I instantly liked Stacked, it is organized and she writes in complete sentences! I can see I am going to look forward to following this blog. She also uses appeal factors when recommending books. I'm reading her commentary on blogging, which I found to be very enlightening. What is the purpose of blogging reviews, how do the publisher's take advantage of blogging reviews and who should be blogging so that the reader identifies a non-biased review.
Stack appeals to Young Adult readers and includes reviews and comments on material including audio materials, graphic novels, digital and video material. It is one of the more active and current blogging sites for Young Adults I have seen so far.
They promote new authors and new titles to be reviewed on their site. They have guidelines for submitting material to be reviewed. Each reviewer specifies on the site their preference for the genre they prefer to read and review.
I would recommend this site for a young adult reader who would like to explore new titles.
Forever Young Adult
This is for the Young Adult who is wanting to move into adult books. The layout would very much appeal to this age group. The photos of older YAs and some older than YA folks drinking alcohol and being cool would be very inviting to the older YA. The site is an eye catcher, the blogs are current. I think this is more oriented to females, but it would also appeal to some males as well.
The site states "FYA is a place where you can let your inner Lady Nerd loose and swoon over fictional characters without shame (while sipping on a cocktail). From book reviews to TV crushes to movie drinking games, it's basically a non-stop internet slumber party, and you're totally invited!"
Ta Da, they have a list of FYA book clubs by city. It looks like Baltimore's Ivy Bookshop is looking to start a FYA bookclub-TBA.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Week 7 Assignment 2 done
Read the following two articles. Following are my comments and thoughts
I read YA Comes of Age by Sue Corbett. This was published in September, 2011.
Publishers noted that the popularity of YA adults is on the rise. This is not surprising, since there has been a surge in some very popular Teen fiction in the last 5-8 years. These teens are getting into their adult years and are still yearning for something to read. Also, there is a segment of the teen population that can afford to purchase new books so it is not surprising to see this trend.
This article was written in 2011, when it was said that the publishers had paranormal fatigue, but the fatigue seems to have had a shot of B12 because it is being published. Dystopia is the more recent genre of interest.
I agree that authors, like Patterson and Steel have been very sly to write YA books in order to grab them before they become adults. No sophisticated marketing there! We, as librarians, can be abreast of the well written books in the popular genres so that we can recommend the not so famous authors who have spent a great deal of time writing an engaging story.
Yalsa
The Hub
Why are adults now reading YA literature Rummel asks? It appears that the surge of blogs have helped to create the interest in YA literature. If one looks at those who are blogging I suspect it is the 20 and 30 year olds. The use of read-a-likes has helped the publishing industry boost interest in authors and titles similar to the popular books such as Game of Thrones, Vampire Academy and, Gossip Girl ect to get them hooked on other similar books. As Rummel noted, the publishers are using savvy marketing techniques to hook these readers. There is a large segment of the population that must read what is popular whether it is well written or not i.e Fifty Shades of Gray.
Rummel shared what genres are popular, dystopia, fantasy and scinece fiction.
I read YA Comes of Age by Sue Corbett. This was published in September, 2011.
Publishers noted that the popularity of YA adults is on the rise. This is not surprising, since there has been a surge in some very popular Teen fiction in the last 5-8 years. These teens are getting into their adult years and are still yearning for something to read. Also, there is a segment of the teen population that can afford to purchase new books so it is not surprising to see this trend.
This article was written in 2011, when it was said that the publishers had paranormal fatigue, but the fatigue seems to have had a shot of B12 because it is being published. Dystopia is the more recent genre of interest.
I agree that authors, like Patterson and Steel have been very sly to write YA books in order to grab them before they become adults. No sophisticated marketing there! We, as librarians, can be abreast of the well written books in the popular genres so that we can recommend the not so famous authors who have spent a great deal of time writing an engaging story.
Yalsa
The Hub
Why are adults now reading YA literature Rummel asks? It appears that the surge of blogs have helped to create the interest in YA literature. If one looks at those who are blogging I suspect it is the 20 and 30 year olds. The use of read-a-likes has helped the publishing industry boost interest in authors and titles similar to the popular books such as Game of Thrones, Vampire Academy and, Gossip Girl ect to get them hooked on other similar books. As Rummel noted, the publishers are using savvy marketing techniques to hook these readers. There is a large segment of the population that must read what is popular whether it is well written or not i.e Fifty Shades of Gray.
Rummel shared what genres are popular, dystopia, fantasy and scinece fiction.
Week 7 Assignment 1 done
Lawrence Public Library's Read Alike flowchart is useful in that it provides specific themes to the books such as natural disasters, climate, earthquakes, volcanoes etc. It is has a logic flow to it, that leads one from one genre to subgenres. I clicked on the title and was dissappointed that it did not take you to the catalog so that you could get more information about the book. It is very linear, you miss the options to links; however, the designer provided a detailed diagram that is very useful.
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