beholding Bee, Kimberly Fusco
10. Touching My Father's Soul, Jamling Tenzing Norgay
11. Honor Girl, Maggie Thrash