Week 9: Assignment 3

I feel that "Be More Bookish" was a very useful tool in becoming more comfortable with unfamiliar genres.  It might be helpful to be able to spend more time on a specific genre or age group.  If we could perhaps focus on Teens, Children, Adults, separately, it might be possible to absorb more information. All in all, I learned quite a bit, discovered many new resources that I intend to regularly use, and I now have a much longer list of books I want to read!

Week 9: Assignment 2

Personally, I don't care for book trailers but I do realize that they can sometimes be a very useful marketing tool, particularly with younger readers, specifically reluctant readers.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs

Week 9: Assignment 1

The articles on book trailers were quite interesting.

Week 8: Assignment 3

Biography

                                                                     

  Steve Jobs  by Walter Isaacson 

Call Number:  BIO J

Science

         

Death at Sea World by David Kirby

Call Number:  599.53 K 

Medical

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Call Number:  616.89 K

Travel

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Call Number:  917.404 B

Week 8: Assignment 2

The E-Learning video from the Maryland State Library Resource Center was very informative.  The lists of 16 different genres and 16 different appeal factors will be extremely helpful with becoming more comfortable with nonfiction reader's advisory.

Week 8: Assignment 1

The two articles regarding narrative non-fiction were very interesting and helpful!

Week 7: Assignment 4

I spent some time exploring Tor Teen and Teens@Random.  The current trends that I noticed in these two websites is a prevalence of Science Fiction and Fantasy titles.  Ender's Game, the 1985 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, will be released as a film in November 2013 and this has created a resurgence of interest in science fiction.