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"Do you read book reviews?
Whose do you trust?
Do they affect your reading habits?
Your buying habits?"
Whose do you trust?
Do they affect your reading habits?
Your buying habits?"
I read book reviews. I read them by book bloggers. I read them in print newspapers. I read them in online newspapers. I read them in bookstore handouts. I read them here. I read them there. I truly read them EVERYWHERE.
(If that sounded a bit like Dr. Seuss, it was meant to.)
Mostly, I trust book bloggers I have come to know because I read their blogs frequently. And I'm a regular readers of those blogs because, in comparing my own interests to theirs, I have learned that books they like and recommend are actually books I enjoy reading.
Of course, reviews by book bloggers affect my reading habits. Often, I go to my library's online connection and put a book on hold while I'm still reading a blogger's review. That's why I usually have more than one window open at a time, so I can do things like that.
On the other hand, my buying habits are primarily influenced by my pocketbook. If a book is unavailable from my library or a friend (I take good care of borrowed books), then I might buy it if it's one I can't live without.
So it's ironic that the last thing I posted, before checking on today's Booking Through Thursday topic, was about that book report I did more than fifty years ago. A book report that was itself pure fiction. I trust other book bloggers, but now you may never again trust anything I say. Maybe I shouldn't have told that story?
You had me laughing with your post about your 8th grade "fiction," Bonnie.
ReplyDeleteI read a lot of book reviews, too, as I don't purchase many books these days and want to make sure I'm getting my money's worth on those I do. I like the reviews on Amazon, though I often don't agree with many of them. It astonished me to see so many folks on there rating one of my favorite books of all time so poorly---Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. They called it "slow" and "boring." Well, I suppose it IS slow, compared to, say, a John Grisham thriller. But it is lovely and contemplative, like reading a poem...and not boring at all. In my opinion, anyway.
I like your answer.
ReplyDeletehere's mine:
http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2011/06/booking-through-thursday.html
Great answer. I like to read reviews but I don't base my book buying decisions on them.
ReplyDeleteSally.
http://theelifylop.blogspot.com/2011/06/booking-through-thursday-20.html