Adult Reading Challenge for 2023 now underway at Robey Memorial Library ...

“Find your Voice” is the theme of Robey Memorial Library’s 2023 Adult Reading Challenge, which is now underway and runs through December 31. Robey Memorial Library challenges everyone to read something new or different this year.

Participants can receive a prize drawing entry for reading from one of each of 12 categories: Author’s First Book; Author/Genre Never Read; Autobiography/Memoir; Community Themed; Epistolary (Letter or Journal); Featuring a creative activity; Featuring social change; History; Magazine; Poetry; Recommended; and Religious, Spiritual or Inspirational.

Prizes will be distributed by random drawing after the challenge is complete December 31 of this year. Those prizes include eReader/tablets and Waukon Bucks/local business gift certificate packages. Books must be read during the 2023 calendar year to be eligible for the drawing. Participants can submit their entry form to the library or online throughout the year. A bonus entry is given to participants who complete all 12 categories.

This year’s prize sponsors include Aztec Parlor; BD Productions; Culligan Water Conditioning; FreedomBank; Holthaus Tax & Accounting; Kelly Concrete; Palmer Abstract; Shafer Law Office; Sweeney Real Estate; Upper Iowa Insurance Services Corp.; and Yen Hing Dragon. Contact Robey Memorial Library with any questions at 563-568-4424, www.waukon.lib.ia.us or robeymemorial@waukon.lib.ia.us. Submitted image.