Giselle's Book Thoughts

  Listen, from the title alone you probably have some questions. I didn't think I was ever going to write about this topic but my blog is all about books and reading and the reality is that you can't really talk about reading and avoid fanfiction. Well, I guess technically you can because there is so much to talk about when it comes to reading but fanfiction is such an interesting topic that I refuse not to talk about it for one second longer.      To rewind a bit, if you're not familiar with fanfiction i'll give a brief explanation. Fanfiction is exactly what the name implies. A work of fiction written by a fan of a TV show, book, movie and so on, that includes characters, settings and more from that piece of work. To simplify even more, it is writings based on an existing piece of fiction. Fanfiction has no rules or boundaries, except of course the legal side where you cannot profit off of fanfiction because the intellectual...

I never thought about getting a certificate in anything related to social media. I did not know that companies like Hootsuite and HubSpot existed and I certainly never knew how much work actually goes into posting on social media, especially for an organization. I always assumed that someone had to go on the page and manually upload the post. I also thought that organizations just posted the same exact things everywhere without changing any part of it. In my eyes social media was not really a tool, it was just something that I would go on to have fun and I never took a look into what companies where actually doing. There is so much work going into these posts and all that work has not been in vain, because for many companies these posts have allowed them to reach their buyer persona and others who may be interested in their company. When the Hootsuite and HubSpot certifications were mentioned in my social media strategies class, I had a lot of questions and a lot of doubt that the...

When I was younger I would read all the time. I wish I could say that I first started reading because I liked to do it but that is just not the case. In elementary school there was a program in place that would reward a student for reading. After reading a book and taking a test about it, AR (Accelerated Reader) points would be given. For every 25 points, the student received a tag boasting the amount of points they have earned. If someone reached 100 or more points, they would be invited to the end of year pizza party. Needless to say, I worked really hard to get that invite. I would read anything that got me a lot of points. Short biographies on the presidents, any Magic Tree House book, the I Survived series. If the back of a cereal box would have gotten me points I would have read it. All this to say, that while I was reading a lot, I did not really absorb any of the information and therefore never really enjoyed reading. It was not until the fifth grade that I was introduced to ...

Banned Book Week Display: Corona Public Library     In an ideal world there would be no need for a banned book week, unfortunately that is just not the world that we live in. Let me rewind for a second. You might be asking, what is banned book week? Banned book week is an annual event that libraries all over the country participate in to highlight and bring awareness to the high number of books that have been banned in libraries and schools. While it usually takes place on the last week of September, this year it took place on Sept. 18- 24th. The books that are censored range from well known classics such as George Orwell's 1984 to more recently published books such as All Boy's Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson. The reasons as to why books are banned varies. To honor this week I visited my local library, the Corona Public Library, where I was able to read up on the books that are banned. I was also given the opportunity to guess the banned b...