1. I am looking for a book by Laurell K. Hamilton. I just
read the third book in the Anita Blake series and I can’t figure out which one
comes next!
Next in the series: The lunatic café (January 1996)
2. What have I read recently? Well, I just finished this
great book by Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer. I really liked the way it
was written, you know, the way she used language. I wouldn't mind something a
bit faster paced though.
Saving the world
(Apr 2006) by Julia Alvarez. Based on the appeal of the Kingsolver novel, I
think that the reader might enjoy the reflective, romantic, suspenseful tone,
the compelling and lyrical writing style, and the brisk pace of this novel.
3. I like reading books set in different countries. I just
read one set in China, could you help me find one set in Japan? No, not modern
– historical. I like it when the author describes it so much it feels like I
was there!
The translation of
love (Apr 2016) by Lynne Kutsukake
The thousand autumns
of Jacob De Zoet (Jun 2010) by David Mitchell
4. I read this great mystery by Elizabeth George called
Well-Schooled in Murder and I loved it. Then my dentist said that if I liked
mysteries I would probably like John Sandford, but boy was he creepy I couldn't
finish it! Do you have any suggestions?
A possibility of
violence (Jul 2014) by Dror Mishani
The nature of the
beast: a Chief Inspector Gamache novel (Aug 2015) by Louise Penny
5. My husband has really gotten into zombies lately. He’s
already read The Walking Dead and World War Z, is there anything else you can
recommend?
Day by day Armageddon
(Sep 2009) by J. L. Bourne
6. I love books that get turned into movies, especially literary
ones. Can you recommend some? Nothing too old, maybe just those from the last 5
years or so.
Wild girls (Oct
2016) by Erica Abeel
Judas (Nov 2016)
by Amos Oz
The Wonder (Sep
2016) by Emma Donoghue
All the light we
cannot see (May 2014) by Anthony Doerr
7. I love thrillers but I hate foul language and sex scenes.
I want something clean and fast paced.
I had some difficulty searching within a genre and limiting
the results to weed out foul language and sex scenes. Am I overlooking an
important tool on NoveList or other RA resources?
I stuck to literary thrillers in the hope that the
storylines and writing styles might not include a great deal of foul language
or sex scenes.
The last days of night
(Sep 2016) by Graham Moore
A guide for the
perplexed (Sep 2013) by Dara Horn
Second, after you get a chance to do the readings and explore
Mary Chelton's list of tools, I want to hear about how you find books to read.
It could be a site or a resource you've just discovered or one you've used for
years, one you use for yourself or for your patrons or family and friends.
It’s been just in the past few weeks that I’ve started to
use readers’ advisory tools (like goodreads, Novelist, etc.) to find books that
I might like to read. In the past, I’ve relied mostly on browsing sections of stacks
and bookstores, Amazon.com recommendations, and book award lists.
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ReplyDeleteLeah, I had trouble using Novelist to find clean reads as well. I could not find any suggestions on how to limit for language or sex either. I finally searched GoodReads because I have used this as a tool before when looking for clean reads.
ReplyDeleteHi Leah! When searching NoveList for #7, I used the NOT search function to eliminate titles with "Steamy" or "Explicit" in the Tone category. According to NoveList's "Appeal Terms," both "steamy" and "explicit" tones include explicit sexual acts described in the novels, which is just what the patron wants to avoid. Unfortunately, I could not find anything to eliminate "foul language," so I had to guess a bit. I guess I could have cross-checked my selected titles with other book sites to see if they listed anything about the language in the books.
ReplyDeleteHi Julie, ah -- right! Thanks for the tip!
DeleteThe last one is a bit tricky, sometimes looking for Christian or inspirational books is a way to make sure there is nothing too steamy. Another good cheat is http://www.openingthebook.com/whichbook/ and you can put no sex as a search term. Full points!
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