I'm finished!

I enjoyed the work, the sessions definitely taught me a lot about Reader's Advisory. To be honest, I am not a fan of online learning or trainings; to me, it is at your own pace and becomes lax. With a interactive group discussion and training would be better.


I would recommend having a meeting halfway through to discuss the sessions face to face and a meeting for the last session as well and also to throw opinions and different insights of the trainings, and not just reading everyone's reviews online.


But it was great!

Book Trailers (week #9)

This is my first time hearing about book trailers actually being a thing so I had no expectations when looking for some YouTube, but I was presently surprised at how captivating they were. Some are done by libraries, while others are made by the book publishing media outlets. I honestly think they are an awesome way to promote books. The book trailers remind me of TV show trailers, adding to the drama of the book which hooks the reader, and also gives an example of the imagination by adding the visual of the book.

week #8 part 4: Recommending Non-fiction

Wild by Cheryl Strayed is a memoir of a woman who takes a 1100-mile solo hike who loses everything, and through her adventure, she becomes herself again. This book is pretty popular because it just became a movie last year. It has an inspiring tone and a descriptive and lyrical writing style which is relative to travel fiction.


The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is a well-told story of the events taken during the building and events of the Worlds Fair which took place in Chicago, circa1893. Larson depicts the true life events of Daniel H. Burham, who was the architect of the Worlds Fair, and of Dr. H. H. Holmes, a serial killer who used the Worlds Fair to lure victims. This book is very engaging and has a suspenseful and disturbing tone. It is very detailed and gritted. I would recommend this book to anyone that reads true crime or murder mystery fiction.

week #8 part 3: Nonfiction Genres

The four non-fiction genres that I find narrative styles in are History (940), Crime (364), Travel-Adventure (910-920) and Biographies. Not all bios with narrative styles are in the Biography sections; for example, Yes, Please by Amy Poehler is a American humor nonfiction but it is also an autobiography of American comedian Amy Poehler, and I would recommend to someone that usually reads humor fiction. The Devil in the White City (crime) and Dead Wake (history) are both by Erik Larson but are different genres of non-fiction. He is a great narrative non-fiction, able to tell a factual story with suspense that grabs the reader. For Travel-Adventure, the book that came to mind first was Wild by Cheryl Strayed.