What are you reading?

What we're reading at the Cameron Park Library...

2008-04-08T16:41:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, the staff at the Cameron Park Library loves to ask each other "What are you reading now?" here's a sampling of our current literary adventures:

Suzanne - The Secret Pearl by Mary Balogh - hot, sexy - something to keep you warm on a cold winter's night!
Nancy - Schooled by Gordon Korman - a homeschooler facing public school - Yikes!
Janice - World Without End by Ken Follett - intrigue and mystery abound in a town building a bridge.
Sue - The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton - an American librarian brings books into the African bush.
Karen - A Much Married Man by Nicholas Coleridge - marital misadventures that will put a smile on your face.
Misty - Escape by Carolyn Jessop - a polygamist's wife escapes her tyrannical situation - a page turner!
Marcia - River Killings by Merry Jones - An art therapist solves murders with her hunky detective boyfriend.
Diana - Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews - fun and lighthearted.
Dannielle - Born Standing Up by Steve Martin - a Wild and Crazy read!
Janis - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson - a hilarious look at the 50's.
Jake - Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber - earth has been destroyed, now it's time to start over.
Brett - Grave Peril by Jim Butcher - Vampires, Wizards and Murder, Oh My!
Matt - Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman - physics explained!
Uriel - Splinter Cell by Tom Clancy - a top secret covert agent saves his daughter and the world.

What a diverse and eclectic list. We love to hear who's reading what so we can pass it on. Come on in and we'll talk books!

See you soon!

Simultaneous Books

2008-04-07T09:52:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I just can’t find anything good to read. That is a particularly comic statement for someone who spends every working day in a library. My colleagues always come up with suggestions, but nothing really gets me hooked. I end up reading political news magazines and suffering from an onslaught of current events. Then suddenly something clicks, and I am reading again.

Right now I’m reading several great books simultaneously. I’m listening to one in my car (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver), one that is a Hot Pick so I have to read it really fast since I think my week is already up (Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert), one that I had to put aside so I could deal with the Hot Pick issue (Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality by Pauline Chen), and one that I am reading because I am so entranced with watching the babies and toddlers at our Mother Goose on the Loose storytimes (What’s Going on in There: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot). Okay, so they are all nonfiction. Maybe I will read one of the El Dorado Hills staff picks and find a prolific fiction author that will keep me permanently out of my occasional reading funk.

Jeanne

EDH Reads!

2008-03-29T10:23:00.000-07:00

The El Dorado Hills Staff is reading . . .
Sandra - Sunshine by Robin McKinley -"Excellent!"
Janis - The Wild Trees by Preston - "A page turner!"
Wes - No Time for Goodbye by Barclay - "A thriller." (Wes is reading this in German)
Susan - Empire Falls by Richard Russo - "Very enjoyable, so far."

The El Dorado Hills Branch has recently launched an adult book club, and we started our group by reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. It was quite a lively discussion! Our book for April is Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, and we'll follow with Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. We meet on the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Join us!

Susan

SLT Library Club & Current Personal Reads

2008-03-26T11:14:00.000-07:00

Last book discussed by the SLT Library Club for Men: Last man standing by David Baldacci.

A good companion read to the above is: Cold Zero by Christopher Whitcomb.

The club has decided to read Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker. This is a little out of my element and will be the first (gasp!) Western I'll have read.

I've started playing bass (5 String Fretless & 6 String Fretted) and guitar (ESP EC-200) again, so my current bookshelf includes Dan Erlewine's Guitar Player Repair Guide. I'll be doing a full setups on my guitar/bass mob with this book as a reference.

All the above books are available at the El Dorado County Library.

Mark

Stephanie Plum series

2008-03-21T16:41:00.000-07:00

One for the Money... Two for the Dough... I love Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. I can't wait for Fearless Fourteen!

Deborah