My original intent was to post a Book Review every Friday. However, after some research, I realized I wasn’t writing Book Reviews, but Book Talks. There’s a difference, you see. A Book Talk is a sharing to motivate someone to read a book. It’s informal and upbeat, and is not a book review, book report, or book analysis.
Examples of Book Talk blogs are:
A Book Review, on the other hand, follows a standard procedure and includes such essentials as:
- book title, author, copyright date, ISBN
- author’s purpose
- book’s theme and thesis
- author’s support of thesis
- evaluation of book for interest, accuracy, objectivity, etc.
- further information about the author
- summary, analysis, and comments on the book’s content
For a complete list of book review essentials, visit How to Write a Book Review.
Five Book Review blogs that do the job well are:
Oh, and just out of curiosity, which do you prefer, book reviews or book talks?
As always, thanks for stopping by,
I like the idea. There are so many reviews out there, opinions, but very few talks or discussions. Good for you. Looking forward to it.
Yes, Lee. There's a place for reviews, but I tend to talk about books that have moved or helped me in some way, you know,concentrate on the positive. So much more fun.