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At Library AF, we want to meet adult readers where they are now! Whether that be in our local libraries, out in the community, or from the comfort of home (👋🏻 virtual programs! 👋🏻).
For the young adult readers (and those still young at heart), join us for monthly book group discussions, lively pop culture banter, and other enjoyable non-traditional programs.
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Silent Reading Group meetupRiver Bend Park, Sacramento, CA
Join Sacramento Public Library and the American River Parkway Foundation @ River Bend Park for book-based programming this summer!
The Silent Reading Group is designed to make space in our busy lives for reading and listening to books, meeting new people, and sharing a community space together. Bring the book currently holding your bookmark (or occupying your headphones) and spend some time enjoying your book and the outdoors. There will be time at the end of the silent reading session to chat with fellow readers and to explore the parkway at River Bend Park.
Please register to attend. Parking passes will be available, and instructions will be emailed to registrants prior to the program date.
- Book Group: Fahrenheit 451Sacramento LGBT Community Center, Sacramento, CA
The Library AF book group will be meeting IN PERSON for the rest of 2025. Please find us at the Sacramento LGBT Center in the Lambda Founder's Room on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Our classic pick for 2025 is Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. I do not recall reading this when I was in high school so I'm excited to pick this one up to discuss with this group.
“Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known."
Synopsis from Goodreads
- Book Group: Family LoreSacramento LGBT Community Center, Sacramento, CA
Featuring another adult novel debut from a prominent YA author, our pick for October is Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo. Her storytelling is unique and all-encompassing; her audio performances are nothing short of astounding.
“Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake--a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she's led--her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else's? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila.
But Flor isn't the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own.
Spanning the three days prior to the wake, Family Lore traces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, Santo Domingo and New York City. Told with Elizabeth Acevedo's inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and nieces--one family's journey through their history, helping them better navigate all that is to come."
Synopsis from catalog.saclibrary.org
