Week 3

     I thought the article by Neal Wyatt offered some good tips for improving readers advisory services in a way that is comfortable to each person. One thing that I keep seeing that I need to work on is really getting to the appeal factors of book a lot quicker because I don't want to lose the attention of the customer before I get to the meat of the item.
     In conversation 1 I gather that the customer is looking for a book with a strong inner monologue for the protagonist and that setting is important. I also gather that she wants a book for her book club and so the book should have wider appeal and good discussion points. After reviewing Novel List Plus for about a minute and a half I came across Wild by Cheryl Strayed.

     Wild was chosen for Oprah's book club list and is a travel writing book written from the perspective of a woman who is overcoming adversity in her life. The book delves into the inner thoughts of a woman trying to regain perspective after her world has been thrown into disarray.

     In conversation number 2 I understand that the reader would like something about vampires, but where the characters are older. This person also seems to want the book to move at a faster pace. When I first read the conversation I thought of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series because the characters are older and the books are quick reads;

 however if the romance is a deal breaker I would suggest Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire where the characters are older, yet there isn't a lot of romance.



     For conversation 3 I surmised that the reader enjoyed the fact that The River of Doubt was a true story and the fact that the true story was a quick adventure type read. After looking through Good Reads I came across Into Africa by Martin Dugard.



This book is a riveting true story that follows the adventures of Livingston as he travels through Africa to discover the source of the Nile River. Livingston goes into the wilds and doesn't return. After several years of intrigue a media ploy is thrown together in which Stanley will go to Africa and see if he can find the missing Livingston.