Think Like a Librarian: The Vegetarian, by Han Kang

I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … The Vegetarian is a short novel set in contemporary Korea.  Yeong-hye is a housewife who, after a terrible dream, decides to become […]

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Interview with M.J. Bell, author of Next Time I See You

Amazon | Goodreads | Author Website Author Facebook Page | Author Goodreads Page | Author Amazon Page Welcome to fellow author M.J. Bell, also author of The Chronicles of the Secret Prince trilogy.  Previous interviews with Richard Bamberg, Rob Chansky, P.R. Adams, Megan Rutter, and Jason Dias are also available. 1. I know you worked hard on making the time travel as accurate as possible.  Can you tell

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Interview with Jason Dias, author of Life on Mars

Amazon | Goodreads | Twitter | Patreon | Author Website Author Facebook Page | Author Goodreads Page | Author Amazon Page Welcome to fellow author Jason Dias, author of Sanguine Vengeance, The Worst of Us, Endpoint of Sentience, and more.  Previous interviews with Richard Bamberg, Rob Chansky, P.R. Adams, and Megan Rutter are also available. 1. Your book starts out with a character, Jaye, who feels she isn’t human because she was,

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Think Like a Librarian: The Stanley Parable, by Davey Wreden and William Pugh

I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. …             By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, Link The Stanley Parable is a video game, not a book. 

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Think Like a Librarian – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark

I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view.  Here are the other posts in the series. …                   The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a short novel set in the period

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Think Like A Librarian – Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado

I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view.  Here are the other posts in the series. … Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories that centers around the horrific in a kind of fairy-tale way. 

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Think Like a Librarian: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain

I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view.  Here are the other posts in the series. … Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a war novel about the Iraq War.  The characters are caught on a Fox News camera

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Think Like a Librarian: True Grit, by Charles Portis

I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view.  Here are the other posts in the series. … True Grit is a Western adventure story first published in 1968.  Readers who are looking for a tale of the good guys

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Think Like a Librarian: The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope

I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view.  Here are the other posts in the series. … The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure story from 1894.  Unlike a lot of the fiction written in that time period and

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