Now that’s a loaded question but it gets to the heart of the matter. Isn’t that what any reviewer is doing by reviewing a book and giving it 5 stars or a green rating or a ‘you must read this’ quote? Personally, if it’s a book I love I’m going to sell it to you. [...]
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Question: Should One Book Redefine a Genre?
I know I haven’t quite finished with all the other points I’ve raised this week but I’m on a roll… and this one is kind of a hot topic. Or at least has got me at bit heated! So what book am I thinking of? and what genre? Well this week is The ‘Men of [...]
Question: Is there a bigger picture?
Subtitled: Should book bloggers care? And what is this bigger picture anyway? Well we’ve definitely got into navel gazing territory now but lets run with it as it’s worth thinking about as in the end blogging is vital to getting promoting books. And my favourite Devil’s Advocate and much blogged about author said so himself [...]
Question: Books can wait…can’t they?
This is going to turn into a navel gazing post I suspect but none the less here we go. It’s all Mark Charan Newton’s fault this post. He had to say this in response to yesterday’s blog on ‘Why not just read and review the books you want to read?’(which was his fault too btw)’: [...]
Question: Why not just read and review the books you want to read?
I love Twitter. I have some great friends (both online and real ones there) and if you want the latest book news and gossip it’s a brilliant way to discuss things. Having only 140 characters really makes you stick to the point and then you get questions like this one from @MarkCN: Why not just [...]
Question: How Would You Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?
You can find my answer here along with BookChickCity‘s. I think me and BookChickCity are pretty much scaredy cats. You’d think we’d both be like the Terminator and Sarah Connor armed to the teeth right? More interesting though how zombies have been seeping into our collective consciousness It wasn’t before I started writing my guest post for The Living Dead Blog and I started to [...]
World Book Day Question: I Wanna Know One Book That Everyone Should Read?
World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading. It might have slipped past you but today is World Book Day. So I thought it would fun to do a quick survey on Twitter so I asked more or less: I wanna know one book that everyone should read? [...]
Question: Are you looking for book reviewers?
This question just arrived in my mail box: Are you looking for book reviewers? The answer should surely be yes, shouldn’t it? I’ve got enough books here that I could do with some help. But as nice as the offer is I’m not sure I want to open my blog to others. Not because it’s [...]
Question: How many is too many?
An ongoing theme is my reading is the number of choices available versus the time available to read, which is to be expected really as there is always another book to read. You just have to walk into a bookshop to see the choices, and think how you end up tackling that. How do you [...]
Question: Should publishers just hire writers to write what they want to sell?
Mark Charan Newton, of Nights of Villjamur said on his blog Gav – So you’re arguing the abandoning of original fiction and that all publishers should just print work for hire?! This was in response to: This is probably going to get me into trouble but publishers should fully commission more books. Not open submissions [...]
