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Comments for Upcoming Reviews for the Week of June 2

Weekly GeeksUpcoming Reviews for the Week of June 2: 05/31/08

This week's theme is simple: Catch Up On Reviews Week.

How to:

  1. Catch up on your reviews as much as you can this week.
  2. Towards the end of the week, write a wrap-up post about how that went for you. You could list all the books you reviewed, if you like, and if some of the posts are up already, you could link to them.
  3. Come back and sign the Mister Linky at the bottom of the page with your end-of-the-week wrap-up post.

I'm going to say right out, that I'm not going to follow the rules. I intentionally run up a backlog of books to review. I have committed to reviewing at least one book or story each and every day for a total of 366 book reviews this year. Life is variable and full of surprises and I like having a cushion of books needing review just in case I can't keep up with my reading.

I also need time to think about my reviews. I am not an off-the-cuff reviewer. If I were to review a book right after I finished it, the review would be purely emotional and lacking on substance. I need time to think about why the book effected me in the way that it did, what the book reminded me of, what I liked and didn't like and what the overall theme of the book was.

So instead of committing to reviewing my entire backlog of books which currently stands at about forty, I am posting the books I plan to review next week. I normally post this list on Monday but since my list fits so perfectly with Dewey's challenge, I am posting it now. The first four books are ones I still am committed to writing this weekend.

Upcoming reviews include:

  • Big Jeremy by Steven Kroll
  • Light in August by William Faulkner
  • "Fergus" by Mary Patterson Thornburg
  • Open Brand by Kelly Mooney
  • Wheels, wheels, and More Wheels by Ed Radlauer
  • Blind Side by Penny Warner
  • "The Salting and Canning of Benevolence D." by Al Michaud
  • Color for Thought... by Coast Episcopal School 5th Grade
  • A Superior Death by Nevada Barr
  • Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  • "Character Flu" by Robert Reed
  • Shoes by Debbie Bailey
  • Bleach 14 by Tite Kubo
  • The Sea Shack by Mark McNulty

This week's reviews will be collection of children's books (both fiction and nonfiction) aimed at children ages 4 to 8, a couple of short stories from this month's issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, another issue from Bleach, a mystery and a classic that I read for the Decades Challenge.

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Comment #1: Saturday, May, 31, 2008 at 19:44:27

dewey

I think this works just fine! I also like to have a small backlog so that I won't flounder for something to post in my blog if I get behind on reading. But right now I'm so behind that I've forgotten details in some of the books. One is from October! I probably won't even bother with that one. :) "



Comment #2: Saturday, May, 31, 2008 at 16:50:11

pussreboots

Earlier in the year I found a couple reviews I had meant to write and completely forgot. I wrote them and back dated my entries. I even complained about it on my livejournal."



Comment #3: Saturday, June, 7, 2008 at 23:01:41

gautami tripathy

That is a good pile of books! Better to read than review!

LOL!"



Comment #4: Sunday, June, 8, 2008 at 16:51:10

pussreboots

I've now finished all the reviews I said I'd write this week. I still have a backlog of 47 reviews to write."



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