Prompt Response Week Six
"For lovers of:
- When Harry Met Sally
- Enemies to Lovers
- Grumpy/Sunshine"
Don't forget to write the barcode number on the back for easy checkout without ruining the surprise!
My Reading Profile
As a child, I devoured books. I read multiple at once, always had a book with me, and was punished by having my books taken away. Then, as it so often goes, around the end of high school and through college I hardly ever picked up a book that wasn't required reading for a class. It felt like I lost a part of what made me me, and in Shailene Woodley's immortal words, I'm a reader! That identity was slowly slipping away, but in 2019, as I was getting closer to finishing up at IU, I started to regain my reader identity once again. It started slow, I only finished nine books that first year, but now I'm averaging about a book or more a week and I'm finally at peace (at least in this regard). My favorite genre since childhood is fantasy. I love escaping into fantastical worlds and pretending fairies are real. As an adult, I've come to love literary fiction, romance and memoirs. Something in me cannot listen to fiction audiobooks, but I love a good celebrity memoir
Hello Abigail!
ReplyDeleteBlind Date with a Book is such a fun idea, and it's perfect for the adventurous reader in all of us! I am a big fan of suggesting the blind date as a read-alike for something the patron may already like. That makes it more of a safe bet that the patron will enjoy the book. A librarian at my library decided to use the first line of the book as the hook on the cover to encourage people to pick it up. I think this is super effective, but only if the first line is a doozy, such as "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York." This is the first line of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, and it already has given me a setting, a timeframe, and a tone of death and strangeness. Finding the right books for these kinds of displays is half the job, but it is such a fun idea, especially for February!
I love this idea! My library did something like this where they gave the genre and the first line of the book and you used that to pick one to read. It was fun. But I love the "blind date" direction you went with it. And I like how you used some movies and appeal factors to help readers make a choice.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about this same type of program in my response. Which means I also love this idea! Our library even did it for valentines day like you mentioned doing. I love that you incorporated movies in the descriptions of the books.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a wonderful idea! I've seen this done before at bookstores but have never personally seen it done at the library. I've always wanted to do this at least once, but I am scared to buy a book I know nothing about. This is such a fantastic alternative! You get to participate in the fun of not knowing the book while not committing to purchasing it. I also love that you included similar movies and TV shows!
ReplyDeleteOur library did this for Valentine's Day. It goes over really well. I put our display with a catchy saying on social media, I think there are only two books left on the display,
ReplyDeleteThis idea is always a classic. I've even seen some bookstores do it! Great post!
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