Have Pen Will Review

Imagine: How Creativity Works by John Lehrer 1. Where is this book on the narrative continuum? Highly fact based (most stories are to frame the idea that each chapter is discussing) 2. What is the subject of the book? Creativity and the psychology behind it. 3. What type of book is it? An exploration study of how the brain is creative. 4. Articulate appeal What is the pacing of the book? It is a quick read with each chapter being an independent topic. Describe the characters of the book. N/A How does the story feel? N/A What is the intent of the author? To teach the reader how the brain views creativity and how they can be more creative in their own life. What is the focus of the story? The antidotes in this book focus on creativity and how it is expressed differently in different people. Does language matter? Not particularly but it is an easy read. Is the setting important and well described? The setting is not important other than that it is...

Ebooks and audiobooks are a part of our landscape. What does the change in medium mean for appeal factors? If you can't hold a book and feel the physical weight of it in your hands, how does that affect your knowledge of the genre? How about readers being able to change the font, line spacing, and color of text - how does that affect pacing and tone? How about audiobooks? Track length, narrator choice, is there music?  For this week, I want you to think about how ebooks and audiobooks affect appeal factors - also think about appeals that are unique to both mediums. Please feel free to use your own experience and that of your (anonymous of course) patrons. I look forward to reading these! Ebooks and audiobooks have been growing in popularity in the past few years, or at least it feels that way to me. When I listen to podcasts or go to the library, I am now bombarded with advertisements for audible or new ebook apps such as Overdrive or Libby. But are these resources really be...

Synopsis (Spoiler free): Long ago there were three gods, the god of day, the god of night, and the goddess of twilight. These gods lived in harmony until Itempas', the god of the day kills the goddess of twilight and enslaves  Nahadoth', the god of night. Nahadoth' and several of his godling children are under the control of the  Arameri, a group of humans that worship Itempas' as the one true god. Thousands of years later, the Arameri have conquered the world and their leader, who is nearing death, summons  Yeine, his estranged granddaughter, back to the palace. Yeine must now discover the true reason that she was brought into a family that she has never known and if she is lucky maybe figure out who murdered her mother. Pacing: Fitting peferectly within the fantasy genre, the pacing of this book starts out slow establishing much about the world and the situation that Yeine finds herself in. As time goes on the pace increases from an action packed ending wher...

For this assignment, I found a book club at a local library that marketed itself as an atypical book club where they both read a book and were looking to make friends in the community. To further this goal, this book club took place around dinner time at a locally owned pizzeria. So while snacks were not provided, the venue allowed the attendees to both eat and drink, if they were so inclined. For the discussion, it felt very informal. There were several staff members from the library present but they did not say much in an official capacity. They mainly handled the housekeeping things, such as collecting books at the end of the night and distributing the book that the group had decided on reading for next time. They did have a short introduction, where they welcomed new people and let them know how the discussion worked for this book club. Other than those couple of functions, you would not be able to tell apart the library staff from the regular patrons who were attending. The discu...

For this post I took some of the strongest sentiments from my paper since I already grossly summarized multiple topics in it and summarizing it more would trivalize the points that I was illustrating. If anyone is interested in my full paper please let me know and I would be happy to share. In 2018, Black Panther made over $1.3 billion and still was only the second highest-grossing movie that year. The honor of being the highest-grossing movie was given to Avengers: Infinity War, which earned a staggering $2 billion (boxofficemojo.com, 2019). Both of these movies were adaptations (or at least inspired by) graphic novels of these characters. So what makes graphic novels so interesting that they are able to make over $3 billion? The goal of this paper is to explore the history of graphic novels and look at what people like about them in order to have a better understanding of what to keep in mind when recommending them to a patron. With all of that in mind, we now come to the questio...