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”

 

• what i’m reading now

  
  Eat, Live, Run — Authority: 503
  A few of you have been asking about my book reviews lately and I don’t blame you—I feel like it’s been forever since I last posted one! The truth is, I just haven’t really been reading much lately (hides face in shame). I know, I know! I’ve been a bad reader. I’ve just been so busy finishing my own book ...
  16 hours ago

• Honor’s Paradox, by P.C. Hodgell

  
  Bookgeeks — Authority: 114
  P.C. Hodgell’s Jame is back, tumbling down flights of stairs, off of horses, and into and out of the haunted spaces of Rathillien. She is finally nearing the end of her time at Tentir, the school where the Kencyrath send their people to learn the arts of war, and survive, or not, on their own. Jame has been the ...
  20 hours ago

• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

  
  Bookgeeks — Authority: 114
  The concept of the “Great American Novel” has always seemed to me like nationalist navel gazing.  Aside from an unwavering desire to brand its cultural products (witness a vast number of films prefixed with the word “American”), I’ve always felt there was something triumphalist about American refusal to be ...
  21 hours ago

• Book Review :: Good Things I Wish You

  
  Lit&Leisure — Authority: 100
  A. Manette Ansay’s prose is the comforting arms of a familiar lover. In the afternoon I read Good Things I Wish You , I was immediately home and nodding agreement with her beautiful language. It wasn’t the roller-coaster ride of discovering something new, but a gentle cadence that is completely fulfilling, ...
  1 day ago

• Willing to Write

  
  Everybody Means Something — Authority: 97
  Dickens at his Desk Sometimes ideas that move my thoughts along come totally unexpectedly. I recently read a review of a book on willpower by Baumeister and Tierney and bought it on impulse so I  obviously needed to read it. I expected it to shed some light on personal change of the kind I’d come across in ...
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• Revitalizing Your Eyes Ceaselessly

  
  Blozend Health — Authority: 121
  You need to read what Vision Without Glasses is going to tell you all about if you want to know the truth about your eyes. Not everybody thinks about the consequences of glasses or contacts, but its vital you think about these things. Once your eyes go theres no improving them, so you have to do what you can before ...
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• Zero Percentile–2.0, Missed IIT kissed Gurgaon

  
  Books, Life n More — Authority: 92
  Sorry for going missing from this space. Been tied up with hundred & ten things which I will share in the coming week. Please bear with me for some time and in the meanwhile here is a book review :-) Title:          Zero Percentile–2.0, Missed IIT kissed Gurgaon Author:      Neeraj ...
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• BOOK REVIEW: Reckoning by Jeaniene Frost

  
  Book Chick City — Authority: 112
  Title: Reckoning (Night Huntress #0.5)  Author: Jeaniene Frost  Publisher: Avon Publication Date: November 2011 (originally part of Unbound Anthology published in September 2009) Ebook: 100 Pages  Genre: Urban Fantasy  Source: My own copy  Reviewed by Laura ...
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• Book Review: Bloodland

  
  Word Dreams... — Authority: 107
  Bloodland: A Novel by Alan Glynn My rating: 4 of 5 stars British author Alan Glynn’s third thriller “Bloodland” (Picador 2011) is about a rising star who’s death captures the imagination of the nation (if not the world). The fun begins when struggling journalist Jimmy Gilroy is asked by a publisher ...
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• Peter Englunds "The Beauty and the Sorrow": Book Review

  
  Blogtrotter — Authority: 104
  This “intimate history of the First World War” blends twenty accounts by those who fought, and those who nursed, watched, waited, and were imprisoned. Peter Englund provides a narrative framework which avoids the usual summations of battles and fronts; a chronology for each year of the conflict precedes the ...
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• How to Have a H.E.A.R.T. For Your Kids - Chapter 2

  
  Broad Horizons — Authority: 104
  This week over at The Pelsers , were talking about Chapter 2 of How to Have a H.E.A.R.T. For Your Kids . Chapter 2 is the "E" of H.E.A.R.T. and stands for Enrich Your Marriage Here are some of the quotes that spoke to me in this chapter:  Do you live like you actually love your spouse, or even like him? pg 64 ...
  2 days ago

• A Review: The Destiny Discovery, Find Your Soul’s Path to Success by Michelle Casto

  
  theselfimprovementblog.com — Authority: 119
  By Irene Conlan - The U.S. Army, in one of their recruiting commercials sings, “Be all that you can be.” In her Book, Destiny Discovery : Find Your Soul’s Path to Success by Michelle Casto tells you how to do that – be all that you can be and does it in a way designed to bring out the best in you. This book ...
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• A glimpse into the world of fashion during the hippie revolution…

  
  The Dark Phantom Review — Authority: 92
  If you’re interested in the private lives of people who make the fashion world, how they started and how they got to the top, you might want to pick up a copy of Karen Moller’s memoir, Technicolor Dreamin’: The 1960′s Rainbow and Beyond. In her fresh and engaging voice, award-winning fashion designer and ...
  2 days ago

• book review: What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage

  
  nomadreader — Authority: 106
  The backstory: I first read Pearl Cleages debut novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day , in 1997. I remember the day I picked it up at the library, filled with excitement that my favorite playwright had written a novel. I had ridiculously high expectations, and Pearl exceeded them all. Shes my favorite ...
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• Alfie Jones And A Change Of Fortune by David Fuller

  
  Dragons and Fairy Dust — Authority: 113
  Alfie Jones and a change of fortune is the first book by David Fuller and is aimed at kids aged eight to eleven, particularly football mad boys.  Alfie Jones is in fact a football mad boy himself and plays every … Continue reading →
  2 days ago

• Book Review: Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering

  
  The Social Frog — Authority: 103
  Untied by Meredith Baxter Genre: Biography, Memoir ISBN: 978-0307719300 Published: March 01, 2011 Publisher: Crown Archetype Pages: 304 Synopsis “I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man.  After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it.  ...
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• A Conversation About AMERICAN DERVISH by Ayad Akhtar

  
  The Book Lady's Blog — Authority: 102
  Published January 9, 2012 by Little, Brown American Dervish is about Hayat Shah, a young Muslim boy growing up in the American midwest in the 1980s, trying to make sense of his faith and his identity. Hayat’s parents have raised him in Muslim culture but have not given him any religious training.  When his ...
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• Book Review: Article 5 by Kristen Simmons

  
  The Book Smugglers — Authority: 523
  Title: Article 5 Author: Kristen Simmons Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Tor Teen Publication Date: January 2012 Hardcover: 384 pages New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned. The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral ...
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• Balancing Multipule Careers? – You’re Not Alone

  
  At Home Sense — Authority: 111
  More and more folks are in new careers, working in multiple fields and finding life to be much more fulfilling now than in their previous 9-5 gigs.
  2 days ago

• Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus - Book Review

  
  Ted Lehmann's Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms — Authority: 403
  Gary Marcus, a psychologist who teaches at New York University, opens his wonderful new book Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning with a simple question: “Are musicians born or made?” Of course simple questions dont have simple answers. In seeking to answer his question, Marcus took ...
  2 days ago

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