Page Turners: New Milford Library's Passport to Fiction can help you get through winter

As if the weather itself isn't enough to make you stay inside curled up with a good book, New Milford Library has a fun reading incentive for adults this winter.

You might even earn yourself a dinner, if you're lucky.

The library's Winter Adult Reading Program began in January and runs until Feb. 25. This year it is called Passport to Fiction. Each book you read gets you a raffle ticket.

The drawing has prizes from three different restaurants. The Friends of New Milford Public Library group is also providing prizes for registered participants who read a book from each of eight genres.

New Milford readers who haven't signed up should check in with the library soon because the last day of the program is Feb. 25. That's when the raffle tickets will be drawn. Do you think you can read eight books by then?

You get to choose them. Just remember to get your passport initialed at the main desk for each one you read.

Another thing you can do in this program is provide reviews of the books you read. It's optional, but easy to do online at http://readingpassport.blogspot.com or on paper at the library. The reviews are anonymous.

Maybe one of the books you'll read will be by author Frank Delaney. He's visiting the library for an Author Talk Feb. 16 at 6:30 p.m. There will be a question-and-answer session following his talk, as well as time for book signing.

Certainly Delaney's novels about Ireland may have you thinking ahead to March and St. Patrick's Day.

If you can't make it to New Milford to see him in February, maybe you can go to the Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot on March 12 at 2 p.m., when Delaney is scheduled to appear.

Delaney's novel "Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show" has made Hickory Stick's list of best-selling fiction in hardcover for 2010. His latest novel is "The Matchmaker of Kenmare."

He has a few other epic novels to his credit and considerable knowledge about fellow Irish authors as well.

So, from the Winter Reading Program at New Milford Library, we've progressed to talk of the Irish and March, when we'll finally reach the first day of spring.

More Information
Novels about Ireland by best-selling author Frank Delaney include: "Ireland" "Tipperary" "Shannon" "Venetia Kelly's Travelling Show" "The Matchmaker of Kenmare"

Let your reading get you through the rest of this month and you'll be almost there.

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