Hi JB, Here is our TPL Reading Challenge 2020: A Year in Review blog post: https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/bookbuzz/2021/01/2020-tpl-reading-challenge-a-year-in-review.html I will pass on your feedback about our contest entry process to the TPL Reading Challenge team.

Hi Ann, We do not know how many people participated overall. But we did create a TPL Reading Challenge 2020: A Year in Review blog post, which has some information about our participants and the books they read. https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/bookbuzz/2021/01/2020-tpl-reading-challenge-a-year-in-review.html

Hi JB. Thanks for your comment. We haven’t had the opportunity to complete the 2020 prize draw yet and contact winners. We hope to do that next week. We will put up a post on our Facebook Group once that has been completed. For privacy reasons, we won’t be able to share their names, but they can certainly do so if they’re interested! We’re also working on getting together a recap of the 2020 Challenge which we’ll be sharing late this month or in early February. Hope this helps!

Very jealous that you've been able to visit The Edward Gorey House! Since researching our post and exhibit, a visit to Massachusetts and The Edward Gorey House is at the top of my post-pandemic travel list.

Loved the painting in this exhibit. As an East Ender, Four Seasons Cleaners is a sentimental favourite.

For England it would have been "the lifetime of the author plus 7 years, or for 42 years from first publication" in 1897. There is actually some interesting information about Dracula's US copyright status. A lot of sources say Bram Stoker didn't complete the US copyright paperwork in time and the book was in the public domain in the US. But, there is a blog post from a Library of Congress librarian, who found records suggesting Stoker did copyright it in time: https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/02/copyright-and-dracula/

Hi Mac, Glad you enjoyed the blog post! The use of long s definitely slowed down my reading a couple time as I was researching this post. Luckily for modern readers, Cobwebs to Catch Flies was her most popular book and there are several later editions which use the more easily readable "short" s. We have an edition from the 1870s, which might make easier reading for modern children and adults: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-37131009530916D&R=DC-37131009530916D

Very interesting to see the panel format developing in the book you linked!

We have a couple French editions of Charles Perrault's stories digitized! The oldest is this 1742 collection of his stories: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-37131032418923D&R=DC-37131032418923D Here are some more French language collections: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-37131062547609D&R=DC-37131062547609D https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-37131032412504D&R=DC-37131032412504D https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-37131062559588D&R=DC-37131062559588D

The outer senshi are part of the game! I have to admit, it is the one that appeals to me most as well.