Beth Wooden is the senior assortment growth librarian for the Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries. E mail her at readingforfun@fvrl.org.
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We library employees are surrounded by books all day, however some of the difficult questions will all the time be “Can you recommend a good book?” Right here’s an perception, readers: we all know numerous books, however we don’t know what YOU like. Nancy Pearl, a retired Seattle librarian who has written a number of books on us — the library employees — serving to you — the library patron — to seek out books, says that “any good book is a book that you enjoy.”
So, after you ask us to advocate a e book, we’re going to ask you just a few inquiries to strive to determine what “a good book” means to you. In Libraryland, this course of is called reader’s advisory. Nancy Pearl described the 4 Doorways into studying fiction — story, character, setting and language. The doorway that you just get pleasure from probably the most usually determines the kind of e book you’ll love.
Story doorway
These books are sometimes described as “page-turners”; readers will say “I couldn’t put it down” or “I kept leaving my chores to read another chapter.” The story drives the e book, and readers are pushed to see how the e book ends. Books with story doorways may embrace:
“Jurassic Park” by Michael Crichton
“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
Thrillers, horror
Character doorway
With a personality doorway, it’s the individuals who intrigue you. You wish to be pals with them, perhaps be romantically concerned with them. You want they had been actual, really feel like you realize them and mourn the top of the e book. Character doorway books may embrace:
