They give out coupons to local businesses for things like a cookie or a piece of pizza, and they do a raffle drawing for various prizes at the end of the summer. We don’t really get any participants over 5th grade, but for some reason most of the more popular books are still out over the entire summer. Most of the real participants are the preschool kids whose parents read them stacks of books.

But “lunar-powered” has such a nice ring to it… *sigh*

It’s not really sad or dark. But then…I read a lot of sad and dark books so perhaps I can’t judge properly.

Maybe it’s literally dark. But not sad.

I signed up for the library reading program every year when I was younger, and somehow forgot all about it within the first three weeks.

Yeah, we should probably get back on topic. I’ll go start a library reading program thread for y’all.

Or we could change the topic into a READ EMBER! campaign.

*waves a banner enthusiastically*

Sad and dreary books? I can’t think of any…Dreary is bad, but sad is good. (Sometimes.)

Well, we could always start another topic for melancholy books (indeed, melancholy sounds so much nicer than just ‘sad,’ doesn’t it?) and thus help rid the world of topics that are irrelevant to their titles.

…Or something like that.

Yes, I know what you mean about crying over the beauty of something.

Ooh! Are you going to write a review for it?

Okay, I finished it. It was an interesting, easy read. However, the author’s obvious disdain for religion and “Believers” annoyed me. Apparently, the author has no idea what Christianity is actually about. She seems to be very lost, and searching for answers. I’m interested to see if that shows up more in the rest of the series. Also, the children showed typical secular fiction behavior in ignoring rules, just doing whatever they want. Those points aside, it is an interesting story concept, and it demonstrates very well man’s longing for the light.