25.3 - mstan's Task: Different Selves, Different Tales

[Cindie]

mstan wrote: "Cindie wrote: "For option 1, can I read the mocking bird next door, which is about Harper Lee, and of course, the other book would be To Kill a Mockingbird one of my all..."

It just was released -- hopefully the link will be updated before I post.

Thanks!

[mstan]

Cindie wrote: "mstan wrote: "Cindie wrote: "For option 1, can I read the mocking bird next door, which is about Harper Lee, and of course, the other book would be To Kill a Mockingbird..."

Hi Cindie
If you would like to provide me with the details I can help add them to the book as I'm a GR librarian. However, I was just checking if the edition you meant was The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee (released July 15 2014) instead, as the information on that link looks more comprehensive.

[Peebee]

I don't need approval, just want to vent!

I had the perfect author for this task, Rainbow Rowell, who writes both young adult and adult books, and had both a new adult book coming out this summer, and a young adult book from last year my library book just got in stock. She's one of my favorite authors, so it seemed like an obvious choice.

Since the adult book (Landline) was just released earlier this month, I haven't been paying attention to the genres. But now 30-some odd people have shelved it as "young adult," (putting it on the home page) even though it's a book about a married couple in their late 30s. There is nothing young adult about it, except that the author has previously written a couple of young adult books.

Her author bio says this, in fact:

Rainbow Rowell writes books. Sometimes she writes about adults (ATTACHMENTS and LANDLINE). Sometimes she writes about teenagers (ELEANOR & PARK and FANGIRL).

So very very frustrating! It's my least favorite part of the challenge....being stuck with the genres Goodreads users choose, even when they are dead wrong.

[Lisa]

Peebee, I am almost finished reading Landline and it is definitely not a young adult book. In addition, if you check your library website, it is shelved with general fiction not YA, like Eleanor & Park.

[Peebee]

Lisa wrote: "Peebee, I am almost finished reading Landline and it is definitely not a young adult book. In addition, if you check your library website, it is shelved with general fiction not YA, like Eleanor &..."

No, I know -- I just read it as well. But to keep things simple for the moderators, we are stuck with whatever Goodreads users shelve it as, even if they are wrong.

I think people who haven't read it yet must have gone ahead and shelved it based upon their awareness of RR as a young adult author. I'm almost tempted to write everyone who has mis-shelved it and ask them to unshelve it but that would just be taking the challenge a bit too seriously....

I can certainly find something else, but when you're getting down to the end and have books identified for everything remaining, it's just frustrating to have to shuffle everything around because people are just wrong (and it's not something "fixable" by a librarian).

[Peebee]

The same thing happened with Sara Shepard's new book The Heiresses. She's well known for the Pretty Little Liars YA series, so of course her new adult book has more people shelving it as YA than adult.

I got temporarily excited when I got a notice that The Heiresses ebook was on sale for $1.99 today, so I could get this book cheaply and catch up on the PLL series too (I'm a couple behind because there weren't so many tasks this time that required reading books in series) but then I came to Goodreads to have my hopes dashed again!

[Andy]

For Option # 1 Can I use this book "G" is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone byNatalie Hevener Kaufmanfor the biography part? It is primarily a biography of Grafton's fictional character Kinsey Millhone, but there are interviews with Grafton and chapters on Grafton's writing style and her place in the development of the mystery novel. If not, I'll reread A is for Alibi to go with W is for Wasted which I just finished. These were written in 1982 and 2014 respectively and use option 3.
Thanks,Andy

[mstan]

Andy wrote: "For Option # 1 Can I use this book "G" is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone byNatalie Hevener Kaufmanfor the biography part? It is primarily a biography of Gr..."

Hi Andy, I'll approve this as from the synopsis, it's evident that Grafton herself is also a focus of this piece of work. I also note that two users have shelved it as biography.

[Andy]

mstan wrote: "Andy wrote: "For Option # 1 Can I use this book "G" is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone byNatalie Hevener Kaufmanfor the biography part? It is primarily a bi..."

Thanks!

[Dee]

Peebee wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Peebee, I am almost finished reading Landline and it is definitely not a young adult book. In addition, if you check your library website, it is shelved with general fiction not YA, l..."

have a question i na case like this - could you have gotten genre approved to have no young adult etc on the page when you first looked; same as having a genre?

[Peebee]

Dee wrote: "Peebee wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Peebee, I am almost finished reading Landline and it is definitely not a young adult book. In addition, if you check your library website, it is shelved with general fi..."

Yes, except I never looked at the genre before the book was released (it came out July 8, and by the time I checked, YA was on the home page already.)

And of course, now that I moved everything around, the YA genre is not appearing on Landline's home page (as of this second anyway -- I saved a screencap though, just in case) so can I get it approved?

Can't believe this might work out after all! Gotta love Goodreads....

[mstan]

Peebee wrote: "Dee wrote: "Peebee wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Peebee, I am almost finished reading Landline and it is definitely not a young adult book. In addition, if you check your library website, it is shelved wit..."

As of the time of this post, there's no YA on the main page for Landline.