Check Out Our Goodreads Page!

Did you know we have a Goodreads page at the Tiffin-Seneca Public Library?  We do!  And you have the opportunity to connect with us to see what we've been reading and reviewing. 

What is Goodreads?  Think of Facebook but with books.  In fact, you can connect your Goodreads account to your Facebook page.  You can connect with friends and rate, review, and discuss books.  It's a terrific resource to help you find your next great read.

Connect with our Goodreads account at this link.  We hope to share with you what we've been reading!

The Night Circus- Join Us For a New Book Group!

Have you ever read a book that makes you keep going back to re-read passages?  That's the case for me with The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.  The book is so beautifully written with intense imagery and emotions that I found myself going back to read sections over again.

Thankfully, a friend recommended this book to me as I never would have picked it up myself.  A mysterious circus arrives unannounced in towns throughout the world.  Performances of a grand scale take place but only at night.  The circus gains a cult following as enthusiasts attempt to find out where it will be next.  The reader, however, gets a look behind the circus at a competition between Celia and Marco, who are both magicians.  Both have trained since a very early age for this competition without knowing who they are competing against or how a winner will be declared.

This is a difficult  book to classify.  I wasn't sure if I'd care for the elements of magic, but the story is more concerned with the various relationships between the major players.  And I can't say enough about the imagery Morgenstern is able to describe through her writing.  This will definitely be included among my top books of 2012.

If you are interested in discussing this book, join us at the Bailiwicks Coffee Company on Thursday, September 20 at 6:30 for our newest book group, Coffee By The Book!  We have some copies of The Night Circus available for checkout at the Information Desk.  When they run out, contact Chris May in the Reference Dept. and he will place a hold on a copy for you.  We look forward to seeing you at Bailiwicks!

Ohioana Book Award Finalists Announced

I don't pay attention to all of the book awards, but I do watch for the Pulitzers, the Man Booker Prize, and the National Book Awards.  I also pay close attention to the Ohioana Book Awards which, as thename suggests, celebrates authors from the state of Ohio.  With so many great authors being from Ohio (Dan Chaon and Toni Morrison are two of my personal favorites) it's no wonder why these awards are popular.  Here are this years finalists for fiction and non-fiction:

Fiction
Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Devil All the Time by Ronald Ray Pollock
Doc: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell
Ziggy by Tom Wilson

Non-Fiction
History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life by Jill Bialosky
Toward a Better Life: America's New Immigrants in Their Own Words-From Ellis Island to the Present by Peter Morton Coan
Dance Anatomy by Jacqui Greene Haas
The Quest for the Perfect Hive: A History of Innovation in Bee Culture by Gene Kritsky
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean

Check out the Ohioana website for more info on the awards.

Welcome!

Welcome to the Tiffin-Seneca Public Library's blog for readers!  We wanted to create this page as a space to talk about everything related to reading.  What will you see here?  We love giving brief reviews of the books we've been reading.  You'll be kept up-to-date about new and upcoming titles.  We'll discuss books up for national and local awards.  Basically, come here if you're stuck on what to read and want a few suggestions!

This first post serves simply as an introduction to the blog, but we'd love to know what you've been reading.  I'm currently making my way through Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson.  I'm only 3/4 of the way through, but it is a fantastic read so far!

Use the comments section to tell us what you've been reading!