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It can be difficult to maintain a book review blog with a complete set of all the books one has read throughout the year. So many things can get in the way: work, school, other books, other media like video games or TV shows, or even sometimes just sheer laziness. While reading books is never going to be a chore, writing about them can sometimes feel that way.
I try, however, not to let that happen to me. I read as much as I can, and I write as much as I can about what I read, but there are just some books that I don't particularly care to write at length about. Sometimes they're from series I've been reading since before I started writing reviews; other times they're from series I've written about before but would rather not continue reviewing in the same lengthy format I usually do. Sometimes they're series I can't review on a book-by-book basis because of the way the plot works, or because I read the series in one fell swoop. Sometimes they're standalones, but don't particularly feel like writing about in my usual style. Either way, I do read these books, and I do have an opinion about them, but for a variety of reasons both valid and perhaps not-so-valid, I simply can't be arsed to write about them at length. I could force myself to do that, of course, but then this blog starts feeling a lot less like fun and a lot more like a chore I'm not even paid for, and I certainly don't want that to happen.
So in the interest of completeness (and in the interest of sharing my opinion on these books, some of which are absolutely brilliant), I've decided to institute a midyear and end-of-the-year grab bag post: a collection of all the books that fell through the cracks, so to speak. Reviews will be shorter and to-the-point, but they will, as always, be honest.
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I try, however, not to let that happen to me. I read as much as I can, and I write as much as I can about what I read, but there are just some books that I don't particularly care to write at length about. Sometimes they're from series I've been reading since before I started writing reviews; other times they're from series I've written about before but would rather not continue reviewing in the same lengthy format I usually do. Sometimes they're series I can't review on a book-by-book basis because of the way the plot works, or because I read the series in one fell swoop. Sometimes they're standalones, but don't particularly feel like writing about in my usual style. Either way, I do read these books, and I do have an opinion about them, but for a variety of reasons both valid and perhaps not-so-valid, I simply can't be arsed to write about them at length. I could force myself to do that, of course, but then this blog starts feeling a lot less like fun and a lot more like a chore I'm not even paid for, and I certainly don't want that to happen.
So in the interest of completeness (and in the interest of sharing my opinion on these books, some of which are absolutely brilliant), I've decided to institute a midyear and end-of-the-year grab bag post: a collection of all the books that fell through the cracks, so to speak. Reviews will be shorter and to-the-point, but they will, as always, be honest.
( Read more... )
