Most of us book bloggers like to write book reviews- if we don't love to write book reviews- but here's today's question. When it comes to LT (and your blog), do you review every book you read? Do you just review Early Reviewers or ARCs? Do you review only if you like a book, or only if you feel like you have to? How soon after reading do you post your review? Do you post them other places- other social networking sites, Amazon, etc.?I definitely try to review every book I read, and I began by writing the reviews before I allowed myself to start another book. That's changed by now. I tend to do them in clumps (although I'm hoping to get back into the habit). I've been falling dreadfully behind recently thanks to exams and such. So as soon as I've got all of this over with, you can expect to be inundated!
I prefer to read book blogs that have a mix of new books coming out and older books. There's so much out there to discover! And, being a fairly new blog, I don't get a lot of Early Reviewers or ARCs, so I read a wild grab-bag of old and new.
I review books whether I like them or not. I actually prefer to write positive reviews, but I find it more difficult. It's hard to really convey the heart-flutter without spouting the word 'wonderful' and all of its synonyms over and over. Sometimes I feel like I just don't do the good books justice :-).
As for posting my reviews other places: I post them on LT - I'm considering posting an edited-down version with a link (if I could figure out how to link in the review box, help?) here. I used to post on Goodreads, but I'm mostly disenchanted now. I tend to get nasty comments on some of my negative reviews of popular books, so I've stopped posting there. And Amazon reviews seem like too much of a popularity contest for me to get involved with unless a publisher/author specifically requests it.
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