Book Blogger Hop
This prompt was submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver’s Reviews:
What is your method for writing reviews – do you write immediately after reading, wait a few days, or write as you are reading?
Write as I’m reading? Wow. There are people who do that? I hope some of the responses to this prompt are people talking about how they pull that off, I’d like to see that. Occasionally, I’ll leave myself a note along the lines of, “be sure to mention _____”—sometimes that will end up taking the form of a phrase or maybe a sentence or two—and those almost always never make the posted write-up. I might be more efficient if I could write about a book while reading (obviously not simultaneously…but that would be super-cool, I’d probably have to pop the same pills as Eddie Morra to pull that off).
Occasionally, I’m so excited and/or provoked enough that I start writing a post minutes after reading a book. And I have been known to close a book and start writing straight away because I have a Book Tour stop the next day, sure, let’s be honest (I’ve gotten much better about that lately…I think).
Typically, though, I like to give myself a day or two to let the thoughts marinate—what parts of the book do I want to talk about? What do I want to say about those parts? Are there things I want to emphasize? Things I want to downplay? Did I actually enjoy this or that aspect? How much energy/time do I want to expend on the book? Once I start writing, that goes out the window—I’ll end up spending more of both than I budgeted if I get on a roll/think of something new I wanted to talk about. Or, like with In a House of Lies last week, I realize I just don’t have anything interesting* to say.
* For the sake of discussion, we’re going to posit that I have anything interesting to say ever.
What about you?
Bookstooge
When I read a book, I read a book. not mentally write the review. I guess if you enjoy that, great, but I don’t see how you can actually enjoy the process of reading if you’re doing all that other stuff.
HCNewton
Right…beyond something like “remember this idea…” to jog my memory later on, don’t want to mess with the flow.
Idea-ist@GetLostinLit
Like you, I have to think about it a few days…Sometimes those last few pages can make or break an opinion. It’s important to organize my thoughts before throwing them up on the internet.
https://getlostinlit.blogspot.com/2022/06/friday-book-blog-hop-on-tuesday.html
HCNewton
Organizing thoughts before putting them on the Internet? Is that allowed? 🙂
Fazila
Lol! Same! I would love to know how people manage to read and review together! Sounds like fascinating way to do it. Like you, I like to take couple of days to process everything I read.
HCNewton
Right? How do they do that?