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Join the Adult Summer Reading Club at the Port Moody Public Library!
Travel the path of the “Book of Life” and make important life and reading choices as you move from childhood to the teenage years; from working life to a happy retirement. “Book of Life” is like the classic boardgame Life, but with a book-themed twist!
How to join the Adult Summer Reading Club
Get your Book of Life game board and instructions
- Stop by the Library during opening hours to get your game board
- Print your own
- Game board [PDF]
- Instruction sheet [PDF]
- Play on screen using the PDF as your game board.
How to play the Book of Life
- Start in the childhood stage in the bottom left corner of the game board.
- Whenever you encounter an orange tile, you decide which path to take. Pick any blue tile on your chosen path and read a book for that category.
- When you are on a yellow path, pick any yellow tile or the pink question mark tile and read a book for that category.
- A list of question mark events is available below and on the instruction sheet.
- We have put together booklists to help you find books that fit the categories you have chosen.
How to enter the Summer Reading Club prize draw
- Play the “Book of Life” game all summer long. No minimum or maximum number of completed books required.
- Fill out your prize draw ballot on the instruction sheet and return it to the Library between August 22 - September 6 to enter our prize draw for $100 gift card.
- You can drop off your ballot in person or email a photo of your ballot to askthelibrary@portmoody.ca.
Childhood: Choice #1
Grow up fast (left turn)
- Adult book with a child narrator
- A book published in the decade you were born
- Fascinated with words: great book titles
Stay a child (right turn)
- Re-read a childhood favorite
- Book with anthropomorphic animals
- Book about a childhood passion
- Curious about everything: Read a new-to-you author
Young adult
- Coming of age story
- Rebellious phase: read a banned book
- Cosplay time!: read a graphic novel
- Read a book in the Teen collection
- So many feelings: poetry or novel in verse
- #BFF: books about friendship
- You graduated: read whatever you want!
After high school: Choice #2
College (left turn)
Travel (right turn)
- Travelogue or a book about a road trip
- Book set in a country you want to visit
- Waiting for your flight: read a short story
Adulthood (part 1)
- Learn to feed yourself: read a cookbook
- Movie night: book adapted into a movie/TV
- Discover a family secret
Get a job: Choice #3
A Traditional job (left turn)
- Book set in a office
- Work in the medical profession
- Book with a family business
- Work in retail
- Be a writer
- Work in the legal profession
An unusual job (right turn)
- Work in space
- Be an amateur sleuth
- Work in the movie industry
- Stumble into a strange job
- Travel back in time
- Lead a life of crime
Adulthood (part 2)
- Pay day: read whatever you want!
- Go to a game: book about sports
- Income tax season: book with a number in title
- Employee of the month: read an award winner
- Love is in the air: story about relationships
- Pay day: read whatever you want!
- Go to a concert: book about music
Relationship: Choice #4
Start a family (left turn)
Stay single (right turn)
Adulthood (part 3)
- Take a trip to Vegas: read something wild
- Pay day: read whatever you want!
- Breaking news: book on current events or politics
Where to live: Choice #5
Stay in Canada (left turn)
Move to a new country (right turn)
- Immigrant experience: books about living in a new country
- Housewarming: books about moving to a new house
- Homecoming: coming back home to visit
Near Retirement
- Visit an art gallery: books with great covers
- Pay day: read whatever you want
- Go on vacation: books set in a country you've never been
- Read a memoir
- Ponder the meaning of life: books with big ideas
- Read a multigenerational story
- Happy retirement: books with retiring or retired protagonists
Question Mark Events
- Plan a heist.
- Aliens make first contact.
- You discovered a portal to another world.
- Go on a spy mission.
- Vacation did not turn out the way you expected.
- It’s Halloween: Read a scary book.
- You’ve been implicated in a crime you didn’t commit!
- You’ve won the lottery!
- You found a secret treasure map. Go on an adventure.
- You discovered that there are gods living among us.
Need more reading suggestions?
Fill out our personalized reading suggestion form and we will send you a list of books based on your reading preferences.