Both texts (Borderland:
Crossing between Fiction and Nonfiction in Readers’ Advisory by Jennifer
Brannen and Reading Nonfiction for
pleasure: What Motivates Readers? by Catherine Sheldrick Ross) said the
same thing in substance. While libraries physically and clearly separate
fiction from non-fiction, readers do not always make that distinction, especially
with narrative fiction with story and characters development. If a reader reads
for “pleasure”, most of the time s/he will not care about the separation
between fiction and narrative nonfiction. What really attract a reader is the appeal
factors and interest, not books categorization. During a reader’s advisory
interview, librarians should focus on those, the appeal factors, and suggest
titles from both nonfiction and fiction genres. This way, readers can decide
what they are in the mood to read, independently of the books classification.
The idea beyond those two texts is the distinction between nonfiction and
fiction is not the same as the distinction between pleasure reading and
fact-finder reading. People read fiction and nonfiction for pleasure.
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