Adults Read Two
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Take part in our Summer Reading Challenge
The Summer Reading Challenge isn't just for children! Celebrate your love of books and reading this summer and join our adult reading challenge. You can take part in the Adults Read Two Competition by telling us about two books you have read this summer, and be in with a chance to win a £50 book voucher through our prize draw. Just select the competition tab below to enter.
You can also take part in our #30DayBookChallenge from 13 July. This is just for fun but can be used for ideas for your reading over the Summer. We’d love to know the first book you ever read, what book makes you instantly happy or a book by your favourite author. Join in the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and tell us #WhatYouAreReading
Whether it be a gripping thriller or cosy romance, reading a book for just six minutes can help improve an individual's mental health. You can now join the library online and get instant access to all our free online resources including eBooks, eAudio books, eMagazines and eNewspapers, just click here.
If you have children or grandchildren there is also a list of online children's events which are running over the summer just select the Online events tab below to see details.
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Read two books (they can be an eBook, eAudio book, a library book or one of your own) between 1 July and 31 August 2020 to be in with a chance to win a £50 book voucher through our prize draw. All you have to do is to write the titles and authors of the two books you have read, along with what you thought of them (this can be simply one word e.g. “good” or longer, your choice).
Click ‘add an idea’ to enter. Add a title and author and then write a review in the description box, you can also add a picture if you wish.
- The closing date is 31 August
- You need to live within the boundaries of Cheshire West and Chester Council, be aged 16 or over, and be a member of Cheshire West and Chester Libraries in order to win
- If you’re not already a member you can join online here
- If you don’t want to submit your entry below, you can post it to: Summer Reading Challenge, Ellesmere Port Library, Civic Way, Ellesmere Port, CH65 0BG
- Winners will be announced in September and contacted by the email address used to register for this site
- You can view the full terms and conditions of the competition here.
View All Ideas8 months ago
The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me, Paul Joseph Fronczak
I stumbled across this book when looking for a book of the same name and landed up buying this one instead. In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped a baby, Paul Fronczak, from a Chicago hospital. Then, two years later, police found a boy abandoned outside a store in New Jersey. The FBI track down Dora Fronczak, the kidnapped boy's mother, who identifies the abandoned boy as her son. Paul however was always unsure about his true identity. Fifty two years on, Paul Fronczak, discovered via a DNA test that he was definitely not the kidnapped child and set out to solve two fifty year old mysteries, breaking open the second longest cold case in US history. Who was he and why was he abandoned? And also where was the man whose life he had been living. Where was the real Paul Fronczak. Heartbreaking and compelling. A real page turner.
8 months ago
Black Lives Matter
I've been reading to educate myself more on the Black Lives Matter movement. I've enjoyed books including; 'Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race' by Reni Eddo-Lodge, 'Homegoing' by Yaa Gyasi and 'White fragility-why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism' by Robin Diangelo.
8 months ago
Elton John - Me
Great autobiography. A life of ups and downs which Elton lays bare for all to see.
8 months ago
'The Nanny State Made Me': Stuart Maconie
An engaging, thought-provoking and provocative read which outlines the case for a renewed sense of community in Britain.
8 months ago
The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
I enjoyed this book about a family of toymakers, The Godmans, who make the most magical toys to sell in their shop, The Emporium. However, there are secrets kept within the family that change all of their lives. This was a different read, but enjoyable nevertheless!
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