2. Kathryn
Bergeron
Systems
Librarian
Baldwin
Public
Library
All
slides
and
Handouts
will
be
made
available
on
my
website:
hFp://www.kabergeron.com
and
eventually
at
the
MLA
website.
8. “We
have
found
that
most
readers
are
usually
not
looking
for
a
book
on
a
certain
subject.
They
want
a
book
with
a
parJcular
‘feel.’”
Joyce
Saricks
Reader’s
Advisory
Service
in
the
Public
Library
9. “Appeal
is
what
takes
us—and
readers—beyond
mere
subjects
and
plotlines.”
Joyce
Saricks
Reader’s
Advisory
Service
in
the
Public
Library
10. “The
elements
of
books
to
which
a
reader
relates
consJtute
the
appeal
of
a
book
for
the
reader.”
Joyce
Saricks
Reader’s
Advisory
Service
in
the
Public
Library
25. Descrip5on
from
iTunes:
A
stately
country
house,
a
noble
family,
and
a
succession
crisis
are
the
backdrop
for
Downton
Abbey,
an
Edwardian
spellbinder
by
Oscar-‐winning
writer
Julian
Fellowes
(Gosford
Park).
The
series
that
took
the
UK
by
storm,
Downton
Abbey
stars
Hugh
Bonneville,
Maggie
Smith,
Elizabeth
McGovern,
and
a
house
full
of
revered
actors
in
a
producJon
that
brings
a
gliBering
bygone
era
to
life.
26. From
jinni.com:
The
mood
of
Downton
Abbey
is
stylized
and
cap5va5ng.
The
plot
centers
around
masters
and
servants,
social
differences,
and
power
rela5ons.
It
is
a
drama
and
period
TV
show.
StylisJcally,
Downton
Abbey
stars
an
ensemble
cast.
In
approach,
it
is
serious
and
realis5c.
It
takes
place,
at
least
partly,
on
an
estate
and
in
the
countryside.
Downton
Abbey
is
set
in
England.
It
happens
in
the
1910s.
The
TV
show
is
known
for
being
a
Golden
Globe
winner,
an
Emmy
winner,
and
criJcally
acclaimed.
Downton
Abbey
is
especially
suggested
for
a
girls'
night.
27. Appeal
Factors
•
Character-‐driven
•
Issue-‐oriented
•
Strong
sense
of
place
•
Dialogue-‐rich
•
Engaging
•
Richly-‐detailed
•
StylisJcally
complex
•
WiBy
40. From
Publisher’s
Weekly:
/*
Starred
Review
*/
There’s
the
evil
you
can
see
coming—and
then
there’s
Amy
EllioB.
Superficially,
this
privileged
Gotham
golden
girl,
inspiraJon
for
her
psychologist-‐parents’
bestselling
series
of
children’s
books,
couldn’t
be
further
from
the
disturbingly
damaged
women
of
Edgar-‐finalist
Flynn’s
first
two
books,
Sharp
Objects
and
Dark
Places.
But
as
Amy’s
husband,
Nick
Dunne,
starts
to
realize
aper
she
disappears
from
their
rented
mansion
in
his
Missouri
hometown
on
their
fiph
anniversary—and
he
becomes
the
prime
suspect
in
her
presumed
murder—
underesJmaJng
Amy’s
sick
genius
and
twisted
gamesmanship
could
prove
fatal.
Then
again,
charmer
Nick
may
not
be
quite
the
corn-‐fed
innocent
he
iniJally
appears.
Flynn
masterfully
lets
this
tale
of
a
marriage
gone
toxically
wrong
gradually
emerge
through
alternaJng
accounts
by
Nick
and
Amy,
both
unreliable
narrators
in
their
own
ways.
The
reader
comes
to
discover
their
layers
of
deceit
through
a
process
similar
to
that
at
work
in
the
imploding
relaJonship.
