Fantasy books, terrible advice, and random silliness
To celebrate literature, I wrote a collection of one-star and two-star reviews of my unpublished adult fantasy novel. Please enjoy.
I wrote and edited a whole book, which I’m now querying (looking for an agent to represent me to publishers).
No, it’s not out yet, and no, it doesn’t have reviews. But everyone on Twitter is writing one-star reviews of their own books, so I thought I’d join the fun.
Here’s a moodboard I made for it. You’ll have to excuse my lack of artistic talent, because, you know, dragons.
A summary of my foray into mega-popular books and what I learned from them.
Some time ago I set out to cleanse my palate by reading a collection of extremely successful books.
From my original list I successfully read (links to my reviews):
I failed to complete All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (27,246 reviews). Yes, it was a beautiful and poignant book about war and humanity and all that, it just didn’t interest me very much.
Continue reading “More mega-popular books I enjoyed reading”
I never used to understand people who wrote book reviews. You’ve already read the book, so writing a review isn’t going to help you decide whether to read it, and it’s an awful lot of effort.
But I’ve spent some time thinking about the matter, and I’ve concluded that there are five good reasons and two bad reasons to write a book review.
You have an opinion. In fact, you have many opinions. They’re all brilliant, and sharing them with the world will force everyone to acknowledge how brilliant you are. And, perhaps more importantly, how right you are.
