2025 LOGOS & MYTHOS SUMMER READING
June 1 – July 27
Read Books. Interact with Readers & Authors. Win Prizes.
#ShareTheRead
Reading Challenge Categories
What’s it all about?
- Read as many books as you can in the announced categories.
- Interact with readers in a Facebook group and during Zoom events.
- Meet new authors and ask them questions.
- Win autographed books and other bookish prizes.
Looking for a book by a Featured Author or an Author of the Round Table? I’ve got you covered!
Click the graphic for curated lists of books I recommend while supporting independent bookstores (and me) with your purchase!
*Note: The bookshop.org links are Joy’s affiliate links, which means she’ll receive a small percentage at no extra cost to you. Thank you!
MEET THE FEATURED AUTHORS
LAM SUMMER READING CHALLENGE KICKOFF – JUNE 1, 7 P.M. (CDT)
Joy E. Rancatore
June 22-28
Joy is an award-winning, multi-genre Indie Author focused on writing the soul with heart through Southern fiction with Christian roots, nonfiction writings and fantasy stories, while providing experiences that bring readers and authors together to #ShareTheRead.
She is the author of six currently published books, with many more on the way, and an ever-growing number of short stories.
Animal Vignettes: True Stories of Friendship will be her first published book of narrative nonfiction.
Julie Mayerson Brown
July 13-19
Julie is a California girl, originally from the San Fernando Valley. She lives in Palos Verdes (a suburb of Los Angeles) where she and her husband raised two sons, rescued many dogs, hosted countless backyard BBQs, and chased away hundreds of wild peacocks.
When not writing, Julie is scrambling around the house—picking up after her dogs, gardening with little success, and giving her now adult sons as much advice as they’ll tolerate. She’s also an excellent cook (at least she thinks so), a consumer of too much coffee, and a tireless bargain shopper. Her favorite store is TJMaxx.
One Last Dance is the last book in her Clearwater Series.
Carole Lehr Johnson
July 20-26
A true Anglophile, Carole loves all things British, thus her branding, Tea Time for the Heart, revolves around U.K.-based fiction for lovers of tea and scones, castles and cottages, and more. Her love of the U.K. has taken her across the pond many times to explore its gorgeous landscapes and architecture as she conducts research for her novels.
Other than writing, she enjoys involvement with church ministries, photography, cooking, gardening, genealogy, travel, and a spot of tea.
Woven in the Mist is her latest dual timeline/split time novel set in the Scottish highlands.
MEET THE AUTHORS OF THE ROUND TABLE
MID-CHALLENGE BOOST
JULY 10, 7 P.M. (CDT)
WINE-DOWN & WINNERS TOAST
JULY 27, 7 P.M. (CDT)
EVENTS & REPLAYS
Each event begins at 7:00 PM (CDT) on Zoom. Click the EVENT tab to go to the Zoom room. Password is: ReadOn (case sensitive). Click the VIDEO icons to watch the replays on YouTube.
REPLAY: LAM Summer Reading Kickoff
LAM Book Club begins at 8:00 PM (CDT) on Zoom. Click the EVENT tab to go to the Zoom room. Password is: LoveBooks (case sensitive).
LAM SUMMER READING ARCHIVES
Search Joy’s Facebook page for posts from the 2018, 2019 and 2020 Summer Reading Challenges.
WANT TO #ShareTheRead YEAR-ROUND?
#ShareTheRead Continues After Summer!
Join Joy year-round for bookish fun, such as:
- Book Read-Alongs
- Fireside Tales
- Authors of the Round Table Events
- 12 Days of Reading Challenge
- 12 Months of Reading Challenge
- LAM Book Club
- And More!
