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		<title>A Love of Reading: The Second Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adams, Robert.  A love of reading: the second collection, more reviews of contemporary fiction.  New York:  McClelland &#38; Steward Ltd., 2003. 
In A Love of Reading: The Second Collection, literary critic Robert Adams presents the reader with reviews of 14 books.  It is evident when reading the reviews that these are books that he is passionate about, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=juliedevries.wordpress.com&blog=1109074&post=28&subd=juliedevries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Lust and More Book Lust &#8212; Pearl, Nancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Avid readers tend to be interested in other people&#8217;s opinions about books, whether it is a qualified opinion or not.  People are interested to know what everyone else is reading, and what it was about a particular book that someone liked.  I think many readers would enjoy a book like More Book Lust, (Nancy Pearl).  Pearl is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=juliedevries.wordpress.com&blog=1109074&post=27&subd=juliedevries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://juliedevries.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/book-lust-and-more-book-lust-pearl-nancy/</link>
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		<title>People do in fact read nonfiction for pleasure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We learned in class tonight that many users read nonfiction for pleasure and do so not to meet specified needs or research.  As librarians we must be careful not to interpret nonfiction questions as not necessarily reference questions, but perhaps as readers&#8217; advisory questions.  Typically, advisers approach nonfiction almost exclusively according to subject. 
As pointed out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=juliedevries.wordpress.com&blog=1109074&post=19&subd=juliedevries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://juliedevries.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/people-do-in-fact-read-nonfiction-for-pleasure/</link>
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		<title>Reading Non-Fiction: July 31st, 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As librarians, we are well aware of how libraries treat non-fiction materials, and that is in a way that is very different from fiction materials. In reading an article by Dr. Catherine Ross, Reading Nonfiction for Pleasure: What Motivates Readers? in Nonfiction Readers&#8217; Advisory ed. by Robert Burgin, I began looking at nonfiction in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=juliedevries.wordpress.com&blog=1109074&post=15&subd=juliedevries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://juliedevries.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/reading-non-fiction-july-31st-2007/</link>
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		<title>Black Hole: Charles Burns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a graphic novel called Black Hole by Charles Burns for class this evening.  Burns was both author and illustrator of Black Hole.  Black Hole is about a group of Seattle teenagers of the 1970&#8217;s are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring and incurable plague that spreads only through sexual contact.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=juliedevries.wordpress.com&blog=1109074&post=17&subd=juliedevries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://juliedevries.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/black-hole-charles-burns/</link>
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		<title>Graphic Novels Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Graphic Novels Now, Francisca Goldsmith
Less than two decades have passed since the popular notion was that graphic novels were simply comics, which had no place in the library. This was because &#8220;comics&#8221; were not considered to be &#8220;real&#8221; books, and because nobody with any &#8220;intellectual sense reads them anyways&#8221; (Goldsmith, 1). Well, it turns out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=juliedevries.wordpress.com&blog=1109074&post=16&subd=juliedevries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://juliedevries.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/graphic-novels-now/</link>
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		<title>The environment for indirect RA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[June 5th, 2007:  Promotion and indirect RA – Book clubs and social reading
As discussed in class, passive readers&#8217; advisory, non-mediated readers&#8217; advisory and indirect readers&#8217; advisory services are all ways to promote reading.  Librarians are responsible for creating and manipulating the environment to perform adequate readers&#8217; advisory services for readers (not such an easy feat).  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=juliedevries.wordpress.com&blog=1109074&post=13&subd=juliedevries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://juliedevries.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/the-environment-for-indirect-ra/</link>
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		<title>The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy   Booktalk #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are at all interested in either Elephant Winter or Water for Elephants, try The White Bone, by Barbara Gowdy.  This is a novel told from a very different perspective from either of the books we just visited.  
The White Bone It is told entirely from the perspective of African elephants, following [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=juliedevries.wordpress.com&blog=1109074&post=12&subd=juliedevries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://juliedevries.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/the-white-bone-barbara-gowdy-booktalk-3/</link>
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		<title>Water for Elephants &#8211; Sara Gruen  Booktalk #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gruen, Sara.  Water for Elephants.. Toronto: Harper-Collins, 2006.
He didn’t really expect them to show up—they never really do, and when they do show up, it seems like a chore, and they have a constant eye on their watch, waiting for five o’clock as if it can’t come soon enough.  “They” visit their dad irregularly.  It’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=juliedevries.wordpress.com&blog=1109074&post=11&subd=juliedevries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://juliedevries.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/water-for-elephants-sara-gruen-booktalk-2/</link>
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		<title>Elephant Winter &#8211; Kim Echlin Booktalk #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Echlin, Kim. Elephant Winter. Toronto: Penguin, 1998.
Elephants are among the world’s most potentially dangerous animals, capable of crushing and killing many other animals, including humans.  As I mentioned earlier, elephant social communication and perception is a relatively new concept and this pioneer research is highlighted in a novel that seems more real than fiction, Elephant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=juliedevries.wordpress.com&blog=1109074&post=10&subd=juliedevries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://juliedevries.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/elephant-winter-kim-echlin-booktalk-1/</link>
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