Assignment 1- Review the article "The RA Conversation" by Neal Wyatt- check!
Assignment 2- Listen to podcast of Nancy Pearle- check!
Assignment 3-Conversations
Librarian: If you liked "Eat, Pray, Love", I'd recommend you try "Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy" by Frances Mayes. She's the gourmet cook and travel writer who buys a villa in Italy. For your book club, it has a lot of different appeal because there's romance, DIY home renovations and recipes. Plus, it was turned into a movie so you can watch it as a follow-up and compare the movie and book.
Librarian: If you want something a little more fast-paced but a lot less angsty, I have two series to recommend to you. The first series gets a little graphic, both gore and sex-wise later in the series, but if that doesn't bother you, you can try Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Series. Anita is a federal marshal (who's also a necromancer) who has the legal authority to hunt down any supernaturals that break the law and to kill them. Vampires and weres play a big part in this series seeing as how one of her possible future love interests is the Master of the City, Jean Claude.
If you want something grittier, you can try Kim Harrison's "The Hallows" series. The main character is witch Rachel Morgan and she works for the supernatural version of the FBI, but when she quits, her former agency puts a hit out on her and she's forced to team up with Ivy, a former colleague and living vampire in order to survive. Then the author throws in a snarky pixy sidekick, escaping from a businessman/crime lord/drug dealer, and some super dicey situations to keep the story hopping.
Librarian: Have you read "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson? It's the stories of two men during the 1883 Chicago World's Fair. One of the men is the architect who was responsible for the Fair's construction and the other is a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor luring people to their deaths. It's been billed as having "magical appeal" while exposing the "horrifying dark-side" of 19th century Chicago.
