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Matthew: Librarian, Blogger, Bibliofreak!
Hi all,
As I've just signed up I thought I'd drop by and say hi to everyone.
My name's Matthew, I'm a bumbling librarian, amatuer book review blogger, and all round cultural nit-wit. I love books, beauty, and life, and I blog here: http://www.bibliofreak.net.
I signed up to ask some advice about my blog so I'm off to find the relevant forum, but please drop me a line below, say hi, whatever
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Re: Matthew: Librarian, Blogger, Bibliofreak!
Pleased to meet you and glad to have you here Matthew Will stop by your blog to drop a line and check it out in a moment.
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Re: Matthew: Librarian, Blogger, Bibliofreak!
Your blog is quite nice. We have tossed around the idea of doing book reviews here on BookTalk.org, but the work involved has been too much for just me to handle. Your blog impressed me and maybe at some point we can do something together. I'm not sure how many readers you have on your site, but we have over 600,000 pages view per month so decent traffic here. Maybe there is a way you can do reviews for BookTalk.org.
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Re: Matthew: Librarian, Blogger, Bibliofreak!
Welcome, Matthew.
I like your review style. A lot of reviewers just retell the story and say whether they like the characters or not. You bring literary knowledge into the reviews and breakdown the writing.
You should check out Christopher Hitchens', Arguably. He has an amazing style and each review is well researched.
Not to hijack the thread or anything, but I think there would be enough contributers on this site to warrant a book review section, Chris.
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Re: Matthew: Librarian, Blogger, Bibliofreak!
Chris OConnor wrote:
Your blog is quite nice. We have tossed around the idea of doing book reviews here on BookTalk.org, but the work involved has been too much for just me to handle. Your blog impressed me and maybe at some point we can do something together. I'm not sure how many readers you have on your site, but we have over 600,000 pages view per month so decent traffic here. Maybe there is a way you can do reviews for BookTalk.org.
Chris - thanks for the kind comments about my blog, I'm just starting out so praise or suggestions are gratefully received You're clearly doing very well here at BookTalk - rightly so, it seems a great resource!
I haven't syndicated my reviews anywhere at present, but I'd definitely be interested in working on something together. If you would like to drop me a message or an e-mail please feel free, I'd be more than happy to have a chat about it.
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Re: Matthew: Librarian, Blogger, Bibliofreak!
Sal_McCoy wrote:
I like your review style. A lot of reviewers just retell the story and say whether they like the characters or not. You bring literary knowledge into the reviews and breakdown the writing.
Thanks for the compliment. I've got to agree that too many of the mainstream reviews simply outline the plot and a few of the general themes. As a Brit, I'm sorry to say that we seem particularly susceptible to this, and it has seeped into blogger's articles too. I find the US press far more insightful when it comes to literature, but sadly standards seem to be dropping across the board (pull up a review from twenty or thrity years ago - the complexity of the arguments and the repect for the reader is wonderful).
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You should check out Christopher Hitchens', Arguably. He has an amazing style and each review is well researched.
Thanks for the recommendation. I was fingering Hitchens's latest in a book shop just the other day. I really liked the title, and look forward to picking it up some day soon. I'm all for great reviews; I read a collection of Martin Amis's essays and reviews recently and found the boldness and intelligence hugely refreshing. Of course, for a good laugh I'd recommend Amis senior - he had some very 'interesting' views.
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Re: Matthew: Librarian, Blogger, Bibliofreak!
I'd only be interested in you doing exclusive reviews for BookTalk.org and not in a syndication. I don't want BookTalk.org Reviews elsewhere on the web. I'm more thinking about creating a book review section on BookTalk.org and having a few good writers do book reviews that are not published anywhere else on the web. I receive dozens of books from publishers and authors every month that could be passed along to book reviewers.
I'm just talking right now. I've wanted to do this for a long time and I just don't have much extra time to put together such a program.
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