More Testing

This is to see if I can do this!!

Monday, December 7, 2009

An Author's perspective

One of my favourite authors is Alexander McCall Smith. I tried all the sites listed on the module page and only two featured this author. One was BookBrowse and the other was Google authors@google which led to talks@google. BookBrowse only had a written interview though which i didn't bother to trail through as i have done enough reading today! The google one was a You Tube interview and there were many of them. The one I chose to listen and watch was about the author's life in Botswana and Scotland and how he uses the lives of the people in these countries to form the basis of the characters of his books. The video was extremely interesting and it was great to obtain first hand background knowledge concerning the writing of Smith's books. I loved it.
I think this site would be really useful for patrons to know about as I have 'often' tried to encourage them to read the "Ladies Detective' stories and haven't had a great response. Some patrons think they are too 'simple' and wouldn't be very enjoyable. I believe visiting sites such as authors@google would persuade them otherwise!

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