What Are You Reading: November 2015

[Sacramento Public Library]

November November...what are you reading this November? Share below and help someone else find their next great read!

[Susan]

Playing with Fire by Tess Gerritson. She writes the Rizzolli and Isles series but this one is a stand alone. Very interesting!

[David]

Just finishing up Priestess of the White and so far it's pretty decent. Lots of world building so I'm hoping once I get the second book there will be a little less world building and a little more story.

[Robin]

I'm just starting the sword of summer the new Rick Riordan book based around Norse myths instead of Greco/Roman ones. I also have to hurry up and read Aeronuat's Windlass the new Jim Butcher fantasy.

[Katie]

I finished reading all of the PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives books, and I'm anxious to get started on Marie Lu's newest novel The Rose Society. I'm also re-reading Grasshopper Jungle for the alt+library book club.

[Kristi]

I am reading The Circle by Dave Eggers and listening to Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. Both are really good so far!

[Francie]

I'm reading The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go and loving it!

[Brendle]

My first book of November was Dead Wake by Erik Larson and it was fantastic. I learned so much about the sinking of the Lusitania and probably more than I ever wanted to know about what actually happens when a ship goes down. I would highly recommend this to anyone who loves history or just a good story well told. It kept me riveted to the page even when I knew the ending, as it were.

Currently holding my bookmark is The Legend of Lyon Redmond by Julie Anne Long. It's the conclusion to her Pennyroyal Green series, a must read for any fan of historical romance. I've been waiting for this one for a long time and so far it's all that I hoped it would be!

[Susan]

I am reading The Three-Year Swim Club right now about the hawaiian swimmers in the 1940 Olympics. Very interesting! Love combining history and sports!

[John]

I'm about one-third of the way into Robert Galbraith's (aka J. K. Rowling) newest Cormoran Strike novel, "Career of Evil." I'm listening to the audio version--and trying to cope with Audible's seriously trouble-plagued app.

Kim Stanley Robinson's "Galileo's Dream" is at the top of my reading list.

[Susan]

The Three-Year Swim Club was an excellent book! It has swimming, history, and Hawaii in it. I am thinking about buying it for my dad for Christmas.

Now I am reading The Palest Ink which is centered on some young people during Mao's reign. While it is fiction, I know that a lot of what is used in the book really happened. Guess I am on a history kick?

[Jackie]

I'm reading Murder in the Marais by Cara Black. It's the first in a series of books about private investigator Aimee Leduc set in Paris in the 90's. I've been wanting to start this series for a while!

[Julie]

I just finished reading Symtons of being Human..I highly recommend this gender fluid book. I loved it

I finished Take a fall....meh and it was an okay mystery.

[Brendle]

I'm finishing up the Ancillary trilogy by Ann Leckie, reading the final volume, Ancillary Mercy. This series has garnered a lot of attention for it's use of language and gender, but this final volume is really showing off what a fascinating study of artificial intelligence it is as well.

At the same time I'm listening to Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay. I'm not sure about the reader, but the essays themselves are fantastic.

[Cat]

I just finished Iron Trial by Holly Black - book one of the Magisterium series. Juvenile, Fantasy, Harry Potter read-alike, but turned on its ear. I enjoyed it very much. Now I'm listening to Short Straw by Stuart Woods, a mystery set in Santa Fe, where I'm headed for vacation.

Do any of you like to read fiction set in the town you're visiting? I've found it really enjoyable. I'll sometimes seek out landmarks that are mentioned in the books, note the streets, etc.

[Katie]

I highly recommend The Marvels by Brian Selznick...It might be my favorite of all his books! And I'm stepping out of my comfort zone and reading the graphic novel Roller Girl. It's pretty good so far!

[Teresa]

Just finished listening to All the Light We Cannot See. Lovely book. I didn't especially like the narrator but he allowed the book to flow which it did even though it flipped back and forth between two story lines. A must read if you're interested in WW 2 or any war for that matter. I'm now starting with Keep Calm by Rainbow Rowell which is a totally different feel! Harry Potter here I come! (You'll get that if you read the book!)

[Teresa]

Cat wrote: "I just finished Iron Trial by Holly Black - book one of the Magisterium series. Juvenile, Fantasy, Harry Potter read-alike, but turned on its ear. I enjoyed it very much. Now I'm listening to Short..."

I've gone to places where a book was set just because of the book.

[Teresa]

Brendle wrote: "I'm finishing up the Ancillary trilogy by Ann Leckie, reading the final volume, Ancillary Mercy. This series has garnered a lot of attention for it's use of language and gender, but this final volu..."

I had a hard time with Ancillary Justice. I'm thinking of getting the book from the library and reading it rather than listening to it.