I've started devouring books again. Thank goodness, I was starting to feel there was something deeply wrong with me. In the last few days I finished Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho, then Kindred by Octavia Butler, then Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips, and finally When it Happens by Susane Colasanti. Two library books, two books in translation, three new authors, in case you were wondering what I'm doing with my challenges. And three of them featured romantic love between two of the main characters, so I suppose they could count towards Naida's Romance Reading challenge.Speaking about challenges, I've realized I signed up for too many in my enthusiasm. I might have to drop a few, or maybe even more than a few. But never mind; I'm not exactly concerned about this. I guess there will be no Challenge Police coming after me if I fail at a few challenges, after all.
Now the problem is just reviewing those books, since I feel I haven't quite gotten over my blogging burnout. So I have a question (or two) for you: when you feel you have nothing to say about a book, what do you do? Do you write a review all the same? Do you write that the book didn't inspire you ay all? Or do you simply go on to another book? (I'm asking because I committed to reviewing every book I read for this year, but now I'm thinking this might now be the smartest idea. Uhm.)
On a side note: I received two spam comments last week. I've always hated word verification, but I hate spammers as well. I might have to introduce word verification to my posts if the spam increases. We'll see.
6 Comments:
lol! Definitely no challenge police, thank goodness.
If I don't have much to say about a book, I either do a mini-review, or try to think about why that much left me with nothing much to say and try to write about that. Or I just don't review it :P Normally I only make an extra effort if it's a challenge book.
Part of the purpose of my blog (the main reason for it, actually) is to review every book I read so of course I would have to find something to say. But it doesn't have to something extensive - a few sentences of plot followed by a comment on my opinion, and that could be it. But that's just MY policy - your blog doesn't have to follow my rule. :)
Word verification really annoys me. Unless the spams continues to increase, please don't add verification.
Hope you liked Kindred. Hate to think it's one of the books you're not inspired to write about.
I appreciate hearing why a book doesn't work for a reader, but I think life is to short to do something because you think you have to when you really don't.
LOLOL! Sometimes it's nice to take a break.
I second Nymeth's comment: why do you have nothing to say? That helps us know if we want to read it.
What is the purpose of you blog. One of my purposes is to keep track of what I read so I'll generally write something about everything, even if it isn't anything more than "This is a romance novel set in ___ and it just didn't catch my interest".
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