Friday, April 26, 2013

Week One - assignments

I did pretty well on the timed quizzes - working in bookstores in my past helped. I was able to identify 23/24 of the adult titles, all except that stupid Dan Brown book. I knew it was him but couldn't seem to pull The Lost Symbol out of the recesses of my brain. It was a good reminder to buy replacements of the Dan Brown audiobooks for the system in preparation of his new title coming out next month. I didn't do quite as well on the children's books, getting only 13/20. I started well but then hit a mental block and couldn't seem to come up with any of the rest.

As for the sites, I'm going to select Salon - Books for the Recommended Links - Books. I already use Goodreads a lot, and EarlyWord daily, so I'll focus on one that I don't often consider. Mysteries are a bit of a black hole to me, so Stop, You're Killing Me should help me better understand a genre that I don't mind occasionally reading but rarely seek out.