Week 9: Assignment 3

The Be More Bookish blog has been an interesting and eye-opening journey into readers' advisory. I liked that the activities were self-paced and I enjoyed learning about appeal factors; genres and subgenres and other readers' advisory resources.

Week 9: Assignment 2

I think book trailers are a nice marketing tool. Some of the trailers were good, but the fan ones were hilarious. I don't think I would use book trailers for a readers' advisory since we have so many other tools from which to choose. I feel book trailers definitely succeed in pulling in young adult readers.

Week 9: Assignment 1

I read the two articles about book trailers from the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times.  I watched some book trailers on You Tube.   I enjoyed the Packing for Mars book trailer.  I read the book year ago and the trailer gave me a chuckle.

Week 8: Assignment 4

The two titles are chose were Gross America by Richard Faulk and Stiff by Mary Roach.

I think Gross America by Faulk would appeal to teens and adults because of the subject matter.  For teens, they would want to find out where's the grossest place in America and can they get there.  For adults, I think genuine curiosity and maybe having a trivia nugget in their pocket would satisfy.

Stiff by Mary Roach would appeal to young adults and adults who are curious to what happens to our bodies after we die.  Maybe adults who are organ donors and wonder what their body will be used for and in what experiments. Ms. Roach has an engaging and witty style of writing that makes the subject matter accessible to all. People that like to read true crime would like this title.

Week 8: Assignment 3

The four nonfiction genres I chose were:

1. Science
2. Sports
3. Travel
4. Medical

The Dewey areas are:

1. 523.1H
2. 796.522 K
3. 917.3 F
4. 611 R

The titles I chose were:

1. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
2. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
3. Gross America: your coast-to-coast guide to all things gross by Richard Faulk
4. Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach

Week 8: Assignment 2

What a nice video about readers' advisory with nonfiction from the Maryland State Library Resource Center. I learned that - Readers choose nonfiction for:  Enrichment, Entertainment, Pleasure and Recreation. 

I will remember that Narrative Nonfiction:

-Tells a good story
-Develops Characters
-Sets a scene
-Creates suspense
-Is written in an engaging style

Appeal Characteristics for nonfiction are:

1. Illustrations/pictures
2. Bibliographies
3. Indexes
4. Checklists
5. Forms
6. Self-tests

Week 8: Assignment 1

I read two good articles about nonfiction readers' advisory.   I've learned that:

-Narrative fiction is the key to crossing between fiction and nonfiction.
-Truman Capote's In Cold Blood was the first example of narrative fiction.
-Subject matter is a powerful appeal factor that crosses freely between fiction and nonfiction.
-Sometimes readers don't want to do something; they just want to read about it.