Retro Post – Sit… Stay… Roll Over… Play Dead
Damn we are barely waiting six months to rehash things…Sit… Stay… Roll Over… Play Dead first posted on 1/6/06 and because there is never enough said about reviewing. You had to see this coming If you...
View Articleit’s not yet the finely detailed insanity that you’ve come to expect from me
Come on, wanna guess where the quote came from? I know I said, maybe once or twice I was done. Finished with the topic. It was dead to me. And being as this is Alluring Tales week it isn’t on topic…...
View ArticleDo You C What I C?
Question I would love for anyone and everyone to answer…. I know it has been talked about over and over but I have been giving letter grades a bit of thought over the past few days. I never ‘graded’...
View ArticleIf You Can Only Say Something Nice
Does your opinion matter at all? Barbara Vey, who blogs for PW has a post up today called, “Reading the Book: A Novel Approach to Reviewing.” Yes, yes. I hear you groaning now, “Dear god, please, not...
View ArticleMy Way or the Highway?!?
This started out as a short lil comment on this post, regarding “DNF Reads” [aka did not finish]. I, as I tend to do, went off on a ramble. So hey new post! Caroline Linden brought up the DNF thing but...
View ArticleF Off…
A while back I discovered many of you see C grades differently than we do here. I thought it was a very interesting discussion and was reminded of it while reading the 60+ comments (from mostly...
View ArticleROB Reviews
I have been reading a ton of ‘not my normal kind of reads’ lately. I thought about not reviewing them but something made me read them. So where I may have loved some, been eh about some and was very...
View ArticleStand and Be Judged (by a duck)
This was first published Dec 4, 2007. Seems like a good time for a retro post…. Many questions are asked of how we grade things around here. Below is a quick reminder of what it means to be judged by...
View ArticleNew Game: stupid or clueless
TGTBTU is a reader blog. We are for readers by readers and everything I do – event, news or feature wise – is for readers just like us. TGTBTU is very author friendly or at least I think we are. If...
View ArticleRetro post: Do You C, What I C
This was first posted on 12/16/07 As I have been thinking a lot on reviews and grading (again) I figured you guys should be too ;). If you commented before (click the date it was first posted) do you...
View ArticleA Challenge to Gwen, I Blame Keishon
Well it isn’t ALL her fault and I do plan on bringing up the EVER loved topic of reviews more later but avid reader posted about Susan Wiggs Fireside reviews on you know THAT PLACE…....
View ArticleA personal disclaimer…
Disclaimer – I’m British, so I don’t think the FTC rules apply to me, but just in case – the vast majority of the books I review I’ve bought for myself. Because something attracted me to it, and...
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