Be More Bookish is drawing to a close. :(
I found that keeping this blog was a helpful and fun exercise, though it was more work than I was expecting it to be. I've kept blogs before (for work and for pleasure), but some weeks seemed to take a long time to get done (or maybe that's just my perfectionist nature coming through).
I loved exploring different genres and subgenres. A fellow librarian and I even used the Fiction Genre Flowchart prezi in a readers advisory conversation with a real-live customer! (This customer usually read chick lit, and wanted to read some "adventure" fiction for the first time but didn't know what kind she was looking for. Bingo! Perfect opportunity to wield newly gained sub-genre knowledge.)
I also found the appeal characteristics work to be quite helpful. Not just in giving me more descriptive language to describe books, but in learning how to pare down a book talk from mostly summary to mostly appeal terms. I've been practicing this, too, as often as I can. I hope that it's working!
Overall it was a great experience and one that I would willingly sign up for again. :)
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