There's a difference, you see.
A Book Talk is simply a sharing to motivate someone to read a book. It's informal and upbeat, and is not a book review, book report, or book analysis.
Examples of Book Talk blogs are:
A Book Review, on the other hand, follows a standard procedure and includes such essentials as:
- book title, author, copyright date, ISBN
- author's purpose
- book's theme and thesis
- author's support of thesis
- evaluation of book for interest, accuracy, objectivity, etc.
- further information about the author
- summary, analysis, and comments on the book's content
Five Book Review blogs that do the job well are:
Though I might be able to convince an occasional guest to post an honest-to- goodness Book Review on this blog in the future, to be on the safe side, I'm renaming Book Review Friday, Book Talk Friday.
Oh, and just out of curiosity, which do you prefer, book reviews or book talks?
2 comments:
I like the idea. There are so many reviews out there, opinions, but very few talks or discussions. Good for you. Looking forward to it.
Yes, Lee. There's a place for reviews, but I tend to talk about books that have moved or helped me in some way, you know,concentrate on the positive. So much more fun.
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