I love writing book reviews. It gives me a chance to delve into the book’s theme, analyze the author’s writing style, describe the book’s unique qualities, reflect on how the book made me feel, and find fabulous quotes from it. A book that I adore and am sad when it ends, what’s the term? - finding closure!!!
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Give a review on Amazon Kindle free reads and good reads. The book is called A Love Story Ignites. Really good book
I like helping people find books, which is sort of related. You’re trying to just hint at why they’ll like it, without giving it all away. And it feels really good when you know exactly the right book for someone.
I probably should but I never do. I’m either busy with other stuff or just too lazy… probably a combination of the two. But at least I found time to read the book in the first place!
I love to read reviews of recent books and consumer reviews. What irritates me (a little bit) is when someone pulls something from the Canon and tries to do a fresh take.
No, I don’t need to read a reddit review of 1984 or Wuthering Heights.
I do! Beyond the « sharing to the community » aspect, putting down what is your own summary of a book and it’s impact has something satisfying about it, thanking it for the knowledge and/or feeling it gave.
I’ve actually recently purchased a nice little journal to record by book reviews in and I’m so excited! It’s fun to write reviews and I know I’ll enjoy looking back on them, especially if I reread the book.
Download the Goodreads app, you can do reviews in there, keep track of the books you read, set goals for # of books read, check out what your friends are reading and what they think about it, etc. You can even flag your reviews if they have spoilers. I love the app and it’s free.
Good suggestion! I love Goodreads app, it’s so perfect.
Goodreads is the only way I keep track of all I’ve read and what my friends are reading! Highly recommend it. Although, it can be difficult for me personally not to read and be influenced by the negative book reviews before starting a book…
I don’t do it for every book I read because that would be a lot of reviews, but I will if the book really struck a chord with me. It can be a good way to start a conversation and compare impressions with others (like, “What was the main character’s motivation for doing X?”).
I can’t say I love it, because I’m lazy, but it’s a necessity. If I don’t write a review, I will absolutely forget I even read the book. Someone will suggest a book here on reddit, and I look it up on goodreads. Guess what? I already read it. If I read it before about 2017/2018, I will only have rated it stars, not have written a review. Damned if I can remember anything I thought about it.
When I read a book review, I am looking for info that will tell me if that book might be for me. So, when I write a review, I don’t wander off into the weeds. I try to write about what I’d want to know, in order to make a more informed decision. Did the author fulfill the promise of the premise? Were the characters good? What are the major tropes? What didn’t work for me, and why, if applicable. And of course, how many stars I give, where one is not good, two is some good, three is average good, four is very good, and five is great.
I like discussing it with friends, writing is too much of an effort for basically noone
I do now. I started writing them about six months ago on Goodreads. I agree that it feels like a sense of closure.
I do it in my head! Lol!
I always want to write reviews, but usually the only ones I actually do are for books that annoyed or disappointed me. Nothing quite like spite to motivate me to write!
I love the idea of it. Like I created a good reads account years ago. Used it for a few months… and then just stopped. About a year ago I created an account on storygraph. Thinking it would be nice to keep track of the books I read and what I thought about them and then I did it for about a few months… and then just stopped.
I used to, but I am Dreck so I kind of gave up