more resources!

Here are a couple more websites that might be of some help with our advisory efforts:

Reading Trails is a website where users can create a trail (list) of books with a common theme (Melancholic meanders, Fallen Women of the 19th Century, Curiosities of Human Behavior). Find a theme to see what the user recommends. The site gets more interesting when you discover intersections where two (or more) threads pick the same book, which allows you to turn down the new trail if you like.

For example, the trail "Fallen Women of the 19th Century" has 5 books on the trail. There are five intersections at the book "Anna Karenina" which include the trails "Adultery Trail" and "Russian Works that Rock." Click on one of those trails and you can head in a completely different direction, subject-wise.

It's a young site, launched last November, but it seems like there are lots of Reader's advisory opportunities there.


No Flying No Tights is a website/blog dedicated to graphic novel reviews. The main site (designed for teens) has a variety of subject headings (superheroes, humor, non-fiction, action, etc) to help get you to the kind of graphic novel you are looking for. A variety of reviewers (some library-related, others not) give brief but helpful reviews.

There are two other companion sites, The Lair ("here to help distinguish between those graphic novels and comics that walk the line between teen appeal and more adult content") and Sidekicks (for kids up to age 12) that can be accessed through the home page.

Since many of us (or at least me) know little about many of the graphic novels out there (and there are lots of them out there) this is a good site to get some reviews to help guide the patron in the right direction.

Andrew