Week 4 assignments

I admit it. I am a terrible GoodReads member. With Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, etc., I think I might just have topped off on social networking by the time I got to GoodReads.  I'm going to give it more of a shot, though.

One of the things that keeps me from participating fully in GoodReads is that it will require some catch-up.  I have read a lot of stuff and don't want to go through the steps of adding at least a representative set of titles.  Consequently, it looks like I don't read much of anything, which isn't entirely true. 

GoodReads really does have a lot to offer.  Listopia proved to be a great source of read-alikes. I remember years ago painstakingly maintaining library lists like that. In particular, I noted several "clean reads" lists for parents to use with kids/tweens/teens. That's a particularly difficult readers advisory question to answer since it's difficult to assure a customer that there is nothing to offend in a book that you haven't actually read. 

For a recommendation, I chose the book Paris by Edward Rutherfurd since it's long and I'm likely to be reading it through most of these assignments.  I recommended it to a friend who had been to Paris last year.  I said,

"Hi,  I'm working on a readers advisory assignment and I need to recommend something to someone on GoodReads. You're the lucky winner.  I think you'd enjoy this title.  It is quite long but might be a perfect way to spend a few of those days in retirement.  I'm recommending it mostly because you have been to Paris recently, This book gives such a good perspective on the history of the city and all of the things that made it one of the premier cities in the world. I'm finding it to be fascinating.