Week Two, Assignment Three: RA to a colleague

"Visit a colleague’s blog and suggest two titles which they might enjoy based on their postings.  You may find these two titles via NoveList etc. but do not spend longer on these than you would with a customer."

Okay.  My semi-randomly chosen colleague -- who I have never met before tonight (in case there are grumblings of foreknowledge from the Groundlings) -- is Randalee G. -- though to be honest, I have met her.  I probably spent more time selecting my "randomly chosen" colleague than I did making the recommendations -- Randalee actually mentioned two of her favorite books, which someone would do if you were trying to readerly advise them. 

Randalee mentioned Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth and the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.  I have read neither, which will make this RA even more entertaining to you, the viewer. 

Randalee's write-ups indicate characters and setting are particularly strong appeal factors for her, and I deduce that she enjoys the intellectual challenge of puzzle solving, as well.  From these factors I think she might enjoy the original Sherlock Holmes stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which have good characters (who will surprise you some, if you only know them from the movies and various TV series), unique and evocative settings (the Dartmouth moors, and of course foggy London itself, among others), and are rift with conundrums, murders and threats of violence -- who WOULDN'T like them?  Which makes recommending Sherlock Holmes almost a cheat.

From her enjoyment of the characters and medieval setting of Pillars of the Earth, Randalee might like Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles -- the trilogy about King Arthur.  These are set much earlier in British history than Pillars, but with similar intent, namely, to tell modern readers what it Really Might Have Been Like to Live in Medieval Britain.



And now, for no reason whatsoever: Shetland ponies in sweaters.