Joni Richards Bodart
Autor de The World's Best Thin Books: What to Read When Your Book Report is Due Tomorrow
Sobre El Autor
Joni Richards Bodart is the reference librarian and computer liaison for the Woodbury Branch Library of Denver Public Library System and adjunct professor of library and information services at the University of Denver
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Conocimiento común
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Booktalk! : Booktalking and school visiting for… por Joni Richards Bodart
Found while browsing the public library. Somewhat dated, but plenty of principles and ideas.
It's not bad; I was just hoping for better. This is more a review of hundreds of VA vampire, zombie and other monster tales, particularly those more recently written. The author says she focuses on those that are "more complex" (p.29); in other words, here are summaries of the best ones. The theme: "Every society creates the vampires it wants or sometimes deserves", but there is not much explication of the theme. It's an ok book,perhaps even a good book, if you are scouting for what to read next in the YA vampire world but the cover is simply false advertising. The initial history of vampire fiction was intriguing. Perhaps the inclusion of charts would have helped. There's a lot of data to read through.… (más)
This was a cool book. I always psychoanalyze books that I write, but never ones that I read.
Note: I skipped large portions of this book, in which series/books that I HAVE NOT READ were discussed.
Note: I skipped large portions of this book, in which series/books that I HAVE NOT READ were discussed.
two of my booktalks are included in here! one of my first publications!
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 16
- Miembros
- 128
- Popularidad
- #157,245
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 24