NFYA Reader's Advisory
May. 25th, 2009 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maribouReality Rules! A Guide to Teen Nonfiction Reading Interests, by Elizabeth Fraser
I feel like this book should've been about twice as thick and all the extra pages put into the shortest chapters of the existing text.... I kept thinking stuff like "hey but what about THIS obvious and awesome book" (it came out in 2008. There is NO mention of anything Dave Eggers and/or 826 Valencia does... and it mentions the music spin-off of Nancy Pearl's excellent Book Lust, but neither Book Lust nor the follow up version FOR TEENS, Book Crush, gets a nod...) and also thinking stuff like "did we really need recommendations for MULTIPLE diet books in a 200-ish page book?" I don't think it's a bad book so much as that my expectations for this series were set unnaturally high by HOW awesome the GLBTQQ volume was... there were quite a few extremely interesting annotated reviews of books I'd never heard of before in here, and it really is a Sisyphean task to cover all of YA nonfiction in 200 pages.
(103/275)
I feel like this book should've been about twice as thick and all the extra pages put into the shortest chapters of the existing text.... I kept thinking stuff like "hey but what about THIS obvious and awesome book" (it came out in 2008. There is NO mention of anything Dave Eggers and/or 826 Valencia does... and it mentions the music spin-off of Nancy Pearl's excellent Book Lust, but neither Book Lust nor the follow up version FOR TEENS, Book Crush, gets a nod...) and also thinking stuff like "did we really need recommendations for MULTIPLE diet books in a 200-ish page book?" I don't think it's a bad book so much as that my expectations for this series were set unnaturally high by HOW awesome the GLBTQQ volume was... there were quite a few extremely interesting annotated reviews of books I'd never heard of before in here, and it really is a Sisyphean task to cover all of YA nonfiction in 200 pages.
(103/275)
