Skip to main content

A Note and a Thank You

I wanted to say thank you to everyone who filled out the GreenBeanTeenQueen survey! Your kind words and feedback were so helpful and made me smile!

I wanted to let you know of a couple of changes coming to GreenBeanTeenQueen thanks to your feedback.

-I will start adding book pairings to the titles I review, since this seems to be helpful to readers, teachers and librarians. These aren't always read-alikes and a copy of the book reviewed, but instead books I think that would pair nicely in a book club or book discussion or things I think a reader of the reviewed title would also like. Most of these suggestions will be books I have read (and hopefully reviewed) on GreenBeanTeenQueen, but some might not have gotten reviews yet or are older reads, or are books that I have had suggested to me by my teens or other bloggers and I trust their opinions.

-I asked if you'd like to see Book Talk Ideas, but then when I started adding them to my reviews, I realized I was just repeating my "About the Book" section. So I'm going to tweak my "About the Book" a bit and try to make that something that you could copy and use as a book talk if needed. Hopefully that's helpful to my fellow librarians and teachers.

-There's lots of mixed opinions on book ratings, and since I haven't found the perfect system and I like it and several of my readers like it, I'm keeping my book ratings as is and will continue to rate books. I'll give half ratings and sometimes a .25 or .75 because it is really really hard to find the perfect rating. But I'll round up on Goodreads and Amazon and my rating scale meanings will remain 1-5.

-I got Mr. GreenBeanSexyMan to serve as a Reader Selector for the Gateway committee, so that means he'll be reading more YA-(haha-sucker....I mean-yay, what a great husband!) so I hope to get his reviews of the books he reads. Plus, you guys can help me pester him into reading more YA-any suggestions for a great YA fantasy series he should read and review?

-Look for more posts on life as a teen librarian, my adventures in the library, and programs that I run at my library. I love these posts and it seems that my readers do too-yay!-so I'll start including more library related info.

Thanks for all the feedback and thanks a million for being a reader of GreenBeanTeenQueen-you guys rock!

Comments

  1. Has he read the Pellinor series yet? My husband and I both loved it.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Can't wait for the pieces about your job! I'm so jealous of your job :)

    ReplyDelete
  3. Sounds great! I think book pairings will be great.

    P.S. I won the What's Your Status Contest, but I can't DM you because you don't follow me on Twitter.

    ReplyDelete
  4. These are some great enhancements you have planned!

    I'm sure Mr. GreenBeanSexyMan has already read Hunger Games so I won't suggest that. But he might enjoy Rise of Renegade X not high fantasy but comic book type stuff. Sisters Red was also pretty good and may be more appealing to the male population. The Mercy Falls series by Maggie Stiefvater, though that may be a little to romance oriented.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I love hearing from other readers! Share your thoughts and chime in!

Popular posts from this blog

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Rating: 5/5 Stars Genre: Realistic Fiction Release Date: 2/26/2013 Add to Goodreads About the Book: Eleanor and Park are both misfits. When new girl Eleanor sits next to Park on the bus, they don't want anything to do with each other. But over the course of the school year, things change. It starts with comic books and becomes a friendship and a romance that the two will never forget. You never forget your first love. GreenBeanTeenQueen Says: Have you ever had a book sit on your shelf that you've heard so much hype about? And you think that books sounds like it would be right up your alley, but you're in a reading slump and you're afraid to give it a try unless it fails? I knew Eleanor and Park sounded like my perfect book, but I was in such an after committee slump that I even though I knew this book would help, I just didn't want to be disappointed. I should have known better because Eleanor and Park was perfect and everything that I had hoped it wou

Contact Me

  I love to hear from fellow readers and librarians! Send me an email to say hello! You can reach me at greenbeanteenqueen (at) gmail (dot) com

Post Downton Abbey Reading List

Downton Abbey is over (with a shocking and frustrating ending!) and now I'm suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal. I've got a reading list full of books that I hope will satisfy my post-Downton Abbey cravings and I thought I'd share what's in my pile and get suggestions for other after Downton reads. Here's what I hope to be reading this year (a mix of YA and adult titles):                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A couple Julian Fellowes reads:                And a few re-reads:                    Edited to add: What's on your Post-Downton Abbey reading list?