W2A1 - Novelist Appeal Factors - I liked learning about the three different approaches, or ways, of working with appeal.  The second and third ways are interesting because they seem to streamline and simplify the RA process.  One approach was modeled by Joyce Sarick - grouping books under four areas of appeal: adrenaline, intellect, emotion, and landscape.  I can easily place myself in two of these categories - adrenaline first, then intellect - which again has me thinking I should be giving science fiction a shot (really?...).   The other approach is Nancy Pearl's idea called "the doorway method." This approach groups the way readers enter a book: through the story, setting, character, or language.  I'm definitely NOT a character person.  I found that out when I read "The Language of Flowers." I hated it because it was all character, no real change of scenery, no suspense, no climax or building of plot...  It read to me like "a day in the life" kind of story, and all the days in her life were depressing and dreadful.  Needless to say the book dragged on for an eternity.  I apparently enter a book through the story or setting; I'm not really interested in the language.   Both approaches keeps it simple, which is what I will remember.  Glad to have learned this:).