Let's Talk Bookish; Writing & Posting Book Reviews
It's Friday, which means it's probably time for another Let's Talk Bookish post courtesy of Book Nook Bits and Dinipanda Reads. Today's topic was writing and posting book reviews.
Here's the further prompts for today's discussion.
Writing book reviews is a huge part of running a book blog. Do book reviews make up a big part of your blog content? Do you prefer to write long or short reviews? How does reviewing advance copies (ARCs) and working directly with authors and publishers change your approach to writing the reviews? Do you post on platforms other than your blog (i.e. Goodreads, The Storygraph, social media) and do those reviews differ from what you share on your blog?
After I switched things a bit around on this book blog and decided focusing on horor and paranormal books, I've actually reduced the number of book reviews on this blog.
When it comes down to the length of my reviews, they all depend on how much I've got to say about the book - constructive critisism and all, so some might be longer than others, but I am for the most part on the shorter side as I do have a weak spot for clear and concise writing. Why use 400 words, when 75 would suffice?
After the switch on the blog, I've also stopped doing ARC's and working with publishers and/or authors, as there's anyway fewer to work with and in general not quite worth the hassle.
I don't post actual reviews on other sites, but I rate books on Goodreads as soon as I've read them. Not quite the same as writing a review though, but when I was using Netgalley, I did post reviews of ARC's on Goodreads. That was years ago.
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