Book Reviewing Gifts

'Read any good book reviews lately?'

"In my spare time, I write reviews on Goodreads."

Randy, if you were stranded on an island, what's the one book you'd want to have along with you? Easy: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. It's got the perfect heft to knock coconuts out of trees. Well, I'd like to have How to Get off an Island, by Archie MacGuyver. That title's actually a metaphor for overcoming shyness. We really should have our own book review show.

"Rate this book: 3 stars out of 5."

'The end. Well, time for bed. What are you writing?'

"But you got some good reviews too, yeah?"

"Oh wow, you won't believe what happens at the end!"

"I loved your next book!"

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"

"Mom, please! I'm a married woman whose friends have been reviewed favourably by the New York Times."

Can't Touch This

"It's just one bad review and we all know who wrote it."

"I like his earlier work better, particularly the ones I said I didn't like at the time."

'After researching our dream vacation online with reviews, commentaries, we cams and pictures, we felt we'd been there and didn't need the trip!'

"Moby Richard by Herman Melville" "Wonderful! Not sure about the title—let's discuss editor."

Learn to Be a Critic In The Privacy Of Your Own Home With The Apex Correspondence School Of Criticism!

"Be careful of that sun, Stewart. You're starting to look like the front page of the 'Times Book Review.'"

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

No, no, Grok, we love your creative voice! Ort is just here to do a little punch-up.

'Mummy, the review of this book was more interesting.'

"It's a great story, funny and entertaining - and better still it's not won a single prize for literature."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Book publishing.

Dog writes a review: 'A sublime book, I devoured it in one sitting ...'

Gingerbread man sits at desk marked food editor

The Music Critic.

"Which should we go see: the straight romantic comedy where the heroine's best friend is a gay man, or the gay romantic comedy where the hero's best friend is a straight woman?"

'I preferred her in the margarine commercial.'

'Horace spends his spare time being a rock critic.'

Performance reviews in Hell.

Reviewing a Scientific Paper - Etiquette for References.

"I feel bad about Nora Ephron's neck."