Week 9

Part II
After watching a handful of trailers for some upcoming teen books, I would have to say that they tend to be hit or miss in terms of being successful. The ones that are the shortest, around 30 seconds tend to be the best, in my opinion. There is usually just information to get the watcher hooked or not. Additionally, I really think the production value/budget for each varies greatly, which in turn, affects how successful it is. I would have to say I would not find myself using them in RA.

Part III
I found this training to be really information and helpful especially in the area of subgenres. I enjoyed the wealth of resources presented and having to post on them. This forced me to follow and visit sites I had either written off or sites I was just unaware of.

Week 8

Part III

Food-940

• Keeping the feast: one couple's story of love, food and healing in Italy by Paula Butturini (945B)

Memoirs-Biography

• The good girl's guide to getting lost:a memoir of three continents, two friends and one unexpected adventure by Rachel Friedman (910.4F)

History-900s

• What we knew: terror, mass murder and and everday life in Nazi Germany: an oral history by Eric Johnson (943.086J)

Faith-200s

• A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "Master" by Rachel Held Evans (277.3E)

Part IV

Keeping the feast: one couple's story of love, food and healing in Italy by Paula Butturini

• In this poignant recounting, a struggling marriage, pushed to the edge because of physical and emotional peril, is renewed and rediscovered by way of a healing and reawakening trip to Italy. The author and her husband are news correspondants in Romania where they are both physically injured, leading their already fragile relationship to the breaking point. It is upon deciding to take a trip to Rome, where and when their love is rekindled and their vibrancy returned. Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun will enjoy!

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "Master" by Rachel Held Evans

• In this witty, funny and, often time, thought-provocking look into what the bible describes as the ideal woman, author Rachel Held Evans gives up all her preconceived notions of being a woman in today's world for a year of biblical womanhood. Gone is the idea of a split division of work and responsiblities and in are the notions of submission, obdeience and domesticity. Fans of theMary Beth Chapman's Choosing to SEE: A Journey of Struggle and Hope and Chicken Soup for the Soul series  will enjoy Evans short, all inclusive chapters and light tone.