Compulsively
readable,
creepily
unforgeBable,
this
is
a
must
read
for
any
fan
of
bad
girls
and
good
wriJng.
Agent:
Stephanie
Rostan,
Levine
Greenberg.
(June)
-‐-‐Staff
(Reviewed
March
26,
2012)
(Publishers
Weekly,
vol
259,
issue
13,
p)
52. From
Publisher’s
Weekly:
/*
Starred
Review
*/
From
the
1936
Olympics
to
WWII
Japan's
most
brutal
POW
camps,
Hillenbrand's
heart-‐wrenching
new
book
is
thousands
of
miles
and
a
world
away
from
the
racing
circuit
of
her
bestselling
Seabiscuit.
But
it's
just
as
much
a
page-‐turner,
and
its
hero,
Louie
Zamperini,
is
just
as
loveable:
a
disciplined
champion
racer
who
ran
in
the
Berlin
Olympics,
he's
a
wit,
a
prankster,
and
a
reformed
juvenile
delinquent
who
put
his
thieving
skills
to
good
use
in
the
POW
camps,
In
other
words,
Louie
is
a
total
charmer,
a
lover
of
life-‐-‐whose
will
to
live
is
cruelly
tested
when
he
becomes
an
Army
Air
Corps
bombardier
in
1941…In
the
"theater
of
cruelty"
that
was
the
Japanese
POW
camp
network,
Louie
landed
in
the
cruelest
theaters
of
all:
Omori
and
Naoetsu,
under
the
control
of
Corp.
Mutsuhiro
Watanabe,
a
pathologically
brutal
sadist
(called
the
Bird
by
camp
inmates)
who
never
killed
his
vicJms
outright-‐-‐his
pleasure
came
from
their
slow,
unending
torment…By
war's
end,
Louie
was
near
death.
When
Naoetsu
was
liberated
in
mid-‐August
1945,
a
depleted
Louie's
only
thought
was
"I'm
free!
I'm
free!
I'm
free!"
But
as
Hillenbrand
shows,
Louie
was
not
yet
free.
Even
as,
returning
stateside,
he
impulsively
married
the
beauJful
Cynthia
Applewhite
and
tried
to
build
a
life,
Louie
remained
in
the
Bird's
clutches,
haunted
in
his
dreams,
drinking
to
forget,
and
obsessed
with
vengeance…The
book's
final
secJon
is
the
story
of
how,
with
Cynthia's
help,
Louie
found
his
path…
Hillenbrand's
triumph
is
that
in
telling
Louie's
story
(he's
now
in
his
90s),
she
tells
the
stories
of
thousands
whose
suffering
has
been
mostly
forgoBen.
She
restores
to
our
collecJve
memory
this
tale
of
heroism,
cruelty,
life,
death,
joy,
suffering,
remorselessness,
and
redempJon.
(Nov.)
-‐Reviewed
by
Sarah
F.
Gold
-‐-‐Staff
(Reviewed
October
11,
2010)
(Publishers
Weekly,
vol
257,
issue
40,
p)
64. From
Publisher’s
Weekly:
Taking
a
well-‐worn
genre—flesh-‐eaJng
zombies
overrun
the
world
and
the
unlucky
surviving
humans
must
deal
with
the
gruesome
apermath—
and
approaching
it
from
a
purely
character-‐driven
point
of
view
propels
this
series
into
the
spotlight
from
out
of
nowhere.
This
collecJon
of
the
first
six
issues
of
the
ongoing
series
opens
with
police
officer
Rick
Grimes
awakening
from
a
gunshot-‐
induced
coma.
From
here,
he's
immediately
dragged
into
a
world
where
dangerous
revenants
are
shambling
amok
without
any
sort
of
an
explanaJon.
From
the
moment
Grimes
comes
to,
it's
a
harrowing
baBle
to
avoid
hordes
of
decomposing
zombies
and
a
hope-‐against-‐all-‐odds
search
for
his
missing
family.
