Winter Reading Challenge

My first post with the new "library" theme, nice huh?


I have 100% completed the "Winter Reading Challange". If you don't know what the "Winter Reading Challange" is you can read More about it here.(this artiacle assumes you know what it is)., Today(March 17th) is the last day, whether or not I win or lose I would like to talk about my experience.  Firstly I saw the photo of the bingo card and that's what made me want to take the challenge. Before seeing it I rather foolishly assumed the challenge would be a bunch of books for you to read but that is not the case. The more interesting challenges are found below:

• Re-read your favourite book - One of my new favourite books(and graphic novels count) is "The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins": Amazon link, it's based on the first "chapter" of the podcast I listen to last year. That may sound strange bur the podcast was a DnD campaign and they basically translated the narrated content to a visual medium. I was very impressed and although they could not keep everything it's still very good. I am not the only one who thinks so, it got 4 and 5-star reviews on Amazon and like the podcast is worth enjoying!  It's also "the first book in a series" so I scored an extra point for that!
• Relax by the library's fireplace + Relax with a hot drink and read - So again I did these two together, getting a magazine, a hot drink and sitting by the fireplace*, very relaxing and I will do it again.  
• John Goodreads and track your reading - Not something I wanted to do at first but it was the last square so I decided to try it. Now I just started so I am not sure how much I like it but offhand, it's cool. They already recommended what looks to be a good book based on the 20 items I input. 
• Donate a book to the Friends of the Libary bookfair - Had a spare one lying around, you can't donate to the library directly now cause of this.(a picture is truly worth 1000 words here).
  UPDATE: You can now donate to the library again. 
• [Use Freegal, cloud library, flipster] - They are some online services the library has to offer, your library(if yours is not mine), may have them too. All you need is a library card to access them. Now they all use their own login, so keeping your card on your computer could be useful. I wrote a script which copies it to the clipboard when I hit "Windows key + N". I did not know about these till I did the challange. 
• Join us for family day- Noteworthy cause it was my OTAM for February
• Pick up a copy of your Wordsworth program guide - So I gave up going to a library program(VR) to go to the naturalist club potluck. So we finished our meals and are getting ready for the photo presentations, too people are coming around and one says  "want another deviled egg!" and I'm like "ok sure" The other one says "want a Wordsworth?" and I'm thinking "I gave up a library program to be here and I still end up with a Wordsworth!" LOL, the irony of the situation is really memorable to this day.
• Read a book by a real person - I read "I work in a public library", it's great, I recommend it. So long as the library has a copy you can read my review of it here.(click "see all reviews"), either read the book or check out her blog here.

Overall it was fun and I tried a lot of new things I did not know about! In the end I did not win but the important thing is I had fun!

My100% complete challenge card looks like this:

* Yeah they seem to allow this on the carpeted floors since the hot drinks are for sale nearby there and there is no sign up to say otherwise.