1. I am looking for a book by Laurell K.
Hamilton. I just read the third book in the Anita Blake series and I can’t
figure out which one comes next!
The next book is The Lunatic Café. I choose
this book after using NoveList searching Laurell K. Hamilton, I then clicked on
the series tab. I selected Anita Blake: vampire hunter making sure not to click
on the graphic novel series of the same name.
2. What have I read recently? Well, I just
finished this great book by Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer. I really liked
the way it was written, you know, the way she used language. I wouldn't mind
something a bit faster paced though.
I would add Charles Frazier’s Thirteen Moons
to the conversation. I came across this book by searching for Prodigal Summer,
then selecting the tabs relating to the writing style of the book and doing
another search. This book was in the top three, but I selected it because of the
description that Barbara Kinsgsolver wrote a lot about simple living and nature
in Prodigal Summer, and Frazier’s book also features nature strongly.
3. I like reading books set in different
countries. I just read one set in China, could you help me find one set in
Japan? No, not modern – historical. I like it when the author describes it so
much it feels like I was there!
Golden Arthur’s Memiors of a Geisha is the
most popular historical fiction work that results from a keyword search of
Japan with a historical fiction filter. The writing style is noted by Novelist
to be richly detailed so it could meet what the patron is looking for.
4. I read this great mystery by Elizabeth
George called Well-Schooled in Murder and I loved it. Then my dentist said that
if I liked mysteries I would probably like John Sandford, but boy was he creepy
I couldn't finish it! Do you have any suggestions?
One thing the patron might not know is that
Well-Schooled in Murder is the third book in a series about the same detective
and assistant, I would let her know about A great deliverance (1st book) and
Payment in Blood (2nd book), from the same series. Another book series I might
suggest would be the Hanne Wilhelmsen
novels from Anne Holt, they appeared in the read-a-likes and have a 4.5
star rating on good reads.
5. My husband has really gotten into zombies
lately. He’s already read The Walking Dead and World War Z, is there anything
else you can recommend?
I think he would like I Am Legend by Richard
Matheson, it also was turned into a big budget film experience like the other
titles you listed. It shares the survivalist theme with both of those titles
also.
6. I love books that get turned into movies,
especially literary ones. Can you recommend some? Nothing too old, maybe just
those from the last 5 years or so.
This is a fairly open request, there are a
lot of books that get turned into movies, one thing that came to my mind
immediately Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Ready Player One. I also looked
at IMDB to see which books had turned into movies recently, I think the Great
Gatsby would be a good recommendation if the “too old” part of the question
referred to the movie instead of the book.
7. I love thrillers but I hate foul language
and sex scenes. I want something clean and fast paced.
I found a forum on good reads called “clean
reads” where it was noted that the Robert Liparulo Dreamhouse series are both
clean and suspenseful. The book has a 3 star popularity on NoveList and 4/5
stars on good reads.
I find books to read mostly from
recommendations with my friends and family. I also tend to walk through
libraries and bookstores and judge books by their covers. I guess in my mind
I’m looking for a particular genre or mood, I’ll probably google search the book
on my phone when I’ve landed on one if I am not familiar with the author, if
the author’s name rings a bell, I’ll probably leave with it without checking
google. This was my first time using Novelist, and it seemed powerful. My
biggest hurdle was finding a book that was “clean”, it seemed Novelist wasn’t
the best option for that. It would be great if they added in a filter for sex
and profanity!