Grimes
makes
his
way
to
Atlanta,
the
nearest
large
city
where
there
may
be
other
living
people,
and
events
take
several
unexpected
turns
upon
his
arrival,
as
he
meets
up
with
a
rural
encampment
of
survivors.
Of
course,
as
in
recent
hit
movies
28
Days
Later...
and
Dawn
of
the
Dead,
the
last
humans
may
turn
out
to
be
as
much
a
danger
as
the
zombies.
Forceful
scripJng
that
gives
the
book
a
strong
grounding
in
reality,
crisp
b&w
artwork,
a
shocking
final
sequence
and
brisk,
gory
proceedings
elevate
this
book
from
the
trash
heap
of
pedestrian
horror
comics.
(May)
—
Staff
(Reviewed
June
14,
2004)
(Publishers
Weekly,
vol
251,
issue
24,
p45)
76. From
jinni.com:
The
mood
of
Village
of
the
Damned
is
scary,
suspenseful,
and
atmospheric.
The
plot
centers
around
evil
aliens,
a
family
in
danger,
and
supernatural
abiliJes.
It
is
a
horror,
sci-‐fi,
and
thriller
movie.
In
approach,
Village
of
the
Damned
is
serious.
It
takes
place,
at
least
partly,
in
a
village
and
in
a
small
town.
The
sexng
is
England.
Village
of
the
Damned
happens
in
the
1950s.
It
is
based
on
a
book.
The
movie
is
known
for
being
criJcally
acclaimed.
88. Review
from
Billboard:
Fipeen-‐year-‐old
pop
sensaJon
JusJn
Bieber's
first
Billboard
Hot
100
single,
"One
Time,"
was
an
insanely
catchy
ode
to
young
love
that
immediately
won
over
fans.
And
so
were
his
second,
third
and
fourth.
It's
no
wonder,
then,
that
Bieber's
debut
album,
"My
World,"
sJcks
to
the
formula.
His
vocals
are
as
boyish
as
they
are
disarmingly
mature.
With
genuine
swagger
on
the
nimble
R&B
track
"Bigger,"
Bieber
sings,
"I
was
a
player
when
I
was
liBle,
but
now
I'm
bigger
.
.
.
and
all
the
haters,
I
swear,
they
look
so
small
from
up
here."
The
ballad
"Down
to
Earth"
(a
song
he
co-‐
wrote
about
his
parents'
separaJon)
reveals
a
deeper
side:
"So
we
fight
through
the
hurt,
and
we
cry
and
cry
and
cry
and
cry/
Then
we
live
and
we
learn,
and
we
try."
Judging
by
the
delivery
of
those
poignant
lines,
it's
hardly
a
stretch
to
imagine
Bieber
racking
up
more
hits
in
the
next
decade
to
come.
(Billboard
via
MetacriJc)
100. From
The
Sixth
Axis:
Pros:
Likeable
characters,
the
baBle/
Paradigms
systems
are
great,
looks
fantasJc,
some
of
the
music
is
wonderful,
hunJng
monsters
can
get
very
addic5ve,
lots
to
do
outside
of
the
main
story.
Scoring
Final
Fantasy
XIII-‐2
is
almost
irrelevant.
For
every
person
who
nods
their
head
whilst
reading
this
review,
there
will
be
one
wondering
just
what
on
earth
I’ve
been
smoking.
I
absolutely
love
the
game,
and
found
myself
totally
absorbed
in
everything
it
has
to
offer.
The
Paradigms
system,
the
monster
hunJng,
even
level
grinding
was
enjoyable,
encouraging
experimentaJon
to
put
together
the
best
possible
team
and
Paradigms.
2012
has
certainly
kicked
off
with
a
bang.
101. Appeal
Factors
•
Intricately
PloBed
•
Atmospheric
•
HaunJng
•
Strong
Sense
of
Place
•
Compelling
•
Dialogue-‐rich