Readers' Advisory

Author: Debbie Macomber Title: Summer on Blossom Street Genre: Women's Lives and Relationships Publication date: 2009 Number of Pages: 361 Geographical Setting: Seattle, Washington Time Period: Contemporary Series: 6th book Plot Summary: Macomber's 6th book in the Blossom Street series follows the main protagonist- Lydia Goetz and her life running her yarn shop on in Seattle. Lydia-who is a 2 time cancer survivor, wants to expand her family with her new husband, they decide to adopt a baby. Instead, they were asked to foster a 12 year old girl named Casey-who did not want to live with Lydia or her step son, Cody. During this time Lydia is hosting a knitting class called "Knit to Quit" and finds three students who want to quit something in their lives. We first meet Phoebe Rylander who is wanting to get over her ex fiance, we then meet Bryan "Hutch" Hutchinson who is wanting to quit his fast paced life style and lower his blood pressure so he does n...

Prompt: For our prompt this week, I want you to think about fake memoirs, author mills (James Patterons), and celebrity inspired book clubs. Basically write a readers' response to one of the articles you are reading for this week (see syllabus or links in this post for readings) - or talk about a time when a book or author that made headlines affected you personally or your work. I am responding to Jo Walton's article, "SF reading protocols." I chose Walton's article because I am one of the people she describes in her article as those who have tried science fiction and could not get past the first few pages. I was recommended to read the book, "The Girl with All the Gifts" by M.R. Carey and it took me a while to get into the book and the action that takes place. It is not very action motivated except for a few moments in the middle and end of the book. I also ended up reading reviews about the book half way through so that I could connect what what hap...

Author: Allison Brook Title: Death Overdue Genre: Mystery (cozy) Publication date: 2017 Number of Pages: 327 Geographical Setting: Connecticut, U.S.A. Time Period: Contemporary Series : First in series Plot Summary: Carrie Singleton is a wanderer. She never stays in one place too long and Clover Ridge is no exception. This time, though, Carrie was not expecting to be offered the head position of Programs and Events at her temp job in the Clover Ridge Library. Convinced by her loving aunt and uncle (who is on the library board of directors) to stay and take on the job, Carrie surprises herself by learning to love her new job and friends. Carrie must prove herself worthy of her new position and deal with the antics of the reference librarian, Dorothy who wanted her job. Carrie's first library program is hosting a retired detective who was coming to tell the town who murdered the reference librarian, Laura Foster, 15 years ago. Only before the detective co...

I would promote romance reads for my library. I would do so by creating a Read-a-like display for popular romance authors such has Debbie Macomber, Danielle Steel, Sophie Kinsella, etc. I’d also create bookmarks to have at the circulation desk when people are checking out that offer author and book recommendations based on preferences to authors, books, and book appeals. This would incorporate advisory by suggesting titles based on other books and genres. It would also be really fun to do knitting, sewing, or cooking programs that relate to some romance books! For instance, we could have a knitting with Debbie Macomber’s A Good Yarn. Or baking with Jenny Colgan’s Little Beach Street Bakery. Where we re-create a recipe or pattern found in the books and it would encourage more to read those titles. Another way I would promote Romance reads would be to do a patron recommendation board. Patrons could write down their favorite romance novel or display it on the shelf if it is in. This...

Title: Love Letters Author: Katie Fforde Genre: Romance Publication date: 2009 Number of Pages: 388 Geographical Setting: English and Irish countryside Time Period: Contemporary Series: standalone Plot Summary: Navigating new waters as her comfortable job as at a bookstore closes, Laura ends up organizing a literary festival where she must secure the most highly regarded, reclusive Irish novelist of their generation. Pushed outside her comfort zone, Laura searches to find a new place for herself while trying to resist her feelings for the brilliant and outlandish Irish writer. Fate seems to keep throwing them together (with the help of Laura's new friends and miscommunication), Laura finds her relationship with the writer is not so far fetched as it seemed to be. Laura's story is all about reaching for her dreams while falling hopelessly in love with the unattainable author. Subject Heading: Romance. Humor. Literature and Books. Appeal Terms: -Story Line: romanced ...

Warcross by Marie Lu Set in the future where virtual reality is more fascinating and incriminating than reality, Emika Chen is an 18 year-old bounty hunter who ends up hacking her way into the fantasy world of Warcross. Now she must navigate around dangerous criminals and help stop a hacker from gaining complete control of the world. Emika Chen is a young girl who is trying to survive day by day in an unfair world. The only bright spot and glimmer of hope resides in the coding and virtual reality of the game Warcross created by young coder, Hideo Tanaka. Emika, like most protagonists, has had a troubling past, abandoned by her mother and raised by her father until he is gone. She is left to tend to the world on her own and does so by hacking her way through the virtual reality and catching cyber criminals who gamble and make trades based on Warcross games. In a desperate attempt to gain access to rent money, Emika finds herself with a new job working for her idol, Hideo Tan...

Not having professional publications of ebooks greatly affects collection development. Many librarians and library patrons (who request books) often look at review publications such as Booklist, Book Page, Kirkus Reviews, etc. when deciding on what to order. If ebooks are left out from reviews then a really wonderful, potentially favorite book for patrons may get overlooked because it did not have a review written for it. Having a professional review and analysis of the book really helps the reader and collection development decide if the book would be worth adding to their collection. Without it, we can be left with sub-par reviews that may not actually reflect to book or do it justice. The Billionaire’s First Christmas by Holly Rayner Based off of the Amazon book review, I feel like the reviewer could have went deeper in explaining the story. When reading the amazing review versus the blog review, the blogger went into a lot more detail about the book giving it pros and cons,...