HELLO THERE!

Hiya! So I'm assuming no one has really looked here yet, so for introductions etc. scroll down to the first post on this page, it's not far. Then come back up here and read the rest of this.


I'm pretty much completely done with school, and I've started reading the first couple of books I'll be reviewing here. One is a pretty quick read so look for that soon. Things here may be a bit slow going at first but they'll pick up, I promise. Here are a few titles you can expect to see in the near future:

• Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
• Beachmont Letters by Elinor Twoomey
• No Promises In The Wind by Irene Hunt
• Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors

All of the above are rereads; books I haven't read in a long time that I'm revisiting now. Other books I'll be reviewing a bit later on are:

• The Flames Of Rome by Paul L. Maier
• The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (yes, I'm aware that pretty much everyone has read this book but me)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Reckless by Cornelia Funke
• Hopefully! Keep your fingers crossed... The Bully Book by Eric Kahn Gale

AND MORE!
I hope that looks good to y'all! There is something else I wanted to show you. I've been thinking about a format for my reviews. Everyone does it a bit differently, and I wanted to come up with something both helpful and interesting. This is currently what I have in mind, please let me know what you think! Basically, a review will look like this:


[a picture of the cover]

In Few Words: A brief descriptive summary of my overall opinion/reaction. This will probably just be some adjectives lumped together but then isn't that what most reviews are? In fact this would probably look like those excerpts from newspaper reviews that you see inside or on the backs of books. "Brilliant...stunning...fantastically imagined and wonderfully written."* That kind of thing.

Star Rating: Out of five stars

Summary: Self-explanatory...

Review: Obvious...the actual review. Opinion on storyline, writing quality and style, characters, meanings, what I liked and didn't like, blah blah blah.

If This Were A Movie, I'd Rate It: I guess this would be parental information. Exactly what it says...my movie rating (G, PG, etc.)  for the book and why. Please keep in mind my ideals of what something should be rated for what may be different from yours.

And that is all I have to say right now. I'll post another old review soon and then the fun begins with Bound!


*For the record, that isn't taken from any real review. I just made it up on the spot.