Week 6: Assignment 3

SUBGENRES

Paranormal Romance - authors
     Gena Showalter
     Lora Leigh
     Ilona Andrews

Techno Thriller - authors
     Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
     Warren Fahy
     Clive Cussler

Pet Investigators Mystery - authors
     Spencer Quinn
     Susan Conant
     Laurien Berenson
   
           

Week 6: Assignment 2

The Fiction Genres and Subgenres on the Prezi link were interesting to explore.

Week 6: Assignment 1

The genre link that I chose to follow was Stop, You're Killing Me!  This is an amazing website, packed with all of the features one would expect, but also with an incredibly useful indexing feature.  I love the fact that I can search for mysteries involving librarians or a psychotic Vietnam Vet hit man in Iowa or an investigator in Athens, Greece in the year 461 BCE.

Week 5: Assignment 3

From Huffington Post - Best Books of 2013

Year of the Jungle: Memories From the Home Front, by Suzanne Collins and James Proimos.  This 40-page picture book, due to be released on September 10, 2013, has already received rave reviews from Time Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.  It's an autobiographical account of a little girl named Suzy, the youngest of four children, whose father has gone to Vietnam.  Suzy struggles to conceptualize what "war" means, and gradually senses the truth through the increasingly distressing tone of the postcards her father sends home.  He eventually returns from Vietnam, very different, but, is some ways, still the same.

As her first picture book, the award-winning author of The Hunger Games series is sure to find success and a new following with her heartwarming story of love and family and reassurance.

Week 5: Assignment 2

Early Word is an incredible website that I will definitely begin using on a regular basis.  So many useful things are included in this site, such as a huge list of awards, including a few I had never heard of, such as the IACP Cookbook Awards.  Also, it contains links to 14 different Best Seller Lists.

Week 5: Assignment 1

I chose to follow NPR and Stop, You're Killing Me!

NPR Books - I found this to be a very comprehensive site for book reviews.  One of my favorite features is "Three Books..." found under "Reviews."  In this section, authors will recommend a set of three titles based on a shared theme.

Stop, You're Killing Me! -  This is an amazing resource for people who enjoy mysteries, thrillers, suspense novels, etc.  The site includes awards and reviews, but is also indexed so that searches may be done according to character diversity (ie., African American, Jewish, disables), location, historic period, sub-genre, and many more!

Week 4: Assignment 1

I have been using Goodreads for almost three years and still continue to discover new features that help with finding, organizing, and sharing books.  I enjoy creating my personal "bookshelves," reading recommendations and reviews, exploring various book lists in "listopia," and keeping track of what I have read as well as what I would like to read.

Because M'Lissa Moss read and enjoyed "The Art of Racing in the Rain," I recommended another book that I thought she might enjoy called "One Good Dog," by Susan Wilson.