Book Reviews

Book reviews is a popular tag because of the number of blogs that review books and the rise of so-called litblogs ("literary blogs").

Book reviews are an analysis of or commentary on a particular book or books or even a series of books. Book bloggers may review all genres or just specific ones, such as romance, science fiction or even graphic novels.

The popularity of book reviews also reflects changing times. Book reviews were long the almost exclusive province of weekly, biweekly or other periodic print publications. As book blogs increased, debate began about the value of blogs as a medium for and source of book reviews. Now, however, some stand-alone print book reviews are being downsized or shut down. The blogosphere may be the future for book reviews.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Book Reviews”

• Reading and listening

  
  Travels with Shiloh — Authority: 434
  Three books I’d like to quickly mention… Born to Run by Christopher McDougall : I saw McDougall on the Daily Show and heard about the Tarahumara while watching the show Last Man Standing .  This book came out during my fascination with my Vibram Five fingers (which I still think are amazing) and so may ...
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• DONT LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS written and read by Mo Willems

  
  Audiopolis, audiobook reviews — Authority: 122
  This whimsical picture book charges young listeners with carrying out the title task, despite being confronted by a pigeon who will do anything to get the wheel of the bus in his wingtips.. Download the soundreview as an mp3 file. Time 2:40 Add the Audiopolis podcast feed to your RSS Reader and have the show ...
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• Review: The Army of Tennessee by Thomas L. Connelly

  
  TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog — Authority: 125
  Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862 by Thomas Lawrence Connelly Product Details Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (September 2001) Language: English ISBN-10: 080712737X ISBN-13: 978-0807127377 Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, ...
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• Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell

  
  Pajiba — Authority: 688
  Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell Cannonball Read / Cher
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• Novella Review: Blind Spot by Meljean Brook

  
  The Book Smugglers — Authority: 575
  Title: Blind Spot (in the anthology Must Love Hellhounds) Author: Meljean Brook Genre : Paranormal Romance Publisher: Berkley Trade Publishing Date: September 2009 Pages : less than 100 Stand Alone/ Series: A standalone story set in the Guardian’s universe. Why did I read the book: I have ...
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• Ghetto Girl Book Club – Girl, Interrupted

  
  The Girl from the Ghetto — Authority: 120
  About a month ago I decided to start an in-home and online joint book club,  My first monthly  Ghetto Girl Book Club  will be held tonight – Tuesday November 10, 2009 from 7-9 pm.   If you can’t join us at my house, then at least join me online.  You’ll be missing out on my famous ranch, cheese and ...
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• [REVIEW] Vicious Circle – Linda Robertson

  
  Tez Says — Authority: 491
  Linda Robertson Vicious Circle (Persephone Alcmedi, Book 1) Simon & Schuster Pocket Juno (US & CA: 30th June 2009; Date; AU: 17th August 2009) Buy (US) Buy (UK) Buy (CA) Buy (Worldwide) Persephone Alcmedi is by no means a professional assassin, but she did kill a guy once. Now her secret is no ...
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• Following the Balibo Massacre’s Whale

  
  Scoop Review Of Books — Authority: 502
  Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor, by Tony ManiatySydney: Viking, 2009. Reviewed by MARCUS O’DONNELLEARLY on in Tony Maniaty’s Shooting Balibo we come across Herman Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni and John Dos Passos. We quickly get the message that this is as much a journey of the imagination as it ...
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• Book Review: Cleopatras Daughter by Michelle Moran

  
  Peeking Between the Pages — Authority: 132
  Michelle Moran has done it again! She has once again brilliantly woven fact with great story telling in Cleopatras Daughter . In Cleopatras Daughter we learn about the history of Marc Antony and Cleopatra as told by their children. I really enjoyed this novel as I didnt know much about Marc Antony and Cleopatra ...
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• Death: Its Better at DC

  
  Comic Fodder — Authority: 420
  Lets face it: if life is cheap in the real world, death is cheaper in comics. People come back from death so many times, Doctor Strange cant even remember if hes been to your funeral or not. But if you had to die, wouldnt you want it to hold more "oomph?" Which universe gives us the best bang for the coffin? Man, ...
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• Them Bones by Howard Waldrop

  
  Kittling: Books — Authority: 133
  Title: Them Bones Author: Howard Waldrop ISBN: 0-441-80557-4, Ace Science Fiction, 1984 Genre: Science Fiction/ Time Travel Rating: C+ First Line: "Theres a horse in the small mound," said Bessie. Its 1929 and archaeologists are digging in a mound in Louisiana when they find something very exciting: the skeleton ...
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• You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs

  
  The Girl from the Ghetto — Authority: 120
    I’ve been in love with Augusten Burroughs for a long, long time.  It started off innocently enough; his first book Running with Scissors kept flirting with me by winking at me every time I passed it in Borders.  I kept reading fantastic reviews of it and I knew  it was going to be a book I’d ...
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• The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger review by David Shulman (NYRB)

  
  Science, Culture and Integral Yoga — Authority: 410
  Generally, modern historians tend to stick to the terra firma of inscriptions, coins, the accounts of foreign travelers, and other precisely datable sources. There are obvious advantages to such a method, and we can certainly learn critically important things from such evidence; but one unfortunate byproduct of these ...
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• Believe It, Be It by Biggest Loser’s Ali Vincent Releases Today

  
  Diets in Review Blog — Authority: 553
  On April 15, 2008 Ali Vincent made history when she became the first female to win NBC’s hit weight loss reality show Biggest Loser . Ali had entered season five of Biggest Loser weighing 234 pounds, and was eliminated during the fourth week of competition. In a twist of fate that reality shows are known for, Ali ...
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• My Two-Year-Old Eats Octopus Teaches Balanced Eating for Kids

  
  Diets in Review Blog — Authority: 553
  When I was growing up, one of the many mantras in our house was “This is not a restaurant, you’ll eat what I fix for dinner or go to bed hungry.” That meant from the time I went off the bottle until I moved to college I ate what was served for dinner. I had meatloaf, tuna casserole, spaghetti, hamburgers, or ...
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• Book Review Monday: Moral Panics and Copyright Wars

  
  Patent Baristas — Authority: 415
  It is good that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good. ~ Thomas Babington ...
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• Book Review: The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas

  
  Panorama of the Mountains — Authority: 110
  Author : Donna Freitas Title : The Possibilities of Sainthood Publication Info : New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. ISBN : 9780374360870 Summary/Review : I’m not sure how this novel ended up on my “to read” list as it is definitely geared toward teenage girls.  All the same, I ...
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• Book Review: A Voyage Long & Strange by Tony Horwitz

  
  Panorama of the Mountains — Authority: 110
  Author : Tony Horwitz Title : A Voyage Long & Strange Publication Info : New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008. ISBN : 9780805076035 Previously Read By Same Author : Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War , Blue Latitudes & Baghdad without a Map and Other ...
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• The Lost Symbol

  
  ReadJunk.com — Authority: 140
  Author: Dan BrownPublisher: DoubledayPages: 528 pagesRetail Price: $16.47Buy on Amazon.comIn this follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, Robert Langdon takes a last minute trip to Washington DC to give a speech as a favor to a prominent Mason and his beloved mentor Peter Solomon. Langdon’s purpose in DC immediately ...
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• LOVE LEADERSHIP Alert: Love Leadership listed amongst bibliography of important leadership books

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 142
    LEADERSHIP Monday, November 9, 2009  Leaders as readers Staff Writer Posted: 11/02/2009 12:00:00 AM MST > By Joel Jones Leadership columnist Recently I had the pleasure of presenting two workshops on leadership to some of the participants in the Four Corners Conference ...
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