Comments on: Good Riddance to Book-Review Sections? Quote of the Day (Steve Wasserman) http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/good-riddance-to-book-review-sections-quote-of-the-day-steve-wasserman/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/good-riddance-to-book-review-sections-quote-of-the-day-steve-wasserman/#comment-5913 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:17:52 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=810#comment-5913 Amanda: Didn’t you love that article on the “Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing”? Thanks so much for mentioning it. I haven’t brought it up only because it’s worth a separate post, which I haven’t had time to write.

For those of you who haven’t seen the article: Amanda has linked to a long list of cliches used by book reviewers, posted on the NYT book review blog. Some of these cliches were among those that prompted me to start the weekly Gusher Awards for Achievement in Hyperbole.

The remarkable thing is that the list, long as it is, doesn’t begin to cover them all. And the Times lets is own reviewers use a lot of them regularly.
Jan

]]> By: speedytexaslibrarian http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/good-riddance-to-book-review-sections-quote-of-the-day-steve-wasserman/#comment-5912 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:46:36 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=810#comment-5912 Jan and readers, you’ve probably already seen this, but just in case you haven’t:

Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing

]]> By: ggelliott http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/good-riddance-to-book-review-sections-quote-of-the-day-steve-wasserman/#comment-5911 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:07:29 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=810#comment-5911 [Sigh] And the book reviews have been what I’ve always grabbed the newspaper and searched for since I was junior-high age. And now also search for online; where, granted, quality ones are scarce.

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/good-riddance-to-book-review-sections-quote-of-the-day-steve-wasserman/#comment-5909 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:02:46 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=810#comment-5909 Thanks, GG. I liked Steve’s comments because the demise of book-review sections is often cast strictly in accounting terms, and the causes go way beyond that. Jan

]]> By: ggelliott http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/good-riddance-to-book-review-sections-quote-of-the-day-steve-wasserman/#comment-5908 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:38:01 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=810#comment-5908 I definitely agree with him. I also would suggest he bookmark One-Minute Book Reviews.

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