Albany Public Library discussion

Welcome to Week 1 of the Summer Reading Challenge!

Please post your preferred username and name if you would like to participate here on Goodreads this summer!

This week's recommended reading list is full of great fantasy reads to help you escape this summer!

A ​Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Circe by Madeline Miller
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Klara and the Sun by Kazou Ishiguro
Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu
Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan

I am personally looking forward to giving The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue a try this summer!

Kate

EDIT: I decided to change my book. I will be reading The Quiet Girl by S. F. Kosa instead of reading The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern.

Hello! I want to participate this year! Valerie, ValTheRizzle.

Hello, I plan to participate this year. My preferred name is Eva (ED Username).

I'd like to participate!
Paige, pabarnum.
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Hi I’d like to participate again.

Hi. I'd also like to participate again.

Hi, I want to participate! Can my username just be Abi?And oooh, my fave genre 😊

Abi wrote: "Hi, I want to participate! Can my username just be Abi?And oooh, my fave genre 😊"

Yes, I will put Abi down as your username!

So many great choices! I’ll start off with The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

my user name is oner
Joel Margolis

I want to participate. My user name is cathyp83

I’d love to participate : username: kairakaira name: kaira!

I’d like to participate too! I think I was signed up at the branch when I registered my son, but I’ll track on Goodreads :)

Christine

I would like to participate - Susan D'Entremont

BTW - I listened to Ninth House, and it definitely kept my attention even though it is not my usual genre. If you have any connection to Yale, you should read/listen to it! I know several people who worked at Beineke Library, and that was the setting for several creepy things in this book.

Christine wrote: "I’d like to participate too! I think I was signed up at the branch when I registered my son, but I’ll track on Goodreads :)

Christine"

Hi Christine. Happy to have you here on Goodreads!

Everyone who has posted so far is registered!

I would like to participate. I’m pretty sure my username is lozie20, my name is Loretta. Thank you for making it easy to sign via goodreads.

If you like audiobooks, the house of cerulean sea is a great one to listen to!

I would like to participate! I just started Shadow and Bone!

Yes, I would like to take part in the APL Adult Summer Reading Challenge. I am Paul Rees-Rohrbacher and username Paul R. Thank you for continuing this tradition.

I'm in! Username Mirkat, please.

Hi! I’m in for summer reading!

Molly

I’d like to join! My username can just be Jane.

I’d like to participate with username kellyfe

I am excited to participate again...user name is Rich Pearson-Strain

Kate wrote: "Welcome to Week 1 of the Summer Reading Challenge!

Please post your preferred username and name if you would like to participate here on Goodreads this summer!

This week's recommended reading lis..."

I'd like to participate, please! - Katy (preferred username), Kathryn Carroll

Excited for another reading challenge. I’m Jennifer, username Jaybee. I have a big stack of books on to be read pile, but have been in a terrible reading slump. I’m currently chipping away at The Great Believers for my book club.

Hello APL and fellow readers! I love this first week's reading inspiration... seconding Klara and the Sun, Piranesi, Black Sun, and Monstress, all of which I read over the past year.

Just finished First, Become Ashes, which is more contemporary fantasy/soft sci-fi/??genre-agnostic??

Diana wrote: "Hello APL and fellow readers! I love this first week's reading inspiration... seconding Klara and the Sun, Piranesi, Black Sun, and Monstress, all of which I read over the past year.

Just finished..."

Hi @Diana. You are signed up! Congrats on finishing your first summer reading book:)

Everyone who has posted so far is registered. We are off to great start!

Just finished Grown! Not fantasy, but I've got some fantasy up next on the list :)

Abi wrote: "Just finished Grown! Not fantasy, but I've got some fantasy up next on the list :)"

@ Abi How was Grown? Would it be a good title for a book discussion?

@ Kate YES!! It was excellent

This week I finished:
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callendar
Unf*ck Your Brain by Faith Harper (I hated this, that doesn't happen often)

I'm still working on this week's selection, "The Starless Sea" (which I am loving) but in the meantime, I've finished "Olympus, Texas" by Stacey Swann, "Modern Baptists" by James Wilcox and "American Spy" by Lauren Wilkinson

@ Valerie and @ Diane Brown I have added your books:)

Hi! I'm interested in participating. Can I be signed up with the username milannar? I just finished "The Maidens" by Alex Michaelides and "The Hour of the Witch" by Chris Bohjalian!

@Milanna you are all set! I have added your books

Valerie wrote: "This week I finished:
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callendar
Unf*ck Your Brain by Faith Harper (I hated this, that doesn't happen often)" Oh, I heard the author of Olympus, Texas speak at an event. It sounded interesting. How did you like it?

We put any books we read this week here, even if they are not Sci/Fi fantasy, right? I just read Love Lettering, which is somewhat of a romance and also an ode to calligraphy. A good beach read.

I liked Olympus Texas when I started it, but it lost steam toward the middle and I didn't love the ending. I didn't hate it, but it was just meh for me.

Not from the list, but I read The Great Believers and Firekeeper’s Daughter this week. Both were good, but Firekeeper’s Daughter blew me away.

Susan wrote: "We put any books we read this week here, even if they are not Sci/Fi fantasy, right? I just read Love Lettering, which is somewhat of a romance and also an ode to calligraphy. A goo..." Thanks! It sounded like an interesting premise, but sounds like something OK to read if nothing else is available.

Finished Women Talking today - an unusual and heavy book, although short.

I finished two books this week with both SciFi/Fantasy. Tin Man was the first. I also finished Supercarrier to start a series. Thanks for the start.

This is Jody and I am so happy to be doing this SRC with you again. I’m reading the House on the Cerulean Sea and loving it!

Just finished Last Night at the Telegraph Club, which would ALSO be a great YA book club pick, Kate! 😊

Another to add to my list: Stacey Abrams’ While Justice Sleeps. What a fun read this one is!