Here’s a link to a blog posting by author, Shannon Hale, about book evaluation vs. self evaluation. She discusses many of the issues we talked about in our book reviewing class a couple of weeks ago.
Author, John Green, also comments on her posting in his blog posting A Book Reviewer’s Apologies (Aug 27/09). In particular, he discusses the pitfall (that he also has fallen into) of placing too much emphasis on liking/disliking a book, rather than on assessing whether it “accomplished what it wanted to accomplish, and whether that thing was worth accomplishing.”
Much food for thought in both the postings and comments!
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