Sacramento Public Library discussion

Summer Reading is going strong! Don't forget, everyone from pre-readers to adults can participate. Be sure to stop by your local Sacramento Public Library branch for more information, or check out www.saclibrary.org.

Let us know what titles you are enjoying this month by posting in the comments below and help someone else find their next great read!

I'm now reading Dragonflight, you'd think is fantasy by the cover but is more sci-fi in my opinion.

I'm also reading Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's.

Slowly making my way through 'A Game of Thrones' on my Kindle. As well as my vast selection of YA fiction. It's Love Letters to the Dead right now, to be followed by Days of Blood & Starlight :)

I am reading a preview copy of Dollbaby. So far it seems to be about a young lady who is dropped off by her flighty mother at her grandmother's house after her dad passes away. I just started, but it seems interesting.

Plugging away with The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffrey Deaver. It's a good story, I just haven't had the time to sit down and read. Am planning on finishing it this week before I leave for the long weekend. I have other books I want to take with me.

Really enjoying Maledicte. It's a fascinating view of paganism in a time when all the gods are believed to be dead, set in a world reminiscent of Renaissance Italy. The language is gorgeous, and the narrative just edgy enough to keep you turning pages well past bedtime.

Finishing up "Something Red," by Douglas Nicholas and starting on Larry Niven's classic "Ringworld" for our book club. In audio, I just completed "Magic Bites" by Ilona Andrews and am debating what to start next--possibly "The Silkworm" by Robert Galbraith.

Over the long weekend I just started To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Grigori Rasputin. Interesting, so far, but the writer assumes the reader already knows who he is and what he did. This is not a book to start with if you don't already have some knowledge of the man and his significance.

Tabitha (Pabkins) wrote: "@John - I read Something Red back when it first came out - what did you think of it?

I've been meaning to get to Ringworld and those Ilona Andrews books.

I'm going to read Half a King by Joe Aber..."

I tried reading it several months ago but got bogged down in some of the descriptive passages and stopped about 100 pages in. Recently I gave it another go and made it all the way through. It does start out slowly, but around the halfway point the action ratchets up and one does not want to put the book down until the end.

Every so often my reading interest takes a sharp detour and I pick up a title that's well outside of what I usually read. It was that way with "Gone Girl" some time ago, and now it's "The Silkworm," by Robert Galbraith. I'm listening to it on my iPod. The story is mesmerizing if not downright addictive, and the narrator, Robert Glenister, is perfect for the story. I'm only halfway finished with it and I've already put it on the top of my recommended reading list (along with "Gone Girl.")

despite what my "currently reading" bookshelf says, I read one book at a time. but I have a few books that I had to return before I finished or whatever that are sitting on that shelf. I also have a training book that although I have read the important parts, I still need to finish reading through. so it sits on that shelf too.

I'm reading so many things at the moment. I'm currently listening to Under the Never Sky, reading Fire & Flood on my Kindle, and will be starting the hard copy of Life As We Knew It this evening. I'm planning on reading Far From You, In the After, Days of Blood & Starlight, Brazen, and Since You've Been Gone in the next few weeks. If you couldn't tell, I'm big into the young adult genre.

Tabitha (Pabkins) wrote: "@Jacqueline - I read Fire & Flood and really enjoyed it. I'm also a huge YA fan. I'd say at least half of what I read is YA. Though this month I've been on a bit of an adult fantasy kick.

I reall..."

@ Tabitha - I haven't read Throne of Glass but have heard really good things. I just finished Daughter of Smoke and Bone and highly recommend it. I'm going to be starting the next book in the series, Days of Blood & Starlight soon and can't wait!

I finished Clash of Kings about a week ago and am now trying to finish Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan.

Yes it is #10. I am also not impressed with it myself, there is so little action in it. I tried a couple months ago and couldn't get through the near 100 page prologue. I want to see how the series ends though... even with the new author....since I have put so much time into the series.

I also typically read several books at a time in various formats. This month I am reading Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford via audiobook (it's good and I'm about halfway done; The Guestbook by Holly Martin via my Nook (a light, fun read that I'm nearly finished with); Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber (paperback and about half-way through); and Who Stole Halloween? by Martha Freeman (paperback - that I read with my kids at night).

I'm a one book at a time reader, though sometimes I have one book going at work (usually a kids or teen book) and another at home. Otherwise there is just not enough time in the day to read everything!

I didn't do a lot of reading while I was traveling these past few weeks, but I did listen to Simon Vance read me Master & Commander by Patrick O'Brian which I greatly enjoyed. A historical nautical adventure is not what I'd usually read, but this was an influential book and the audio version came highly recommended. I'd highly recommend it myself. Simon Vance does an excellent job (as usual) narrating this classic tale of adventure, friendship and plenty of naval battles.

Tabitha (Pabkins) wrote: "@Chelsea I listened to the audio of Seraphina last year I think? I absolutely adored it. I look forward to the next one. I always bed more books with dragons in my life.

I just finished HOUNDED by..."

Like Chelsea, I usually have two or three books going at the same time, in different formats. I've got "The Silkworm," in audio, "Ringworld," in print for our book club, and am about to start "Blood Red," by Mercedes Lackey on my iPad. The downside to this method is that it often takes a couple weeks to finish reading one book.

I have only read one book by Lackey and it was only a book she co-wrote.

I'm reading 'Happiness is a Serious Problem' by Dennis Prager

So I am reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and I am not going to lie, it's a challenge. If I hadn't been reading it for book group I might have put it down within the first 50 pages and searched out something easier. But I am glad I didn't because despite the complexity and labyrinthine nature of Tudor politics (as well as a frightening number of characters with the same first names) Thomas Cromwell is slowly but surely capturing my attention as a character. I'm also learning a lot--like about the sweating sickness plague which got left out of my history lessons. There's still a long way to go so who knows what else I will learn!

I just finished Deborah Harkness's The Book of Life, a wonderful end to her All Souls Trilogy, and am reading Jean Zimmerman's Savage Girl, a fascinating story set in Nevada and Manhattan in 1875. I love good historical fiction and this is a good one!