My twentieth, and last in this series, book-review retrospective is The Shadow in the River, by Frode Grytten, from May. ❋ Maxine (2009)
We've been reading somewhere between two and three hundred books a year for the last, oh, say, at least two decades, which is a LOT of books to pick from, Author-friends, and we thought this little book-review project would be a lark but now it is making us want to weep with despair. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Having been a crime reporter (and still writing a book-review column every few months for Crime Magazine), I figured out the M.O. at once. ❋ Unknown (2009)
My eighth book-review retrospective is The Scent of the Night, the sixth of a wonderful series of books by Andrea Camilleri. ❋ Maxine (2009)
On the other hand, this is what Shafer takes to be a model of book-review prose: ❋ Unknown (2010)
Actually, I should be paying attention instead of just joking around, since I'll be launching a book-review blog, with my colleague Eliza Brown, over on the Eric Carle Museum's shop website, in a few months. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)
My fifth book-review retrospective is from February, and my choice is Sun Storm by Asa Larsson. ❋ Maxine (2009)
As I've been reviewing rather a lot of books in the past couple of years or more, and think I'm getting into the swing of it a bit, I was interested to read, via Mystery Bookshelf, itself picking up from Critical Mass blog, John Updike's book-review rules. ❋ Maxine (2009)
Book Reviews, Revamped The Wall Street Journal's books editor, Robert Messenger, joins editors of other newspapers and trade periodicals to discuss how they've reinvented their book-review sections in recent years. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The eleventh choice in my daily book-review retrospective is another from March, The Pure in Heart, by Susan Hill. ❋ Maxine (2009)
The Pool of Unease by Catherine Sampson is the seventeenth in my daily book-review retrospective. ❋ Maxine (2009)
Meaning: because the real money in book-review publishing now lies in their dissemination through databases rather than as print publications, it's smart to make them as versatile and buzzable as possible. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)
Number eighteen in this daily series of book-review retrospectives is another from April, Gallow's Lane by Brian McGilloway. ❋ Maxine (2009)
Fewer book reviews are appearing in print because of recent cutbacks at newspaper book-review sections, but is the smaller number necessarily a bad thing? ❋ Unknown (2009)
She paid $575 for an expedited review from Kirkus Reviews, a respected book-review journal and website. ❋ Alexandra Alter (2011)
This is the second of a daily series of book-review retrospectives. ❋ Maxine (2009)
