Reviews, reviews, reviews….

So, the reviews are starting to come in for The Color of Silence and most of them are very kind…check out the review page for some examples!  I am still wrestling with my tendency to take reviews far too seriously…relying on other people’s opinions rather than my own.  So, I decided to take action…in the “if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em” line of thinking.  I am now a reviewer myself, for both CM magazine and Quill and Quire.  I am going to do my best to provide helpful, positive reviews….and if there are aspects of the novel that I don’t agree with or like, I’ll find a constructive way to state my opinion.   It’s just like teaching…you can’t help a student improve if all you do is criticize!  So, here’s my first attempt http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol19/no32/lost.html