Booking Through Thursday: Deb and Yvonne ask:
What do you look for when reading a book blog?
Does the blogger have to read the same genre?
Do you like reviews? Personal posts? Memes?
Giveaways? What attracts you to a book blog?
And–what are your favorite book blogs?
Actually, I don’t regularly follow any blog/meme that is all about books except if you count this one (Booking Through Thursday, which deals with general questions about reading habits rather than reviews).
I only read book reviews online for two reasons: One is if I’m looking for something specific. The other is if I know the blogger and am curious to see what he/she reads – especially of course if I know that at least partly we share the same interests. (And okay, a third reason may be if I just randomly happen to land on one; but that happens with all kinds of blog topics!)
A personal blog post is usually of more interest to me than a book review written by someone I know nothing else about.
I quite like Booking Through Thursday though, because it makes me think a bit on my own reading habits, and widens my outlook too. I do usually go round to look at quite a few other answers to this meme, whether I comment on them or not.
I’ll take the opportunity to mention a new blog by a blogging friend in England:
Once A Librarian. (Also in other contexts known as Scriptor Senex.)
A good answer.
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this one is easy, i don't do book blogs, accept of course when you do one. LOL
ReplyDeleteSandra, I think I have enough on my plate just now, without starting a separate book blog (LOL) I think I'll stick to just mixing my occasional reviews in on this blog as before.
ReplyDeleteI must admit that my other book blog is all reviews but it is primarily for my own benefit so that I have an impetus to keep a list of what I read (and to remind myself what I thought of it). How I wush I'd kept such a list forty years ago...
ReplyDeleteThanks for mentioning 'Once a Librarian'. Hopefully that will be of more general interest and will wander across the whole spectrum of librries and literature.