WK2 Appeal Factors

Week 2: Assignment 1
Read the NoveList article on Appeal Factors by Neal Wyatt.
Week 2: Assignment 2 Using mainly appeal factors rather than plot summary, write annotations on your blog for two books which you’ve read and enjoyed.
 Week 2: Assignment 3Visit a colleague’s blog (see the Blogroll panel to the right) and suggest two titles which they might enjoy based on their postings. You may find these two titles via NoveList etc. but do not spend longer on these than you would with a customer.

My Picks:

TITLE: NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU

AUTHOR: JULY, MIRANDA

DATE: 2007

Pacing: quick, winding, naively poetic

Characterization: genuine, realistic, intimate, queer, caring, strong-willed, dysfunctional

Storyline: Collection of short stories that center around anything from odd relationships with      neighbors, contemplating self, stalking and all the peculiar instances that can make up our lives.

Language: 1st & 3^st person

Setting: Nevada

Detail: pretty light

Tone: light, offbeat humor, lonely, empathetic, annoyance, clever girl, wonder-filled

Learning/Experiencing: relationships, disaffection, realization of short comings and self absorbed.

FYI: Author Website: http://mirandajuly.com/ (Yes, check it out, I know you'll feel better about yourself if you do.)Also she seems to create a website for some books as well. Umm interactive, fun times.  Here's the site for the book I'm gonna talk about now: http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/
First off: Why i was interested in this book: It's a collection of short stories...I'm one of those fans of short stories.If you aren't familiar with Miranda July's writing or films, she's def on the quirky side, like the far side.She's simultaneously cute, hilarious and scary and brutally truthful.  When I think about July, I think about myself and a really good Saturday: happy, relaxed sporadically productive and inside my own little world, that I may or may not crawl out of.

TITLE: WINTER BONE

AUTHOR: WOODRELL, DANIEL

DATE: 2006

Pacing: quick, gritty and to the point

Characterization: realistic, determined, fearless, caring, strong-willed, dysfunctional

Storyline: Young girl must struggle through hardship (neglect, abuse, poverty) to find her father and save her family.

Language: prose-y, intense, 3^st person

Setting: Ozark back-county, Missouri, well described, familiar, current, exact

Detail: lots of imagry, landscape

Tone: dark, depressing, suspense, Midwestern plight.

Learning/Experiencing: Ozarks, rural living, Midwestern drug culture, family relationships

TITLE: THE REENACTMENTS

AUTHOR: FLYNN, NICK

DATE: 2013

• Pacing:
"chapters" if you wanna call them by that name were never more that a page or two, most were mere reflections, thoughts or musings.
• Character: realistic, emotional, reflective, pondering, philosophical, open, yet may not be completely honest (but then, that usually makes things more exciting)
• Storyline: cinematic, The experience of watching and being a part of the creation of a movie of a book about the author.
• Language: intense, 1^st person
• Setting: well described, familiar, current, exact
• Detail: kinda sporadic, as the author has written a couple of books and numerous poems on this topic
• Tone: inspirational, humorous, child-like, realistic, memoir/journal feel.
  Learning/Experiencing: movie-making, homelessness, personal struggle, loss, death, addiction, mental illness, recovery, Boston