Final Reader Results

Reader #3
1. What is the last book that you read?
Blue Collar Blues by Rosalyn McMillian

2. Who are some of your favorite authors? Please list three.
a. Jacqueline Thomas
b. Rosalyn McMillian
c. Benilde Little
d. Bebe Moore-Campbell

3. “Tell me what kind of reading experience you’re looking for”?*
a. Love stories with comedy and happy ending
b. Self- help, devotional and inspirational

4. What are your favorite genres? Please highlight your top two answers.
Romance
Adventure
Suspense
Women’s Lives and Relationships

5. Are you willing to try a new genre? If so, please indicate genre below?
a. Yes, mystery and chick lit

6. Are there certain genres/types of books that you do not like to read? Please list below?
a. Horror, street lit

* Question obtained from Ross and Chelton, Reader’s Advisory: Matching Mood and Material, 2001.

Suggestions

1. Faith
A Change is Gonna Come
By Jacqueline Thomas

2. Inspirational
Have a Little Faith
An anthology with a story by Jacqueline Thomas

3. Mystery
Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell Novel
By Karen G. Bates

4. Romance
The Nicest Guy in America
By Angela Benson

5. Romance (this is a read alike compared to Benilde Little using Rich African Americans)
Just for You
By Doreen Rainey

6. Romance; Women’s Lives and Relationships
The Ideal Wife
By Jacqueline Thomas

Reader comments
“I would read all of these, I love Jacqueline Thomas.”

Reader #5

1. What is the last book that you read? Currently reading Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter

2. Who are some of your favorite authors? Please list three.
None at this time

3. “Tell me what kind of reading experience you’re looking for”?* Comfort and learning; educational reading; biographies; sometimes, likes to read nonfiction

4. What are your favorite genres? Please highlight your top two answers.
List provided NA; enjoys biography, educational materials, and poetry

5. Are you willing to try a new genre? If so, please indicate genre below?
Chick lit once in while

* Question obtained from Ross and Chelton, Reader’s Advisory: Matching Mood and Material, 2001.

Suggestions

Autobiographical
1. A Hand to Guide Me
By Denzel Washington

2. The Pursuit of Happyness
By Chris Gardner

Literary/Historical Fiction
3. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
By Mildred D. Taylor
Shw has enjoyed excerpts from the book.

Educational and autiobiographical
4. Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny
By Hill Harper

Women’s Lives, Chick Lit

5. The Yummy Mummy
By Polly Williams
NO

Life Stories

6. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
By Mitch Albom
She had already read this book.