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Oh man, am I excited for this week’s BIP topic! This week’s task is a content analysis of book reviews to get some info about reviews. How long are they? How personal are they? How many paragraphs does the average book review have? By comparing book reviews written by bloggers to reviews written by professionals, [...]
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This week’s Weekly Geek Challenge was posted by Care. This week we’re talking about different review styles, an exciting topic if I do say so myself. You’ll have to forgive me, I’m finishing this post after midnight because I can’t seem to fall asleep and the late hour and finals brain drain is making me [...]
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This week’s Weekly Geek challenge is a revival of one of my favorite previous activities, the book review link exchange. I’m excited because doing the link exchange was, I think, when I first found Weekly Geeks. Basically, the challenge to let your readers know that you have a link exchange policy, show them your archives, [...]
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I’ve been inspired and excited by reading through all the goals people have posted about. It’s given me a lot of food for thought as I try to formulate my own goals for 2009. Make time for personal reading. In 2008 I read a lot of books for class that I reviewed here, but in [...]
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The first article I read for my class “Literary Aspects of Journalism” was “The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy” by Michael Paterniti, which was first published in Esquire magazine in 2000. “The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy” is a reconstruction of the crash of Swissair flight 111 over Nova Scotia that killed 229 people on [...]
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My favorite non book related blog is Office Tally, a fansite for the NBC show The Office. Each week Office Tally does a weekend tally — a collection of links and stuff related to the office that’s happened over the weekend. Inspired by that, I’ve decided that I’m going to start a Monday Tally, which [...]
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I’m not much of a movie person, so the fact that I’ve now seen two movies in two weeks is an anomaly. I wouldn’t normally post reviews or thoughts on movies, but I had such strong reactions to both of them I thought it would be appropriate. The first movie I saw was Persepolis, an [...]
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In the last few days I’ve read a couple of interesting blog posts/articles about the role of literary criticism and reviews in a changing literature market, and am just getting around to posting about them. The first comes from Jacket Copy, the LA Times Book Blog. The post is called “Being a freelance critic for [...]
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