Impressions of Be More Bookish Training

Enjoyed this whole training very much and appreciated being paid to do it! However I did not have time to complete it in depth partly as I am PT even tho you extended it and also because I am moving house which has taken most of my time when not at work!
Thanks again though - I feel more confident about my readers advisory skills now.

week 8 catching up

narrative non-fiction. very interesting video - had not thought about this in such detail.

I would recommend Pollen's "Cooked" for the foodies.
"The Way" by Sheen and Estevez under the memoir and travel categories - father and son recount their different impressions of important incidents in their lives together.
"Bringing Up Bebe" by Druckerman under contemporay social issues. This explains the often startling difference between European and American child rearing practices.
"Poser" by Dederer for those into yoga under the memoir and sports category.
"Man's search for Meaning" by Frankl under the history and spiritual categories for those who enjoyed "Cellist of Sarajevo"

week 7 catching up

read all the teen readers advisory articles. I agree that a lot of it crosses over - I read teen fiction for pleasure also. in fact after reading the Hunger games and the Twilight series, I read "The Host" by Meyer - her adult SF book and greatly enjoyed it.

week 6 catching up

just viewed the Prezi link - the subgenres are amazing - I had no idea apart from a few basic ones like Steampunk that I recommended recently to a customer for her teenager who had never heard of the term.
i would have liked to be able to print this chart as it would be so useful.

Week 5 catching up

I have been following NPR and enjoy reading the articles e.g. todays about the positive effects on Alzheimers of reading and writing. I also enjoyed the reference to George Orwells fashion sense as I have recently reread his classic, 1984.
For book recommendations - I picked up Khaled Hosseini's latest book - The Mountains Echoed which is so far superb.

My customers at the Cockeysville branch enjoy non-fiction more than other branches I've worked in and are heavily into all kinds of fiction.
I find the diffrent categories of new titles listed on Early Word to be very useful.

Week 4 Goodreads

Found Goodreads very frustrating to use. Attempted to write recommendations, saved them and then I am told I have made no recommendations.