Diverse Book Reviews and Imps

So not only has it been a while since I last posted something (which I do have some more book reviews coming they are just half done like everything else in my drafts). And since I never actually explained how I would be doing book reviews on my site, I figured it was time I brought up the strange way I’m rating books and what kind of books I’d be dealing with on this blog.

So without further ado, I’d like to introduce my five little imps:

I know, they are adorable. And trust me, they know it too. In fact, they never let me forget it. Because there is only one other thing they talk about so often other than their cuteness and that is the books we read together. Now each of my little imps enjoy certain things about books, and so whether they like the book or not often depends on those things.

If you’d like to know more about what each imp likes, you can look at my book review page.

Now because each of my imps like different things in books, they actually became a great way for judging how well a book does, with my snobbiest fifth imp only liking the best of books. So, this became the perfect way for me to review books and provide some kind of tangible star system. So yep, I’m using my five little imps as a star system, don’t worry they were excited about it. Of course they want better representations of themselves to be used, because now they are calling me speciest for thinking all imps look the same. For now though, that is what they get.

Along the same lines, some more book reviews will be popping up over this next week too! And even some like… old-fashioned blog posts with possibly some mixes of manifestos. Most of my creative writing stuff is on hold while I finish up the work with the anthology. But book reviews still come because they are quick to write-up and usually quick to read the books (currently I’m on two really long books though which is taking longer).

However a collection of reviews focused around fairy tale anthologies should be coming up with the soonest one likely to be Kissing the Witch. There will also be a review of one of Jeanette Winterson’s older books popping up soon too, because I HAVE to review something of hers that I’ve already read. Likely to be Powerbook I think.

That’s all for now though Go check out my book review page if you want to look at some of the other books I’ve already done though.