Week 9

Assignment One- Check!

Assignment 2-
Romance writers have been using book trailers for a few years, so they're not as foreign to me as to some other people. Very rarely do I find a book trailer that captures the essence of a book. Some are too long, some are just shots of the book cover with music in the background and someone reading the blurb, and some show content that isn't related to the book at all. One of the few that I found when I randomly searched "book trailer" on youtube that actually fits the book is one for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. (video here)

Insofar as using book trailers, I don't think that I would ever use a book trailer when doing reader's advisory, because if the trailer mis-represented a book, I could loose a customer before I even had them.

Assignment 3-
I really enjoyed the BMB training, but I would recommend that in the future, something with so many assignments and links to explore should be given a longer time period to complete. To thoroughly explore the links and various sites, you need to spend more than two minutes on each site page. And if not an initial extended time period, then access to the assignments from outside of work would help.

Overall, even though I am not a blogger nor do I have the passion for blogging,  BMB provided a lot of information and sites and links that I wouldn't have stumbled across on my own and I think that some of the will be useful in the future. I can also admit that through all of my "thorough exploration" of all the links and sites, I have added 10+ titles to me "to read" list. :-)