Sacramento Public Library discussion

What books are you starting off the new year with? Got any reading goals? Share below and inspire your fellow readers!

My reading goal is to finish 50 books by the end of this year. I am currently reading the Infernal Devices trilogy by Cassandra Clare.

This month I'm reading City of Bones for our reading challenge. I'm hoping to read a bit broader this year, I'm a very niched reader mostly in fantasy. Every year I tell myself I'll broaden things a bit then I find a new series and get hooked on it, or a new book of a loved series comes out and pulls me back in! We'll see how it goes this time though, 3rd time's a charm?

I'm trying out all different formats this year. I have...
- Yes Please in audiobook
- Game in e-audiobook
- Winter in print

My goal is to read 36 books this year :) Happy reading everyone!

My book goal for 2016 is 200. I read slightly over that in 2015 but I don't want to push it.

I've started off 2016 with non-fiction reading. I'm currently listening to another Sarah Vowell book, this time Unfamiliar Fishes, a history of Hawaii. She is delightfully snarky and I am sad her books are so short!

I also recently read The Monopolists: obsession, fury, and the scandal behind the world's favorite board game by Mary Pilon. I picked it up after seeing it on a couple of best of the year non-fiction lists. I'm glad I did. I learned so many interesting things including the fact that it started as an anti-capitalist game and that Parker Brothers pretty much stole the rights to it. It's a very interesting read, a must for fans of social history, board games as well as non-fiction lovers.

As for my 2016 reading goals, I'm very much determined to move out of my reading comfort zone. While I did venture out of it in 2015, I definitely could have done better. My goal is to have a at least a quarter of my reading be "uncomfortable".

I'm reading Night Shift , so far so good. I'm down to the last story.

Carolyn F. wrote: "My book goal for 2016 is 200. I read slightly over that in 2015 but I don't want to push it."

Unfortunately, I started keeping track of my books in 2015 but I lost track sometime in March! School keeps me so busy that I am lucky to finish two books a month! But my goal is also 200 books for 2016 and I have already finished 5, so I think I am finally on track!
Like Brendle, I am still trying to read outside my comfort zone. I did find some historical fiction on Amazon including "The Conqueror's Wife" which is actually about Alexander the Great and not William the Conqueror. I also read "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies" last year for class. It is an excellent book on the immigrant crisis in the US. Of course, I am also reading favorite authors such as J.D. Robb, Cleo Coyle, Catherine Coulter, and James Patterson. They are all good reads when the mind needs to unwind.

My reading has slowed down a bit in the last few months, but now that I've settled into my new job (and new house), I'm feeling back on track. I'm currently in the middle of Smoke by Dan Vyleta (galley) and The Census-Taker by China Mieville (also a galley). I'm determined this will be the year I finally read Madame Bovary, but I'm looking forward to re-reading some of my books, now that I have unpacked them and put them away!

my goal is 150 but last year I know that I had a lot of DNF . I am going to school and working part time so my reading has slowed down too. I'm reading Dreaming Death and loving it so far . It did remind me of another book . I also just finished When we Collided and loved it . I also need to donate books or read the books that I haven't gotten to.

I can't remember what my goal is for 2016 but chances are good I will surpass it. I read on the train and at lunch so cruise through books at a steady pace.
I just finished the soon-to-be-released Lisa Gardner book, Find Her. I am enjoying her DD Warrens series. Now I am reading The Restaurant Critic's Wife. The paranoia of the critic husband is annoying me. I hope some moderation is injected soon.

I'm currently reading The Paris Wife. I don't know much about Ernest Hemingway and his life and it's an interesting POV from his first wife if she were to have written it.

Katie wrote: "I'm trying out all different formats this year. I have...
- Yes Please in audiobook
- Game in e-audiobook
- Winter in print

My goal is to read 36 bo..."

I loved Yes Please! I loved it more than Bossypants.

My January reading started off original, but for some reason I've started doing a lot of re-reading.

I've been working my way through the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher for the second time. I think this was sparked by reading his latest work of fantasy a few months ago, The Aeronaut's Windlass. It's just as enjoyable the second time around, though a few of the weaknesses are showing through.

I've also been re-reading the Charlie Fox series by Zoe Sharp. This was brought on by the publication of Riot Act the second book in the series, which was just published in the US for the first time. There is still one book missing from the series in the US, Roadkill which I finally broke down and ordered online.

Currently holding my bookmark is a children's supernatural horror book, The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud. I only read it during the day because it's very creepy!

I set a goal of 50 books for myself this year, and I am currently on my 5th book. It's a big 'un, though: Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals. It's outstanding so far...

I'm presently reading "Luna: New Moon," by veteran SF author Ian McDonald. Lots of positive reviews. In audio format, I've got "High Moor," by Graeme Reynolds. I've recently finished "Gateway," by Frederik Pohl, for our book club, and the audiobooks "The Devotion of Suspect X," by Keigo Higashino and "Winter," by Marissa Meyer.

I’ve worked and worked at reading The Great Swindle by Pierre Lamaitre but haven’t had any luck staying with it. That bothers me because it is a good book, just not a good book for me. An excellent read for someone, it was translated from French by Frank Wynne.
To reach out of my comfort zone I’m going with children’s books. I can’t seem to get enough children’s picture books lately. I’ve been ordering and reading Caldecott winners and am just amazed at the lovely artwork and storylines in the books. In the meantime I’m also reading The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn, a remarkable book in its queasy, scary way. Very short and easy to read, it captures the relationship between a woman and evil. You’ll love the beginning, I had to read it twice to believe I had read it. I’m also finally going back to One Hundred Years of Solitude. I spent a lot of time listening and watching a lecture series from the Great Courses series “The Art of Storytelling: from Parents to Professionals” with Dr. Hannah B. Harvey. It’s a great listen and watch program about, what else, stories!

Teresa wrote: "I’ve worked and worked at reading The Great Swindle by Pierre Lamaitre but haven’t had any luck staying with it. That bothers me because it is a good book, just not a good book for me. An excellent..."

I love Lemaitre's Irene series but this sounds like a doozy of a book! 600 pages! That can get brain numbing all on its own!