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Currently ReadingRecently Read | Seems 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 to [...]            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 a few [...] 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%) [...] 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 same name as [...] Tim December 18th, 2006 | Tags: Books, reviewing | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostA couple of my regular stops in the blogosphere that also review books had some comments this past week I could plainly identify with. Grumpy Old Bookman led off a post of short reviews acknowledging a problem similar to one of mine: “It has finally dawned on me that if I am ever to mention [...] Tim September 1st, 2006 | Tags: blogs, reviewing | Category: A Reading Life, Blog/Internet | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostCritical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle board of directors, recently questioned whether it was a conflict of interest for online book reviewers (like me) to provide links to sites like Amazon for the books they review. I think Kevin Holtsberry put it wonderfully: All kidding aside, or at least most kidding [...] Tim June 16th, 2006 | Tags: blogs, Internet, reviewing | Category: Blog/Internet | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostAs some know, I was on the board of the Sioux Falls Film Society back when it actually sponsored an honest-to-god film series. I always felt somewhat insecure about my knowledge of film and wanted to find a good introduction to and groundwork for the subject. I think I found it in Christopher Null’s Five [...] Tim July 1st, 2005 | Tags: Book Reviews, Books, nonfiction, Review Copy, reviewing | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |         The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
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