I love writing book reviews. They help me:
- Look smart. I mean, look at how much I read! I must be smart.
- Learn from others. Articulating what I do and don’t like in a book will help me revise my own novel, if I ever get off my ass to do such a thing.
- Practice writing. I haven’t touched my novel since the last day of NaNoWriMo 2008, so I have to do something to keep my fingers limber.
But I’ve started to wonder: Do others get as much out of my reviews as I do? And what, exactly, are they reading for? So tell me…
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