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FROM: Patricia Gibson <[removed]@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca>
REC'D: 5/26/01, 1:28 PM

Hi All,
Some time ago I asked for - and received - suggestions for a 17 yr. old
male reluctant reader. Now, he has read through the list and is asking for
more! He particularly likes stories about 'losers' i.e. the guy that
doesn't get the girl. He has read most of Nick Hornsby and he particularly
liked J.M. Hawes 'White Merc With Fins' and Chbosky's 'The Perks of Being a
Wallflower.' He wants books in the Adult section of the library (as opposed
to the YA section) but he is also intimidated by the size of some the books
in the Adult section (hence his veto when I suggested Alex Garland's 'The
Beach'). Can any of you suggest anything? Also, sometime back, there was a
list of books for Reluctant Adults. I mistakenly thought that it would be
automatically posted to the Fiction L booklist file. Can the person who did
the work repost the list? Thanks so much.

Patricia Gibson
Readers' Advisor
TNRD Library System
100-465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca
http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca

FROM: Mary Zajac <[removed]@nileslibrary.org>
REC'D: 5/26/01, 2:54 PM

You might try Rupert Thomson's DREAMS OF LEAVING--a kind of sex, drugs, and
rock'n'roll novel with a young man investigating the mystery of his birth
and his parents. It's wry in some of the same ways Hornsby is, if a bit more
edgy. I loved it when it came out, and it's still one of my favorites.

Mary Zajac
Niles Public Library District
Niles, Illinois

-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia Gibson [[removed]@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca]
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:08 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Adult Reluctant Reader


Hi All,
Some time ago I asked for - and received - suggestions for a 17 yr. old
male reluctant reader. Now, he has read through the list and is asking for
more! He particularly likes stories about 'losers' i.e. the guy that
doesn't get the girl. He has read most of Nick Hornsby and he particularly
liked J.M. Hawes 'White Merc With Fins' and Chbosky's 'The Perks of Being a
Wallflower.' He wants books in the Adult section of the library (as opposed
to the YA section) but he is also intimidated by the size of some the books
in the Adult section (hence his veto when I suggested Alex Garland's 'The
Beach'). Can any of you suggest anything? Also, sometime back, there was a
list of books for Reluctant Adults. I mistakenly thought that it would be
automatically posted to the Fiction L booklist file. Can the person who did
the work repost the list? Thanks so much.

Patricia Gibson
Readers' Advisor
TNRD Library System
100-465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca
http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca

FROM: Jonathan Pearce <[removed]@mediaone.net>
REC'D: 5/26/01, 3:36 PM

on 5/26/01 10:08 AM, Patricia Gibson at [removed]@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca wrote:

> Hi All,
> Some time ago I asked for - and received - suggestions for a 17 yr. old
> male reluctant reader. Now, he has read through the list and is asking for
> more! He particularly likes stories about 'losers' i.e. the guy that
> doesn't get the girl. He has read most of Nick Hornsby and he particularly
> liked J.M. Hawes 'White Merc With Fins' and Chbosky's 'The Perks of Being a
> Wallflower.' He wants books in the Adult section of the library (as opposed
> to the YA section) but he is also intimidated by the size of some the books
> in the Adult section (hence his veto when I suggested Alex Garland's 'The
> Beach'). Can any of you suggest anything? Also, sometime back, there was a
> list of books for Reluctant Adults. I mistakenly thought that it would be
> automatically posted to the Fiction L booklist file. Can the person who did
> the work repost the list? Thanks so much.
>
> Patricia Gibson
> Readers' Advisor
> TNRD Library System
> 100-465 Victoria Street
> Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
> [removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca
> http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca
>
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Patricia, see and evaluate Balona Book excerpts. The reading level ranges
from Grade 5 to 10 (?). The material might have appeal. (You won't find
the books on any bookstore shelves, though.)

--Jonathan from Balona 95232
currently doing a final re-write on Heavier than Air,
#11 in the Balona Series: http://www.balona.com

FROM: Christina Kaulbach-Stosuy <[removed]@acsu.buffalo.edu>
REC'D: 5/29/01, 12:40 AM

Subject: Re: Adult Reluctant Reader

try Rick Moody's GARDEN STATE or Don De Grazia's AMERICAN SKIN.

recommended by my husband who is doing his English Masters thesis on
contemporary youth culture through the texts of Dennis Cooper, someone I
would not necessarily recommend to a seventeen year-old.

Christina Kaulbach-Stosuy
Librarian Trainee at Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Children's
Dept. and newbie to the Masters in Library Science program at SUNY-Buffalo

FROM: Mary Van Dyke <[removed]@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 5/29/01, 1:32 PM

although not about a loser--he might enjoy MONTANNA 1948 by Larry Watson.

Mary Van Dyke
Glenview (IL) Public Library

FROM: [removed]@mln.lib.ma.us
REC'D: 5/30/01, 9:51 AM

Try Cowboy Angst by Jason Emmens or The Exes by Pagan Kennedy.


Megan Flynn
Wellesley Free Library
Welllesley, MA

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