Read a new review every day, Monday through Friday! The staff of the Williamsburg Regional Library in Virginia bring you short reviews of books, movies, and more!
Launched in April of 2007, Blogging for a Good Book is the newest facet of the Looking for a Good Book readers’ service. A different staff member picks favorite reviews for each different week. Subscribe to our RSS feed to find good reviews, or click on the categories on the righthand side to see everything in your favorite area.
We gently discourage authors from sending us copies of their books, because we cannot promise that our staff will read or review unsolicited materials. We find that the blog’s success depends on the reviewers’ being able to write freely about books of their own choosing.
We welcome comments on our site, though we reserve the right to edit or remove comments that are uncivil or abusive. And while we are always thrilled to hear from authors, we ask that you not use our site to promote your works. Discussing a book that we’ve blogged about is fine; self-promoting books that we haven’t endorsed is not.
Gotta say… I love this blog! I’m sad (and encouraged?) that not too many leave comments (truthfully, I’m a very good lurker). Keep on! You are doing a wonderful job here.
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I enjoy the reviews from Blogging for a Good Book, and have emailed a number of them to friends. I look forward to reading them each day. Thank you for this wonderful service!
thyrkas,
Thanks for your kind words. We are delighted that you are enjoying the posts and sharing them. It’s the best way to build and support the community of readers. All the best.
Barry
Simple, clean design, great variety and excellent organization–I love reading the blog!
I adore this blog! Stumbled across it by fortunate chance, and have been writing down reviews. I think it might have been through Unshelved, the library comic.
Thanks, Dale. We’re glad you enjoy the posts.
Barry
I am still new to the library and recently decided to investigate this blog. The combination of on-going professional library staff reviews/input with patron comments is both new and seems like a powerful combination to me. I plan to try it out over the days and weeks ahead. I am quite open to advice & counsel on the best and/or most appropriate way to comment in this blog.
I am not sure if this is the right place or way but I’ll try. My wife called my attention to a new book “The Wise Advisor: What Every Professional Should Know About Consulting and Counseling” by Jeswald W. Salacuse. I see that it has a five star review on Amazon (included website) but only by one person. I was wondering if anyone reading this post has experience with or any impression of either this book or the author.
I like alternate history fiction by authors such as Eric Flint, S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, the team of Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, et.al. Thus, I would like to see reviews and patron comments about such books. I searched for their names but other than mention of them in reviews about books by other authors did not find any reviews about their works. Is there sufficient interest in this fiction niche to justify such reviews and a category for it?
Is there a way to comment on a category? It seems to me that such an ability would provide patrons with a more focused way to provide input on authors of interest and might generate broader patron discussion.
As far as I see, patrons can only comment in About and on individual reviewed books. If I am missing something, I would appreciate someone advising me on how to use this blog in a more effective way.
I stumbled on this site by accident while looking for a good book recommendations blog- this is exactly what I was looking for! This site has really interesting reviews and is extremely well-organized- I love the tag system. Thank you!
Saraswathi, thanks for the kind words. We are glad that you find the posts here interesting and useful. Happy reading.
Barry
May I send you a copy of a chapbook at no charge for consideration to be listed on your web listing? Thank You Mickey Burriss
I Wish I Was Hosey Hitchcock
by Mickey Burriss
Overtime a publication of Blue Cubicle Press, LLC, Plano, Texas, 2007
30 pages, $2.50 (paperback)
SYPONSIS:
The setting is a small South Carolina mill town during 1944, showing a boy and old loom fixer working at odd jobs.
Excerpt: Reviewed by William B. Kaliher:
“In I Wish I Was Hosey Hitchcock the preteen Nicky takes the reader through his expanding world as he searches for work, independence and boyhood pleasures. Nicky, like the lucky among us, bumps into adults, true heroes, who incidentally teach the values that ensure a better life. Hosey is one such mentor.”
I have written for The State and Anderson Independent Mail news papers, Living in South Carolina, the magazine for electric cooperatives, Small Farmer’s Journal and HCI Books. My fiction has appeared in The First Line and Blue Cubicle Press. I writes full time and is a member of the South Carolina Writers Workshop, attending their critique groups and workshops. The Sandhills Writers Conference in Augusta, Georgia I also enjoy.
Mickey,
Thanks for visiting the site. You may send us your book, but I don’t want to mislead you. It is unlikely that we would review it. The traditional review journal model assigns titles to reviewers, but BFGB has a different purpose than Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, etc. We deliberately do not assign specific titles to our reviewers, instead letting them choose whatever materials they like, regardless of publication date, author, popularity, etc.
Dear Jessica, Thank you for answering my request. If you will please give me your mailing address, I’ll send you a copy. Thank you , MIckey BUrriss
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What I still fail to understand is a huge flurry at the end. ,
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Love this website! Thanks for all the great reviews.
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Thanks!
Congratulations. Your blog has been nominated for our Library Blog Awards. In fact, your blog was suggested more than once. We’re in the process of assembling information about all those nominated and will be sending a short questionaire, including the categories of awards and the judges involved. Would you please send me your email address so that I can send you the questionaire? If your email is on your blog, I couldn’t locate it.
Thanks in advance,
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Hi,
love the blog, but I’d like to subscribe via email instead of RSS feed. Will checking the box below do that?
If not, Feedburner has a widget that lets readers subscribe to a blog and then get an email of each new post. More info here: http://wordpress.jdwebdev.com/blog/feedburner-email/
Can you add it to your blog?
thanks very much
ted
Ted,
Thanks for the great suggestion! You’ll see our new email-subscription link on the right-hand side, near the top.
This is a great resource and I look forward to using it. FOR BOOK GROUPS – Check out my new Blog, “WILLIAMSBURG BOOK GROUPS BLOG”, at
http://vgussman.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/welcome-to-the-williamsburg-book-clubs-blog/
I look forward to seeing you there and chatting about how our book groups function, sharing ideas, and having fun!
Hi, Tory. I am glad that you like the blog. I hope that your Book Group blog will attract readers from our local book clubs. It could be a useful resource for book groups in the area.
Hi, I am Michael Cow. I am really appreciate toward your awesome blog. You gives me so great value by reviewing so many books. Good luck for you!
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Nice Blog… I always look for new books and truly speaking, I haven’t read any book which are reviewed on your blog since Jan 2012.
Keep Reviewing…
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Great Blog!
I only have limited time to read books, but thank you for the reviews. It just cuts the time I spend looking for good reads.
I just discovered your site and am really enjoying it!
Thanks!
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Love your blog! I am a bookworm and love readings. As a visitor to local library, I highly recommend this website, which helps users borrow good books from library.
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I am not sure how you include books on your blog, but if it is possible, will you please make mine available somewhere?
I will appreciate it so much!
Thanks!
Chris.
I nominated you for the Liebester Award! If you didn’t get a notification I provided the link below. I wanted to nominate you because I do enjoy your reflections and you actually inspired me to add “read a good book” on my bucket list to comeplete before I’m 25 (I have little over a year to go). This might not seem like a big accomplishment, but it is for me. I literally only remember reading maybe 3 books in my entire life. I’ve despised reading for so long and did not find enjoyment in it. You inspired to enjoyment in reading in me again.
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What a brilliant idea, a group of librarians (all, I assume, passionate readers) clubbing together in this way – buy one, get a bundle of others free!
I have nominated you for The Bouquet of Three Award. The rules are posted on my blog. You deserve it!
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