The Post on Book Reviews

Wow, so basically we took an unplanned month off. So many apologies. So many....

Anyways. On many book websites, you can write reviews. Goodreads, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and I'm sure many others. Are reviews actually useful?

Personally, I like reading reviews. I don't know exactly why... I read the bad reviews, and some of the good reviews (sometimes there can be a lot of good reviews so I don't get to them all). The problem is, though, as much as I can understand and relate to the person who wrote the review (as much as possible without having read the book) I don't know if we like the same genre. If we judge the same content as bad or good.

Kara recently-ish wrote a book review on a book titled Summer by Summer by Heather Burch. (I looked and looked for it, but couldn't find hers, but we had the same opinion of it pretty much, so here's mine. ) That's what I was getting to... Sometimes you can find people and have the same opinion of them :)

But what about writing reviews? Writing reviews can be difficult... but they can fun. I've written many book reviews in my life... and you know what? When I get to writing them, I still go... Um... 'I liked this book a lot', is that good enough?

That's one of the reason's why I want to start writing book reviews here, and naming books that I like-- that way you can learn if we have the same taste in books!

Just because I or you may not like a book, doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad. Some books ARE bad, but some just aren't for me. :)

SO I know I haven't posted in a long time, but maybe soon I'll start writing book reviews for the summer. :)

Any book in particular you want me to read? Not guaranteeing anything, but maybe I'll see what I can do. :) (and if I don't get to it this time, doesn't mean it won't be put on my To-Be-Read list!)

Why I Write

I was thinking just the other day about why I write, and I thought I should do a blog post on it. :)

Why I Write:
1. I love it.
I love creating entire worlds I can escape into, being in control (usually, unless my characters try to take over), being able to chose 'happily ever after' or to kill them all.... :)

2. It's good for me. Okay, maybe that's cheating because I would still do it even if there were no health benefits, but since I do write, I might as well write the benefits... :-
    1. It helps you think things through. If I do This thing, then This Other Thing might happen... so if This Other Thing happened, would I be able to pick the lock?
     2. Very educational. It really depends on what genre you write, but pretty much whatever you write-- if you are trying to make it realistic anyway-- you have to learn something.

3. It's a nice feeling of accomplishment when you finish a book. :)
Besides writing 'the end', you get to see everything you have written and you can think about all of the plot twists, the characters and every word and page you wrote.... When filling out applications and they ask what accomplishment I am most proud of I think about the stories I've written. :)

I'm thankful for writing and putting pen to paper... er.... fingers to the keyboard? I'm thankful for writing stories-- and reading them too!

Why do you write? Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

PS: If you like YA Christian Fiction, Tessa Hall over on her blog is doing a give away. :)