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From: Sharon Grover <SGrover>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:56:41 -0500
Stephenie Meyers is hugely popular at my library, but I wonder if it isn't the mix of romance and vampires that makes Twilight appealing. As an avid vampire story reader, I felt that I waited a long time for that scary thrill (when it finally came, it certainly packed a big punch) and that's what makes me think perhaps the romance is pulling them into the story and making them stay for the scary bits.
Sharon Grover Head of Youth Services Hedberg Public Library 316 S. Main St. Janesville, WI 53545 608/758-6584 (Voice Mail) 608/758-6583 (FAX) sgrover at hedbergpubliclibrary.org
Today's Topics:
1. Horror Stories (Megan Schliesman)
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**Today we'll begin our discussion of the CCBC-Net topic for the second part of October: Horror Stories.
Stephenie Meyer?s hugely popular ?Twilight? series is the first vampire story many teens have read. What do those who find the book?s gothic qualities as appealing?or even moreso?than its romance read next?
And to what books do younger readers with whom you work turn--or do you turn yourself when offering up tales of horror or other scintillating scares?
Megan
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:56:41 -0500
Stephenie Meyers is hugely popular at my library, but I wonder if it isn't the mix of romance and vampires that makes Twilight appealing. As an avid vampire story reader, I felt that I waited a long time for that scary thrill (when it finally came, it certainly packed a big punch) and that's what makes me think perhaps the romance is pulling them into the story and making them stay for the scary bits.
Sharon Grover Head of Youth Services Hedberg Public Library 316 S. Main St. Janesville, WI 53545 608/758-6584 (Voice Mail) 608/758-6583 (FAX) sgrover at hedbergpubliclibrary.org
Today's Topics:
1. Horror Stories (Megan Schliesman)
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:56:41 -0500 From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman at education.wisc.edu> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Horror Stories To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <471E27C9.9070602 at education.wisc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
**Today we'll begin our discussion of the CCBC-Net topic for the second part of October: Horror Stories.
Stephenie Meyer?s hugely popular ?Twilight? series is the first vampire story many teens have read. What do those who find the book?s gothic qualities as appealing?or even moreso?than its romance read next?
And to what books do younger readers with whom you work turn--or do you turn yourself when offering up tales of horror or other scintillating scares?
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706 608-262-9503 608-262-4933 (fax) schliesman at education.wisc.edu www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net End of CCBC-Net Digest, Vol 27, Issue 14 ****************************************Received on Tue 23 Oct 2007 03:56:41 PM CDT
