When You Need a Good Suggestion

It's not rocket science, how we library staff help you find a good read (or listen). Most of us are readers, so we can easily pull some of our favorite titles from our memories. We even post some to our other blog: staff picks. Other times, we're not sure of your likes, so we ask some key questions about what you've liked in the past, what kind of story you prefer. We can then draw upon the reading preferences of our co-workers, since we really do talk books to each other. Or we have tools like Novelist. You can easily access Novelist through our webpage. Novelist is most useful for listing all the works by a particular author, with brief summaries. With some time you can delve deeper into the depths of Novelist and find read-alike lists for authors you have read everything by, or for titles you just loved. Sometimes, you need to provide more information, since often it's not the locale or the plot that you loved, but rather the characters who were developed so finely that they became your friends and you regretted the ending of the story. There are several very good websites where even more suggestions are provided. Even Amazon lists other books customers selected when you look up a particular title. But we're here, and we just love talking with you about books. All you have to do is ask!