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Reaching Reluctant Readers & Book Blogging Basics

Reaching Reluctant Readers & Book Blogging Basics. Jennifer Hubert Swan Westchester Library Association Annual Conference Tarrytown, New York. Who are the Reluctant Readers? Teens who are…. Too Tired Too Busy Too Scheduled Too Uninterested Too Involved Online Too_____________ TO READ!.

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Reaching Reluctant Readers & Book Blogging Basics

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  1. Reaching Reluctant Readers & Book Blogging Basics Jennifer Hubert Swan Westchester Library Association Annual Conference Tarrytown, New York

  2. Who are the Reluctant Readers?Teens who are… • Too Tired • Too Busy • Too Scheduled • Too Uninterested • Too Involved Online • Too_____________ TO READ!

  3. Booktalks • Gross-outs • Multimedia • Pairings • Playlists • Reality TV tie-ins

  4. Booktalks: Twitter “Cameron is either losing his mind to mad cows or taking the road trip of a lifetime. Who knows where he’ll end up? Going Bovine by L. Bray” “Both sides want her trust, but Isabel can’t believe anyone in New York during the Revolutionary War. Slave or free? Chains-LHAnderson”

  5. Programs & Contests • Anything but Reading • Book Buddies • Book Trailer Workshop • Brown Bag Books • Stupid/Weird Book Hunt

  6. Displays • As Good as Games • ARC Shelf • Don’t Shelve • Recommended by …Magazines • Roaming Bookmarks

  7. Book Blogging Basics “We can argue about characterization on Twitter, receive requests to critique whole novels on Facebook, or write a book blog that receives a wide monthly following. If that doesn’t show the power of young adult literature, I don’t know what does.” –Emma Allison, teenager.

  8. Why blog? • Personal fulfillment • Professional connections • Provide mobile reader’s advisory

  9. The Basics, A-C • Advertising • Audience • Books, Getting Them • Comments • Content • Cosmetics

  10. The Basics, L-P • Legalities • Organization • Promotion

  11. The Basics, S-T • Software • Time • Tone

  12. Alternatives to Blogging • Goodreads • Librarything • Amazon

  13. My Top Ten Book Blogs(all of these are also linked to Reading Rants: www.readingrants.com) • Bookends • Bookshelves of Doom • A Chair, a Fireplace & a Tea Cozy • Guys Lit Wire • The Hub (YALSA) • I’m Here, I’m Queer, What the Hell Do I Read? • I.N.K. • No Flying, No Tights • Reading in Color • Shelf Elf

  14. Thank you! Jennifer Hubert Swan, book nut Twitter:@ReadingRants jhubert@lrei.org

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