Albany Public Library discussion

Good morning everyone, and welcome to week 6 of the Summer Reading Challenge! Make sure to continue to comment all of the books that you have finished reading this week!

Here's a list of suggested reading to go along with our Suspense theme!

Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay
Who is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Chill by Scott Carson
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
From Hell by Alan Moore

Happy reading!

Good morning. I have finished two more books in July. Wild Escape: The Prison Break From Dannemora and The Manhunt That Captured America, by Chelsia Rose Marcius and The North Face of the Heart by Delores Redondo. I enjoyed them both. 3 stars for the first, 4 stars for the latter. That puts me at 6 books completed.

Last week I finished You People and The Right Swipe. You People was beautiful and heartbreaking, and The Right Swipe was a perfect "beach read" for a day on the boat.

Good day, my fellow reading community. I am here to announce that I have completed my reading of Charles Bukowski's Factotum. Thanks.

I've recorded all of the completed books above! Great job, everyone!

@Vickie, yes you are at 6 books read! Almost to our 10 book challenge!

@Kristopher, you have completed our 10 book challenge! Please stop by your local APL branch to pick up your prize APL tote bag!

Yay! Now I'll have something cooler than my Market 32 bag to walk my books back to the library with!

Finished “The Newcomer” and starting “Under A Dancing Star@ by Laura Wood. My summer stack keeps growing and I can’t keep up.

I have finished 4 books since the last time:

The Thursday Murder Club:
The writing style was not for me but the setting gave me The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old vibes.

Little Fires Everywhere:
Finally hopped on the bandwagon and I'm mad at myself for waiting this long.

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria:
Super pver-hyped in my opinion. I get it, it was sad. But it was not as depressing as everyone made it seem. I wonder if, after more than a decade, the author did the interviews again, would people change their opinion on the past? Are things better now?

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books:
Just to keep in touch with my roots 😔✌️

I've recorded all the completed books above!

After reading excerpts over the years, I finally read A People's History of the United States from cover to cover - all 700 pages of it. I now understand why we were never assigned the entire book in school.

Marked off your book! Great job!

Finished Tales From the Hinterland this morning.

This week I finally read Die, Vol. 2: Split the Party, a year or so after reading the first volume! A very cool comic book series.

I have logged all the books above. Great job!

Thanks for the book suggestions. I just finished A Good Day for Chardonnay.

I have read Claw enforcement and Undercover Kitty by Sofie Ryan. Great series if you are into Cozy Mysteries.

Just finished Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I loved it!

I finished two books: One Last Stop by Casey McQuisto and The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa. It’s a romance novel summer 😂💋

I just finished Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng and Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I just finished Clean Getaway by Nic Stone, which I read with my son for the library’s crafty readers book club. I don’t remember middle grade and YA books being as good when I was a kid!

I finished one book this week. Catalyst. It was a good medical suspense romance. The emphasis was on those three items in that order. The locale is a big Pittsburgh medical center. It is the second part of a good series.

I have logged all the book up to this point. Great job everyone!

Congrats Jaybee and Paul you have completed the Summer Reading Challenge!

Last week I finished two of the suggested books for the Suspense is Killing Me theme. I had never heard of either of them and I really liked them both.

The Chill by Scott Carson
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

That's great Diane. I have added your books.

Finished Every Last Fear. Thanks for the suggestion. It was a good lazy weekend read.

Paul wrote: "I finished one book this week. Catalyst. It was a good medical suspense romance. The emphasis was on those three items in that order. The locale is a big Pittsburgh medical center. ..."

Thanks for the suggestion. This sounds like a good series to add to my "to-read" list.

I've added your book above!

For week 6 I read “The City We Became” by N.K. Jemisin. First in a trilogy, it had a slower start than some of her other novels, but definitely setting things up for a wild ride.

@Rich, I added your completed book! Great job!

I finished reading The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success which is a narrative/spiritual journey/historical fiction. The story encouraged me to delve into deeper aspects of history including learning about Joshua Chamberlain of Maine, a former school teacher, who turned the tide of the Civil War. Andrews' narrative also aroused my curiosity of the engineering feats of the Cuencan temples of South America, and the builders of Baalbek in Lebanon that mystify the engineers of this time period. So all in all it was a fun read.

I finished the audiobook, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark. I wanted to read it since Rebecca Roanhoarse, author of Black Sun, wrote one of the sections on Darth Maul. It's an anthology of stories from characters in the Star Wars Universe. I was so impressed with this audiobook. The sound effects make the experience completely immersive and the voice talent sound like the actors who actually played the roles in the movies. This was a lot of fun to experience.