Introduction to the Reading Journal

This is a reading journal created as part of my final project for LIS 9382 - Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library. Below you will find:

• An introduction to appeal factors.

• Entries for 13 books or sets of books read during the first half of 2015:

  • Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by Katha Pollitt

  • The Making of Cabaret by Keith Garebian

  • A Bang, a Whimper and a Beat: Industrial Music and Dystopia by Karen Collins

  • Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada by Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria Love (Eds.)

  • Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader by Rebecca Dean and Patrick Keilty (Eds.)

  • The Makeup of RuPaul's Drag Race: Essays on the Queen of Reality Shows by Jim Daems (Ed.)

  • In a Queer Time and Place by J. Jack Halberstam

  • Goth's Dark Empire by Carol Siegel

  • Dreamblood Duology by N.K. Jemisin

  • Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner

  • Thinking Kink: The Collision of BDSM, Feminism and Popular Culture by Catherine Scott

  • Milkweed Triptych by Ian Tregillis

  • Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Click below to read the formal report.