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”

• Brennan Manning’s Patched Together

  
  Thinking Out Loud — Authority: 129
  First, a confession.   I have not read Brennan Manning’s signature title, Ragamuffin Gospel. So I didn’t really know what I was getting into when I was sent a copy of Patched Together: A Story of My Story releasing in February by David C. Cook. Second, another confession.  I tend to associate Cook with ...
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• REVIEW: Power Play by Nancy Warren

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 141
  Dear Ms. Warren: Emily Saunders was in Elk Crossing for “a wedding she didn’t want to attend with far too many of her family and friends asking nosy questions about her own continuing single status” when her hotel becomes infested with bed bugs. Another traveler at the hotel is Jonah Betts playing in his Old ...
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• Thursday Evening Book Review

  
  Author Scoop — Authority: 144
  From the GAME CHANGERS series, God’s team gets its due in THE GREATEST PLAYS IN DALLAS COWBOYS FOOTBALL HISTORY . With tacit review endorsement, The New York Times presents its lists of 100 Notable Books of 2009 . The University of Utah radio has an audio review of Penelope Lively’s, FAMILY ALBUM . LITTLE ...
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• Green Lantern #48 – Review

  
  Weekly Comic Book Review — Authority: 436
  By Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist) The Story: The delegates of each lantern corps finally come together on Okaara.  As they all work through their differences in order to confront the Black Lanterns, secrets of Atrocitus’ past come to light.  (Get it?  “Light”? No?  Fine, forget it.) ...
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• Uncanny X-Men #517 – Review

  
  Weekly Comic Book Review — Authority: 436
  by Matt Fraction (writer), Greg Land (pencils), Jay Leisten (inks), Justin Ponsor (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: The X-Men attempt to stave off the Predator X attack. What’s Good: This is an action comic, pure and simple and in that capacity, it delivers; it’s big, bloody, and explosive. ...
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• What You Should Have To Get Small Business Grant

  
  B2B Markeplace — Authority: 490
  Small business grants is a swell chance for you if you are dreaming about your own small business day by day during years! Small business grants give you a chance to gather money with your small business! Small business is the most popular dealing not only in the United States of America but all over the world. ...
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• Top 10 Books

  
  The Hindu - Property Plus - Chennai — Authority: 201
  Bharatiya Behugara Pakistanadalli by Mohanm Lal Bhaskar, translated by D.N. Srinath, Soumya Prakashana, Rs. 90 The Last Lecture by Randy Pash, translated by S. Umesh, Dhatri Prakashana, Rs. 100 Mahammad Ali Jinna by Pratap Simha, ...
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• Humanism, in the lyrical mode

  
  The Hindu - Property Plus - Chennai — Authority: 201
  From poetry to politics — some interesting reads in Kannada
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• Deciding On A Franchise Can Be An Overwhelming Prospect But By Breaking It Down Into Stages A Good Decision Can Be Reached

  
  B2B Markeplace — Authority: 490
  First of all it is logical to be clear about just what a Franchise Opportunity provides you at it’s best. It enables you to run your own business in a specific sector to a tried and tested business model provided to you by the Franchisor. It should allow a reasonable profit to be made and give you flexibility in ...
  11 hours ago

• Blog Tour and Book Review: Book Review: The Year of Living Like Jesus: My Journey of Discovering What Jesus Would Really Do by Ed Dobson

  
  Quiverfull Family — Authority: 504
  When Ed Dobson heard a radio interview with A.J. Jacobs, author of the bestselling  The Year of Living Biblically, he was inspired. Touched by the dedication of someone whom isn’t a believer digging into the Word and literally living it out sparked a desire to do the same thing in his own life – only this time ...
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• Demon Bound: Caitlin Kittredge Rocks. Jack Winter not so much.

  
  Fantasy Literature News & Interviews — Authority: 134
  Demon Bound by Caitlin Kittredge Demon Bound is the second book in Caitlin Kittredge ’s Black London series . Kittredge fans will be happy to know that she has once again spun a fascinating yarn that is loaded with creative nuances and twists. Her dark imagination is a breath of dank, moldering, fetid air ...
  13 hours ago

• Book Review: Counterfeit Gods

  
  Words of Grace — Authority: 130
  Title:  Counterfeit Gods:  The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters Author:  Timothy Keller Publisher:  Dutton, 2009; 210 pp. $19.95 Recommendation (4-star scale):   I first started thinking of idolatry as something more than a metal or wood structure made with ...
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• PRODUCT REVIEW: Look Out Tarantino, here I come!

  
  Alternative-Read.com — Authority: 473
  CyberLink PowerDirector 8 Deluxe (PC) How to Install This is so easy to install I thought Id first run through theprocess: Slip in the disc, and click PowerDirector for a screen thatwill give you a short introduction and three icons, which lead to a"Read Me" file, a 126 page PDF "User Guide", and "Install". ...
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• Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol - Book Review

  
  Unreality Shout — Authority: 477
  Its been a few years since Dan Brown dropped a new book on us, so I was initially shocked when I walked past Waterstones and discovered The Lost Symbol . Of course, in the intervening years, Browns "Indiana Jones of Symbology" - Robert Langdon - has become a major movie franchise, so naturally Langdon is the hero of ...
  15 hours ago

• “Attacked And Left For Dead Eventually To Lose His Legs Made Him A Better Person Says Ian Colquhoun”

  
  MySweetLife.Net — Authority: 155
  For anyone suffering the loss of a limb they will have experienced the gamut of human emotion. Yet when gifted Scottish author and military historian Ian Colquhoun suffered the loss of two limbs, his legs, in a vicious attack he said it was the best thing to happen to him. After surviving a mind-numbing attack that ...
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• Graphic Novel Review: Madame Xanadu – Volume 1 Disenchanted

  
  The Book Smugglers — Authority: 568
  Title: Madame Xanadu – Volume 1 Disenchanted Author: Matt Wagner Art: Amy Reeder Hadley Genre: Graphic Novel/ Fantasy Publisher: Vertigo Publishing Date: July 2009 Paperback: 240 pages Stand Alone or series: This is a self contained collection with the first 10 issues of the new Madame ...
  16 hours ago

• REVIEW: His High-Stakes Holiday Seduction by Emilie Rose

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 141
  Dear Ms. Rose, As I mentioned in my review of “Bedding the Secret Heiress,” it was the excerpt for this book which got me to get both of them. After my disappointment with “Heiress” I seriously debated whether or not to just call it a day with this series since Trent Hightower hadn’t impressed me as being ...
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• Pump Up Your Book Promotion’s November Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 19

  
  Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours — Authority: 127
  Welcome to Day Fifteen of Pump Up Your Book Promotion’s November Authors on Virtual Book Tour ! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Leave a comment at their blog stops and you could win a FREE virtual book ...
  18 hours ago

• Review of Guardians of the Flame

  
  SilverPen Publishing — Authority: 124
  60 second review of Guardians of the Flame: The Warriors by Joel Rosenberg, the book that got me started playing Dungeons & Dragons. Click here to view the embedded video. Buy it from Amazon.com Related posts: Review of Warcraft Archive Dragons of Summer Flame Review of Lockpick Pornography
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• The Process Involved To Make a Mind Map

  
  B2B Markeplace — Authority: 490
  To make a mind map, a person leaves a linear, left-brain view of the world and begins to engage the right side of their brain instead. This means making use of more visual thinking, linking relationships in webs rather than straight lines. After spending years using the educational methods taught in society for so ...
  19 hours ago

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