Week 5: Assignment 3

I chose Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs. It is described as action-packed, and the description promises a desperate journey and a need for heroism. As the third in a series, it should have a readership base awaiting it, and the peculiar cover with its winged boy is attention grabbing. It should appeal to readers of fantasy that shades into horror.

Week 5: Assignment 2

I love that Early Word is one-stop shopping for movie and TV tie-ins, awards, reviews and interviews, best-of lists, etc. without the randomness and repetition of Goodreads. It is well indexed and easy to navigate.

Some of the links are more fruitful than others: Program Ideas was a bust, but Book Groups had some good stuff for those customers who come in when it is their turn to choose for their groups.

Week 5: Assignment 1

The breadth of my conception of urban fiction expanded after reading Urban Reviews for a while. What I’d picked up before in my efforts to “read around the library” didn’t hit even half of the story types covered in Urban Reviews. Still, I have only very rarely fielded advisory questions about urban fiction, almost as few as about westerns, although they are very popular at TO. I would certainly recommend customers check out Urban Reviews as well as Goodreads even though most readers I’ve dealt with come in with titles already in mind.