Week 3 - Assignment 3

Conversation # 1

I went right to our "You Might Also Like These..."  on the catalog under the title Eat, Pray, Love and would suggest Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I chose that title over the other suggestions because not only did it match a number of issues from Eat, Pray, Love, but it said that the main character deals with their own internal struggles. The customer said what she liked the most about Eat, Pray, Love was how the main character "sheared her inner thoughts"

Conversation # 2

To answer this one I used a number of sources, even Google. I kept finding titles that were like Twilight, so with Google I searched for vampire titles not like Twilight. Dracula came up more than once, but the appeal factors did not seemed to be exactly what the customer wanted. So, I checked for other titles like Dracula and looking at the appeal factors found the title Historian that in many ways had the appeal factors,
fast-paced, creepy, suspenseful, ccompelling, richly detailed, stylistically complex, that the customer was looking for. And no mention of romance. I would also still suggest Dracula.

Conversation # 3

I used the title River of Doubt to look up read alikes on Novelist. Then I checked the appeal factors for the ones recommended to make sure they matched the readers appeal factors. With that I found that War by Junger was a good suggestion. When discussing with a colleague the another one that she thought would work well was Perfect Storm also by Sebastian Junger.

I like the fact that when you use appeal factors you can really be more sure that it is a title or author that will better match the readers interests and not just recommend on the fact that it has been determined to be a read alike.