Shreve Memorial Library discussion

Hello fellow Shreveporters -

We are looking to reboot this group after some silence. In the New Year, I wondered if anyone has any reading goals for 2016. Last year, I met my Goodreads goal of 50 books, so I upped my number to 60. Hopefully I can meet the challenge.

On the SML website, we've started a 2016 Reading Challenge (http://www.shreve-lib.org/readingchal...). Each month we'll post a theme and a few suggested reads. To participate in the challenge, you can read a book in line with the theme (it doesn't have to be one of the suggested reads). Then, share with us what you read using #SMLSuperReads on Facebook and Twitter!

The theme for January is health, wellness, and improvement. This month, borrow the inspirational book you've wanted to read, the go-green cookbook focusing on fruits and veggies, or just a book that lets you reflect on how to improve yourself.

What are your goals for reading in the New Year? Let us know here!

One of my favorite "healthy" cookbooks is Appetite for Reduction by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. The unfried refried bean recipe is a personal favorite. The book even has nutritional information included on each recipe. Highly recommended for those looking to up their veggie intake.

Thanks for sharing! Also, an appropriate Guns N' Roses pun in the title (with the impending reunion and all). I'll have to check it out -- I love cookbooks and good healthy cookbooks definitely help you to cook better food for yourself. :)

100 books!

100 books in 2016? Wow, that's an ambitious goal! Let us know how you do! :)

Will do!

What has everyone read so far this year? My reading has been pretty eclectic. So far I've read (or am currently reading) NOS4A2 by Joe Hill, The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, a few children's award-winning picture books, a boring YA novel, Saga by Brian Vaughn and Fiona Staples, and On the Move by Oliver Sacks.

I'm reading unqualified by pat schatzline and I just finished the institute. good book.... intrigued to read the second

I just finished reading "The High Mountains of Portugal" by Yann Martel. I thought it was very good magical realism. I just started some non-fiction, Stacy Schiff's "The Witches: Salem." I read her book about Cleopatra a few years ago and loved it, and it won the Pulitzer that year, so I'm hoping this one is just as good.

Cool! I must be on a graphic novel kick because now I started into "Y: The Last Man." I finished the first two volumes this week. Interesting to hear what everybody else is reading. Gives me some new titles to explore!

I'm reading To Kill A Mockingbird right now.

Caleb, If you like Saga and Y: The Last Man, give Ex Machina a try as well. It's darker than Vaughan's other works, but quite good.

I just finished Exploding the Phone and am in the middle of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me.

Yes, I was working my way through some of Brian Vaughn's comics, so I was planning on Ex Machina next. They are available through Hoopla (an awesome digital service available from the library).

I read "Between the World and Me" over the summer. It was a very moving book.

Jason wrote: "I'm reading To Kill A Mockingbird right now."

That seems like an appropriate choice following Harper Lee's passing. Have you read it before? Or are you revisiting the book?

Yes. I didn't appreciate the book in high school so now I wanted to read it as an adult. With so many race issues facing our society today; it is very interesting. Harper Lees writing is amazing!

Anybody read "You're never weird on the interenet(almost)" by Felicia Day? Fantastic read. Made you feel like she was sitting with you talking to you. If your geeky At all I Highly suggest it... If your not bit someone you love is read it so you understand them better!

Celeste wrote: "Anybody read "You're never weird on the interenet(almost)" by Felicia Day? Fantastic read. Made you feel like she was sitting with you talking to you. If your geeky At all I Highly suggest it... If..." I haven't read it...but we do have it at the library if anyone is interested!

Has anyone read any Rainbow Rowell books?

Jason wrote: "Has anyone read any Rainbow Rowell books?"
I read "Eleanor and Park," and I enjoyed that. YA is not usually my cup of tea, but it was a good love story with an '80s nostalgia to it. I started to read her new book ("Carry On"), but I knew right away it probably wasn't for me.