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[ SECRET POST #6594 ]
⌈ Secret Post #6594 ⌋
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Re: How to write book reviews?
(Anonymous) 2025-01-25 06:14 am (UTC)(link)I do not have professional advice. I have fan-girl advice. And that fan-girl advice is to focus on how the book effected you.
A summary, a description of genre, or the works cited or style or pictures or whatever is cool and helpful, and also that already exists. I care about you and what you liked! Here are some examples, they are my own, I am very cringe, know that no matter how rough you may feel I'm out here doing it worse!
How it impacted your behavior: I read this during lunch breaks to relax but I couldn't stop reading so I had to stop bringing it with me.(1) I checked the door lock and turned on all the lights before I started a new chapter, and I was leery of shower curtains and shaped shrubs for months.(2) Or even something like, Reading this book was like eating vegetables; I knew it was going to be good so I stuck with my routine and though it was like boiled cauliflower in places I appreciate having done it. (Too Many)
How it impacted your emotions: At the start I enjoyed how much I hated Main Character, but by the end I was so pulled into her mindset I was GIDDY for her revenge, hell yeah girl, kill his mom and crash a plane lets GO! (3) I found myself so involved with the characters that I had to put the book down when Character made a deeply stupid decision, I was *angry* and disappointed with her even though I understood her desperation. (4) This book brought me so much joy I "live-blogged" it to my partner before posting my thoughts to f!secrets each day because I just wanted to tell EVERYONE! (5)
How it's impacted your thoughts: I was recommended this book in high school as a tale of leadership and sticking up for yourself, and next heard about it on the Weird Fiction podcast and it *is* kind of a ghost story, but I went back to it after a difficult roommate situation and I felt really seen with all of my mixed up emotions the empathy, the pity, the rage, the self righteousness, and most of all the desire for this to just Not Be Happening Actually. (6) There's something there about how tiny, almost thoughtless, acts of kindness and cruelty can reverberate around people and have all kinds of unforeseen consequences, growing and growing. And even how these two moments have nothing to do with the greater mystery but have so much impact on the people actually dealing with the plot.(7) I may need to reckon with the fact that my idea of heaven (every soul is free and able to create joy without fear) is basically just post-scarcity space communism, how I think of it as something that happens "after" real life where we seek to find meaning. We really could make the world a wonderful place, but how do I square that with my preconceived beliefs that life is about struggle and "mattering" and improving, how justice is about punishment and reward, how success and quality means attention? Also, I can empathize more with the AI hype but I could still beat Sam Altman with a rock. (9) You know, as much as people say Romance Novels are all fainting maidens getting problematically ravished I *really* can't find good non-con fiction outside of fanfiction. All the problematic stuff I go looking for is just so *romantic*. (9)
1 - The Martian
2 - The Shining
3 - The Perfect Girlfriend
4 - A Song of Ice and Fire
5 - (W)ar (a)nd (P)eace - hi guys, luv u
6 - Bartleby The Scrivener
7 - Untouchable (warhammer 40k fanfiction)
8 - Player of Games
9 - Half-Orc's Maiden Bride
Re: How to write book reviews?