Friday Book Beginnings & Book Blog Hop
Book Beginnings on Fridays by Rose City Reader - Share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.
"Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue - there was a mother whose daughter was stolen from her. Oh, she could still see the girl... But the child was silent, and her eyes remained closed." The Land of Lost Things by John Connolly
I absolutely loved John Connolly's book The Book of Lost Things so when the sequel came out, The Land of Lost Things, I rushed out to get it. If you liked the stories of the brothers Grimm, you'll like these books too (most likely). They're about people who get swept away into the darkest of fairytales.
Q: What's your typical process for writing a book review, from reading the book to publishing the review on your blog? (submitted by Page @ Pages of Perfiction)
A: To start I take notes on what I read while I'm reading it. The notes will be on plot, anything in particular that I loved or hated about the story, anything that I felt had deeper meaning. I'll transfer these notes to a 'new post' on blogger, and work on organizing them and turning them into coherent paragraphs. I'll put a book quote that stood out to me at the top of the review with the hope of intriguing readers further, and above the quote I insert a picture of the cover. And thus, I have a review. To publish the post, I rarely do it manually. I know what day I want it to go live (usually on a Monday) and I'll schedule it to post by itself at the correct time and date.
What are you reading this week?
That's a very sound method for writing book reviews. I occasionally will review a book on my blog, but I do it mostly from memory and they are not as thorough as what you do.
ReplyDeleteI used to do it from my memory too, but i felt like the reviews were lacking... I decided instead of just saying whether the book was good or bad, i wanted to be able to say why i liked it and what i didn't like about it.
DeleteI'm reading a Stephen King book. Always liking me his stuff. In fact, I write in his style. The only problem is that he writes these gawdawful long tomes. The worst (IMO) was "It." VERY entertaining. Until the end. Then, it seemed like he got bored and said, "You know, I'm hungry. Let's put in a spider monster and a turtle. Then go to lunch. Whaddya say?"
ReplyDeleteI've never really read stephen king, except for a short story in college (didn't really like it) but i've always wanted to try reading the shining since i loved the movie. i hate when authors do that, get to a point when they just decide theyre sick of writing the story now. i've read a few that ended like that, and they never make any sense.
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