book review

Book review is a popular tag because of the number of blogs that review books and the rise of so-called litblogs ("literary blogs").

A book review is an analysis of or commentary on a particular book or books or even a series of books. Book bloggers may review all genres or just specific ones, such as romance, science fiction or even graphic novels.

The popularity of book review also reflects changing times. The book review was long the almost exclusive province of weekly, biweekly or other periodic print publications. As book blogs increased, debate began about the value of book bloggers. Now, however, some standalone print book review sections are being downsized or shut down. The blogosphere may be the future for the book review.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “book review”

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  New book reaffirms that kissing a frog is as frightening as shifting one’s life from negative thoughts to positive actions.
  by pfaulhaber / on Feb 18, 2012
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “book review”

 

• Review of “Learning From the Octopus” by Rafe Sagarin

  
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  Rafe Sagarin, a marine ecologist, suggests that we can use the lessons of nature to help prepare for natural disasters as well as to manage conflict among groups. Millions of species on Earth have learned how to survive and thrive in a risky, variable, and uncertain world – why not learn from natural organisms how ...
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• A Darkly Hidden Truth by Donna Fletcher Crow - Blog Tour and Book Review

  
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  About the Book: Felicity cant possibly help Father Antony find the valuable missing icon. Shes off to become a nun. And then her impossible mother turns up unexpectedly. And a good friend turns up murdered... Breathtaking chase scenes, mystical worship services, dashes through remote water-logged landscapes, ...
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• Take A Bow

  
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  Take A Bow Fran Lewis Standing on stage: can you hear the applause? The loud cheers of the audience drown out the band as they start playing your encore number and the audience finally gets quiet. The lights dim then a spotlight is on your face and the song beings bringing the audience to its feet shouting they ...
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• Review & Giveaway: Straight to Hell – Michelle Scott

  
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  Title: Straight to Hell (Lilith Straight #1) Author: Michelle Scott Publication date: September 9, 2011 Format: Ebook ASIN: B005M3MQ84 Length: 179 pages Genre: Paranormal / Urban fantasy Age group: Adult Source: Author Add it: Goodreads Buy it: Smashwords | Amazon US The moment ...
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• Straight To Heaven by Michelle Scott Review & Giveaway{Book Tour}

  
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  Title: Straight To Heaven Author: Michelle Scott Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Urban Fae Publications Published Date: May 1st 2012 Star Rating: 5 stars – A Must Read Synopsis: Hell’s newest employee, Lilith Straight, thinks she’s got a handle on her job as the Devil’s temptress until she finds ...
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• I Can’t Hear Myself Think

  
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  By Dexter Palmer In “Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture,” Diana Senechal argues that the omnipresence of computers, tablets and smartphones hampers our ability to commune not just with one another, but with ourselves. Related Entries May 16, 2012 Graduation May 12, 2012 ...
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• Book Review: The Last Refuge

  
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  The Last Refuge by Ben Coes My rating: 5 of 5 stars View all my reviews Ben Coes–you get better every time. If you read either of the first two Dewey Andreas novels–or both of them–don’t miss the next in the series, The Last Refuge (St. Martin’s Press 2012). Coes has always been a good-to-great ...
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• Friday Favourites - Your Favourite Cover Artist?

  
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  Friday Favourites - a chance to rave about a favourite reading/book related topic each week. Sometimes you just want a chance to rave about some favourite aspect of reading that doesnt really come up during regular blogging posts - thats what this is about. Im willing to bet that at least some of those ...
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• Wish You Were Here - New Book Alert!

  
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  Wish You Were Here  by Beth Vogt About the Book: (From Amazon) Kissing the wrong guy days before her scheduled wedding leads Allison to become a runaway bride. But can it also lead to happily ever after? Allison Denman is supposed to get married in five days, but everything is all wrong. The huge ...
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• The Single Best Investment By Lowell Miller

  
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  If you have ever wanted to get into investing, but you weren’t sure where to start, there are thousands of books out there that will get you started. But they are not all created equal. From sky high hope crushers to real world advice, you’ll have plenty of topics to go over. The Single Best Investment by Lowell ...
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• Pre-Order: KEY TO ALIGNING K-5 CLASS WITH COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

  
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• Wait! No Paint! by Bruce Whatley

  
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  What is it?  Wait! No Paint! Who wrote it?  Bruce Whatley Adaptation? This is The Three Little Pigs when the role of the illustrator is literally brought into the story. My thoughts inexactly 10 words:  Perfect meta-fictive irreverence. There are many Laugh out Loud moments. Read more »
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• A Love Forbidden by Kathleen Morgan

  
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  A Love Forbidden  is a new novel by Kathleen Morgan.  It is the second book in The Heart of the Rockies series.  Here’s a bit about the book: Moved by the desire for adventure and a yearning to help the Ute Indians, twenty-year-old Shiloh Wainright impulsively accepts a teaching position at the White River ...
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• Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor – Book Review

  
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  Karou has always had a double life. She spends her days as a high school art student in Prague, and the rest of her time in a dusty old shop where she makes her  home among with the only family that she has ever known, the chimera, creatures with a mixture of human and animal features and body parts. Her friends ...
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• The Forgiven Duke by Jamie Carie

  
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  About the Book Tethered by her impulsive promise to marry Lord John Lemon - the path of least resistance - Alexandria Featherstone sets off toward Iceland in search of her parents with a leaden heart. A glimpse of her guardian, the Duke of St. Easton - the path less traveled by - on Dublin’s shore still haunts ...
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• ERA: The Present

  
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  This picture was taken at the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, home to Alice Paul and the early suffragettes, during the 40 th anniversary on March 22, 2012 of the March 22, 1972 passage of the ERA through Congress. I was so inspired by this program that I decided to create a series of posts dedicated to the ERA’s ...
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• Sonia Johnson Quotes in From Housewife to Heretic

  
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    On Being a Woman: “At the time our great suffragist foremothers were struggling for ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, the antis were saying exactly what they are saying today against legal equality. And so should we, as Howard Phillips of the Conservative Caucus ...
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• Geijutsu Shincho Magazine – Otomo Special Book Review

  
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  Akira creator Otomo Katsuhiro’s Genga Exhibition was a big manga/cultural event in Japan and received a whole lot of press and media coverage, with feature articles appearing in many magazines. Amongst these publications Brutus ( review coming up soon ) and Geijutsu Shincho contain good material and I wanted to ...
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• Arranged by Catherine McKenzie

  
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  S many things are right in Anne Blythe’s life… she loves her job working for a respected magazine, she enjoys great friends, and has a book deal coming together…. so why for the love of all that is good and holy – can she not find a decent boyfriend? After yet another disastrous breakup and the ...
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• “What Would the Founding Fathers Think?” Book Review & Giveaway

  
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  View this post in its original form: “What Would the Founding Fathers Think?” Book Review & Giveaway What Would the Founding Fathers Think A Young American’s Guide to Understanding What Makes Our Nation Great and How We’ve Strayed These are the facts: The United States of America was and ...
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