While typing up my (almost) daily review link-up a few minutes ago, I came across a review on Bookspot Central that was a bit interesting. It is a review covering the latest novel by Charlie Huston. You can find the review here. While I won't go so far as to say that I found the review offensive, I did wonder about the prolific profanity. Is that really appropriate in a review? Especially consider...

We're happy to see that The Quarterly Conversation has made the Powell's Review. Our review of Castle by J Robert Lennon was reprinted in the Review last week, joining luminaries like The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Washington Post Book World, and many others.

Valerie from Life is a Patch Work Quilt pondered at the meaning of a book review. What defines a book review? She is trying to achieve the balance in review content between discussions, impressions, and thoughts. In my opinion, all three are conducive to an objective review. Some bloggers are not keen on summarizing the

I know there has been a lot of discussion this year about what actually constitutes a review. To me, it has to contain at least some personal opinions and thoughts from the reviewer. I just read a review of A Young Man Without Magic by Lawrence Watt-Evans on the SFRevu.com site. I read the "review" twice, and still can't find the actual review. I do see a book summary/book report, but nothing in r...

You can find my review of Masha Hamilton's 31 Hours in The Feminist Review today in case you get the urge to wander by. It's only mediumish long, so nothing too time-consuming. But, of course, if you can't get over there ... sniff ... I'll understand ... sob! No pressure.

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Giorgio Faletti's I Kill. And, yes: we have got to get more discriminating in what we review.

  Here’s my list of the books that I enjoyed reading the most that were published in 2008, in no particular order: Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen (review and Interview with the author) Anathem by Neal Stephenson (review) The Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames (review) The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt (review) Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky (review) The Mons...

It’s crystal clear that my recent reading blahs are a thing of the past.  Despite knowing that A Reliable Wife was only published last March, I feel like so much time was wasted before I read it.  Hadn’t I read review, after review, after review, after review, after review?  I may have only myself to blame,

Review book courtesy of Penguin Group   To recap: when I put up a “non-review,” it means I couldn’t finish a book. I’m not going to review it on Epinions or Amazon, and this isn’t going to be a full-on review, but I don’t mind telling you folks here why I decided not to finish it in

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Hugo Claus' Wonder, forthcoming from Archipelago Books.