The Golden Rules of Readers' Advisory Services

What stuck out to me the most in this article is keeping a reading log. I think I put too much faith in Goodreads, and I know it is a great tool to rate and comment on books; however, it is not a hardcopy, and I'm thinking I should start a Book Diary. Also, I need to venture out of my "comfort zone" genres because I want to be able to look at more genres objectively, and honing in and learning more readers' advisory skills would help me do that!

Week #1: Judge a book by its cover

For the two quizzes, I had high hopes because I figured I spent 3/4 of my life in libraries so I knew I would do pretty well recognizing the covers. Well, I was highly mistaken; the adult fiction cover quiz had me stumped after I guessed only 10 out of 24. After that, I gave up and realized I didn't know the rest. However, for the children quiz, I guessed 13/20 in the first two minutes and felt pretty good; some of them were old covers too. I was kind of mad that I recognized Eragon and just stared at it waiting for the name to come to me, but nothing came to me.

The genre book quiz was pretty easy, and introduced me to more subgenres I would have not have known, and I ended up looking them up after.

Goodreads was an easy pick because, personally, Goodreads has enlightened me to many different picks for different genres I would not normally look at. My problem is that I click the "Want to Read" button and never can find time to read them all. I picked Happy Ever After-USA Today because it appealed to me for the fairy tale reference, I will probably change this choice.

The article about the six-year old guessing what the book covers were was hilarious. Admittedly, I am sure my descriptions would have been similar to hers when I was 6 or even now if I had never encountered those classics.