Week 5
Assignment 1:
My Favorite site is Goodreads, I got to know to navigate it pretty good and is helpful on many levels:
personally being able to have a log of the books I read .
helping customers , keeping up to date with what my friends are reading.
Assignment 2 :
"Popular" as genre at CA I would say Mystery and Fiction.
NPR talk are, also, popular with our customers and very often a source of information.
A good number of our regular customers are just asking for the Best sellers list.
Early Word it is a site I look from time to time, and I am still discovering its potential.
I do use the Awards section as well the Top club picks, Book club selections, Book of the month and Books to Movies.
Most of the customers I do recommend and talk about books, definitely prefer to read the book before the movie, but we also do get a big "help" when a new movie comes out with customers, which otherwise will not pick up that book.
Assignment 3:
"His wife Leaves Him" by Dixon Stephen
Prizewinner author Dixon will come out in June with a new novel: a story of a man and the loss of his wife. A character driven novel, strongly thematic, funny and tender.
A literary writing in contemporary setting.
This book will be popular with customers that liked authors as: Anita Brookner, Sue Miller, O'Nan Stewart.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Homework for Week 4
2 recommendations in GoodReads
1. "Where'd you go Bernadette" by Semple
A good book for book clubs : fun, fast and many layers of discussion : family issues, motherhood, contemporary life. Compelling and corky characters.
2. "The hare with amber eyes" by de Waal
The mystery of 264 Japanese Netsuke hidden from the Nazis and their amazing discovery, in this art history nonfiction book. Also a family memoir and a travel log of some sort.
2 recommendations in GoodReads
1. "Where'd you go Bernadette" by Semple
A good book for book clubs : fun, fast and many layers of discussion : family issues, motherhood, contemporary life. Compelling and corky characters.
2. "The hare with amber eyes" by de Waal
The mystery of 264 Japanese Netsuke hidden from the Nazis and their amazing discovery, in this art history nonfiction book. Also a family memoir and a travel log of some sort.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Week 3
May 6,2013
Conversation 1
I would look at Frances Mayes books: she is a fun travel writer, also an excelent cook and she will take you to a great part of Italy in the Tuscan countryside, where she buys and restores an old villa. You'll meet the local people and learn delicious recipes.
"Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy" by Frances Mayes.
Conversation 2
Since the customer does not want YA love, I will recommend "A discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness .
A book of vampires, witches, passion and book research : the manuscript found in Oxford, at the Bodleian Library is the pretext for this novel. Interesting characters, including an amazing house...that you would love to "meet".
Conversation 3
Non fiction it is hard for me, but Erik Larson will please every reader:
"In the garden of beasts: love, terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" historical story with a great atmosphere,
begins with love, intrigue and fun life in Germany in the 1933 and ends on a description of violence and terror of the Hitler's Germany.
May 6,2013
Conversation 1
I would look at Frances Mayes books: she is a fun travel writer, also an excelent cook and she will take you to a great part of Italy in the Tuscan countryside, where she buys and restores an old villa. You'll meet the local people and learn delicious recipes.
"Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy" by Frances Mayes.
Conversation 2
Since the customer does not want YA love, I will recommend "A discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness .
A book of vampires, witches, passion and book research : the manuscript found in Oxford, at the Bodleian Library is the pretext for this novel. Interesting characters, including an amazing house...that you would love to "meet".
Conversation 3
Non fiction it is hard for me, but Erik Larson will please every reader:
"In the garden of beasts: love, terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" historical story with a great atmosphere,
begins with love, intrigue and fun life in Germany in the 1933 and ends on a description of violence and terror of the Hitler's Germany.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
The two books I am recommending lately are :
Z - A novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Fowler
A fictional biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of Scott Fitzgerald.
Great read, fast moving tour of the Fitzgerlads life from Montgomery, Jazz age of Paris, France, Italy , New York and all the famous people of the time they meet.
A very interesting inside of the process of writing.
The author, also brings new aspects and a new view of Zelda and Scott life.
Aviator's wife by Melanie Benjamin
Ann Morrow Lindbergh fictional autobiography was a fast and very informative read: 1927 to late 1950, the glamorous and very public life of the Lindbergh family, the kidnapping of their baby, the war years and the relation between husband and wife all made a fascinating experience.
I can recommend the book as a biographical and historical fiction.
Z - A novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Fowler
A fictional biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of Scott Fitzgerald.
Great read, fast moving tour of the Fitzgerlads life from Montgomery, Jazz age of Paris, France, Italy , New York and all the famous people of the time they meet.
A very interesting inside of the process of writing.
The author, also brings new aspects and a new view of Zelda and Scott life.
Aviator's wife by Melanie Benjamin
Ann Morrow Lindbergh fictional autobiography was a fast and very informative read: 1927 to late 1950, the glamorous and very public life of the Lindbergh family, the kidnapping of their baby, the war years and the relation between husband and wife all made a fascinating experience.
I can recommend the book as a biographical and historical fiction.
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