Pearl on Recommending Books
In this Kalamazoo Gazette piece about Nancy Pearl and the action figure modeled on her, Pearl discusses the art of making good book recommendations.
"’One of the tricks that I help librarians think about is that the reason you like an author is not because of the specific plots of the books,’ Pearl said. ‘You’re excited about an author because of the feeling that you get when you read that author’s writing. … It seems like it would be an “oh, yeah, duh” kind of thing, but it really takes a whole lot of training to help librarians do a wonderful job at recommending books to patrons.’"
With weather like those of us in the upper Midwest and Northeast are having, it’s a good time to think about staying indoors with a good book. Need more reading ideas? How about 25 good American novels or some banned books?
