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Do you read book reviews? Do you let them change your mind about reading/not reading a particular book? I’ve subscribed to the NYT Book Review for a number of years and, off and on, a variety of other book review (Bookforum) and book-oriented (The Believer) publications. And, of course, I have a number of book [...] Tim June 24th, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, reviewing | Category: Book Memes | One comment |
 Print This Post |  Email This PostThere’s a bit of a lull in my book review schedule as the ones I am slated to review don’t start hitting bookstores until January and I don’t like reading a book too many weeks before it gets published. As a result, I’ve been pretty much reading whatever strikes my fancy lately and it’s [...] Tim December 8th, 2009 | Tags: Books, reviewing | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostLike two months ago, the “books to review” stack is piling up again. As a result, this month’s s bibliolust is limited to books I will be reviewing in the coming weeks: A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties, Robert Greenfield — Greenfield has long documented [...] Tim May 1st, 2009 | Tags: bibliolust, Books, reviewing | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostSo, someone’s come up with another list of the most annoying clichés book reviewers use. There’s 20 of them compared to the last list, which contained “seven deadly words” for reviewers. So, how big an offender am I? Here’s what a search of the 158 posts in my “Book Reviews” category shows: Gripping — [...] Tim March 16th, 2009 | Tags: reviewing | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostYou can find plenty of opinions, both good and bad, on book reviewers. Likewise, there’s lots of ideas out there about what a review should or shouldn’t do. This past week SF author David Louis Edelman gave his thoughts on what authors want from reviewers. Here’s the list with some of his [...] Tim August 17th, 2008 | Tags: reviewing, writing | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostIt’s kind of a puzzle. How does a book reviewer review a how to book on book reviewing? More than other reviews, the reader may judge the book solely by the review itself. After all, since the reviewer just get done reading about writing book reviews doesn’t the quality of the review reflect [...] Tim June 23rd, 2008 | Tags: Book Reviews, Books, nonfiction, Review Copy, reviewing | Category: Book Reviews | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostSeems that book reviewing “rules” and ideas are showing up in a variety of blog posts recently. Last weekend, Author Jeff VanderMeer, who also occasionally reviews books, weighed in with his thoughts on book reviewing as a whole (and lists some of the posts that prompted his thoughts). He lists eight things he tries [...] Tim April 1st, 2008 | Tags: Books, reviewing | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostPrompting a bit of attention in the book blogosphere this week is a NY Times blog post on the Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing. At first glance, I thought it unlikely I had sinned by using the words (poignant, compelling, intriguing, eschew, craft, muse, lyrical). When I checked, though, I have committed [...] Tim March 27th, 2008 | Tags: language, reviewing, writing | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostThe results of a National Book Critics Circle survey in which I participated are in. And evidently I am largely in step with contemporaries when it comes to issues in the “ethics” of book reviewing. You can look at the full survey results but here’s a few highlights: More than three-quarters of those surveyed (76.5%) said [...] Tim December 10th, 2007 | Tags: reviewing | Category: A Reading Life | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostIt’s always interesting to see how people respond to criticism, constructive or otherwise. Some authors who feel stung publicly blast reviews of their work. Or you could be like Michael Crichton, who has set the book blogging world abuzz. Reportedly, his new book gives a child rapist with a small penis the [...] Tim December 18th, 2006 | Tags: Books, reviewing | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed |
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