Hello! My name is Arianna Cook and this is the blog I'll be using for Readers' Advisory Spring 2020!

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Special Topics Paper Summary: For my special topics paper, I decided to focus on the horror genre. I wanted to highlight what was important about the genre as well as what makes horror its own genre separate from others. In the first part of my paper, I talk about the appeal and the characteristics of horror like the setting (classic settings like haunted houses or dark woods) the pacing (usually quick with abrupt turns), the characters (loners, evil people, normal people in crazy situations), the style (how authors will use different fonts and book setups to further immerse readers), and story lines (horror usually follows the evil on the surface but also the deeper questions about human nature tackled within horror). The second part of my paper focuses on the history of horror from the early tracings of the genre (early legends and classic works like Beowulf ) to the modern day zombie and post-apocalyptical aspects. I talk about classic authors like Mary Shelley and Edgar Allen P...
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