book reviews
Apr. 13th, 2015 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aryanhwyFollowing the blogs of a couple of author friends (Heather Rose Jones, Karen J. Carlisle, and Christine Seaforth Finch) has over the last year or so really developed my awareness of the importance of the reader in helping new writers become established -- and in particular, the power of book reviews.
This is something that I've had to become aware of, because I don't generally read book reviews. I'm not terribly interested in what other people have to say about books (and in fact, there are a large number of books that I didn't read until quite late because of how much my mom and sister enthused about them while I was growing up). But it appears that book reviews are important, and I've been reading some interesting things lately and have decided I'll try to write up my thoughts on them.
But because this doesn't really make the most sense as a place to put them (after all, they need to be available to an audience for them to be of much use, and, frankly, my audience here isn't big nor is it interested in something I want to change except organically), I figure I might as well make use of the goodreads account I created to enter a book giveaway. So you can find my reviews here.
This is something that I've had to become aware of, because I don't generally read book reviews. I'm not terribly interested in what other people have to say about books (and in fact, there are a large number of books that I didn't read until quite late because of how much my mom and sister enthused about them while I was growing up). But it appears that book reviews are important, and I've been reading some interesting things lately and have decided I'll try to write up my thoughts on them.
But because this doesn't really make the most sense as a place to put them (after all, they need to be available to an audience for them to be of much use, and, frankly, my audience here isn't big nor is it interested in something I want to change except organically), I figure I might as well make use of the goodreads account I created to enter a book giveaway. So you can find my reviews here.
