#booktalking

the future of capitalism

mandatory reading for my major

French positivist philosophy of the 19th century

4 ebooks about post-1989 transformation in Poland (the one about The Voting, the one with new music genres, the Unemployment and the one about TRAINS)—also courtesy of the library

I was probably... fourteen or so.

I laughed, and he asked "what was so funny?"

Trying to give all the context to someone else who hadn't read what I had, was frustrating, not least because his attention drifted while I was explaining, probably badly, and too much at length.

Ten years later I was librarianing at a junior high school. Did you know that librarians learn and practice how to talk about books? We call it booktalking. Like the "elevator pitch" for your resume or the project you want funding for, but it's more whetting someone's interest for specific stories, or finding out from that one person enough of what they like so you can be a matchmaker for books and readers...

Forest of Secrets is such a ridiculous spike stake-wise. Like, second book was pretty intense but third one introduces the biblical cataclysms. Not a single thing goes right for these cats I swear