{"id":567,"date":"2011-08-22T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=567"},"modified":"2011-08-22T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T03:59:00","slug":"booklist-spotlight-on-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/booklist-spotlight-on-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Booklist Spotlight on Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In awesome news, this month&#8217;s<em> Booklist <\/em>has a spotlight on horror fiction. For those not in the know, <em>Booklist<\/em> is a professional review journal produced by the American Library Association. Librarians looking for must-have titles consult journals like <em>Booklist<\/em> to build their collections. In this case, Booklist provided top 10 lists of horror fiction for both <a href=\"http:\/\/booklistonline.com\/Top-10-Horror-Fiction-2011\/pid=4944006\">adults<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/booklistonline.com\/Top-10-Horror-Fiction-for-Youth\/pid=4901427\">teens,<\/a> and a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/booklistonline.com\/Read-alikes-Zombie-Time\/pid=4939039\">favorite zombie titles<\/a>. I encourage you to check out their choices and see if you agree. I&#8217;d love to see what else you think they ought to have included! Unfortunately, the editor is going on a leave of absence for several months, but it might be fun to send our thoughts on to <em>Booklist<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to everybody who made these lists. I&#8217;d like particularly to congratulate Madeleine Roux, a first-time author who also attended my alma mater, for making the list of top zombie titles with her novel <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterlibrarian.com\/zombies.htm#Allison_Hewitt_is_Trapped_by_Madeleine_Roux\">Allison Hewitt is Trapped<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In awesome news, this month&#8217;s Booklist has a spotlight on horror fiction. For those not in the know, Booklist is a professional review journal produced by the American Library Association. Librarians looking for must-have titles consult journals like Booklist to build their collections. In this case, Booklist provided top 10 lists of horror fiction for<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/booklist-spotlight-on-horror\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[276,87,241,83,277,108],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-allison-hewitt-is-trapped","tag-american-library-association","tag-booklist","tag-horror-fiction","tag-madeleine-roux","tag-zombie-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}