Tuesday Thingers – Reviews

Published on by Margaret

This week’s question from Marie is

Most of us book bloggers like to write book reviews- if we don’t love to write book reviews- but here’s today’s question. When it comes to LT (and your blog), do you review every book you read? Do you just review Early Reviewers or ARCs? Do you review only if you like a book, or only if you feel like you have to? How soon after reading do you post your review? Do you post them other places- other social networking sites, Amazon, etc.?

I review most books that I read, although in the summer this year I came to a full stop with reviews, so there are several I read that have no reviews. One of the reasons for writing this blog was to write about the books I’ve read – I hesitate to call my posts reviews and some are only a few comments on points that have interested me or quotations that I want to remember. I’ve found that I remember a book much better if I’ve written about it, so I try to write something about each one.

I’ve only had a few books from the Early Reviwers Programme and have reviewed each of them. Sadly I didn’t receive the last one I snagged so I’m hoping the one I snagged in November will arrive soon.  I’m a little behind on reviews at the moment as I have three to do. I like to review books soon after I’ve finished them, but it’s not always possible. It helps if I’ve made notes as I read but sometimes I’m so caught up in the reading that I don’t manage it.  I’ll review a book whether I liked it or not, but as I’m quite picky about the books I choose there aren’t many that I actually dislike. I don’t finish reading books I dislike, unless it’s a review copy and then I try to write a balanced review saying what I liked, what I disliked and why.  

I’ve posted 17 reviews on LibraryThing – some are the full reviews and some are links to my reviews on this blog. I can’t decide which is better as it can be off-putting to leave LT to read a review on another blog. My local library has a facility on line to post reviews and I have posted one on there which is a shortened version of my blog post. I have also posted one review on Amazon a few years ago before I had my blog.

8 thoughts on “Tuesday Thingers – Reviews”

  1. It is interesting to see who likes to post full reviews and who likes to post links to reviews. I wonder if my library has a place for reviews. I like that idea!

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  4. I counted up this morning, and discovered I have five reviews to do! Not sure how I got so far behind, but I’m hoping to get them all done before 2008 is history. I don’t really like calling my reviews “reviews,” either – they’re really just personal jottings.

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  5. Sometimes I get caught up with other things and can’t review a book immediately. I’ve found that using Post-It flags to mark significant passages as I read helps sharpen my memory–much quicker than taking the time to scribble notes as I read.

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  6. I like that idea of being able to post reviews on the library site. I’ll have to look at your LT books when I get a moment, I find it gives me a real sense of the person. And thank you for visiting my blog.

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  7. This has been such an interesting topic this week – I just love reading everyone’s answers. I only put a couple of reviews on LT and only received one through Early Reviewers. I’ll have to remember to put more of them on LT and the other book sites.

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  8. I love your idea of taking notes as you read! I should do that. I have dog-eared the last two books because of sections that I LOVED and wanted to be able to comment on.

    Here’s my Thinger!

    :) Wendi

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