Help me pick my 50th Review!
I was looking at my reviews today and I realized : after finishing the one I’m working on (The Widow’s Season), I’ll be writing my 50th review!
I can’t believe I’ve written this many reviews. I feel like I’m still new at this, and yet… 50! I’m kind of impressed – I have a shameful track-record of beginning a new blog and abandoning it, again and again and again.
So today, I decided to ask your help!
I have a HUGE pile of books to be reviewed, that I read since the beginning of 2009 and just haven’t looked back at since. (What do you want me to do? Procrastinator is my middle name). Not surprisingly, some of these are the more “serious” books, those that I feel a little less “qualified” to review. I promise though, I will listen to your voice and review the book you chose!
Here’s the list! Just leave me a message with your vote for 1 or 2 books, and you can also add a little message on why you pick that one. Or why you think procrastination is bad. Or better yet, make me feel better by telling me how many more books than me you have on your “to be reviewed” pile! (Or totally worst if you have less!) Really, comment away! 🙂
- The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
- Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan
- Watchmen, by Alan Moore
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
- Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History, by Patrick Hunt
- Casting Spells, by Barbara Bretton
- That Summer, by Sarah Dessen
- Cracked up to Be, by Courtney Summers
- The Pleasure of my Company, by Steve Martin
- Moon Called, by Patricia Briggs
- The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- The Vampire Diaries, 1, by L. J. Smith
There are a couple missing, for various reasons (like the second Vampire Diaries book, which obviously I won’t review before the first one! Or Prey, because I’d first like to do a “group review” of the three first books, and a few others like that!) I think a list of 12 titles is enough though. If you really want to challenge me, vote number 1 or 11. Not that they were bad, but they’re such classics, I don’t know how to talk about them.
I’ll probably post the review on Monday or Thursday or Wednesday next week, so you have a few days to vote! 🙂
The Bell Jar. I don’t have any reviews pending. I take my blog as a journal, so I jot down as I go along or as soon as I finish, not minding if I post a review or just impressions or just a passage or two. Hehehe, don’t hate me! Anyway, congratulations on your 50th review. I never really counted mine, so.. wondering what number I am on now. 😀
I vote for either Watchmen or Moon Called, mostly just because I’m interested in your opinion on both of them.
I have 5 reviews to go, so I’m not doing so well on keeping up myself. I find that when I read classics, it’s best not to review them like I review everything else but just write down my own thoughts.
While I loved The Awakening by Kate Chopin I’m going to vote for something more light and fun: Casting Spells by Barbara Bretton. Really I’m just dying for someone to read it and tell me if I should.
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The Bell Jar or The Awakening, I think. 🙂
I vote for The Pleasure of my Company since I haven’t read any reviews of it.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin! I’ve been interested in this one for a while, but haven’t heard much about it!
Also, congrats on reaching 50 reviews! I have, I think, 2 books in my review queue, but I have a bunch of posts on the go. I try to write them as soon after finishing the book as possible so I can have everything fresh in my mind, but clearly that doesn’t always happen!
Bell Jar or the Awakening – Bell Jar because I absolutely love hearing what people think about it – and the Awakening because I want to read a review before I jump into it 😉
Congrats on fifty reviews!
I’ll vote for Casting Spells or The Pleasure Of My Company! I’m not really familiar with either, and I’d love to add them to ye ole TBR 🙂
Haha, thanks everyone! Looks like you all decided to challenge me 😉 It’s okay though, since eventually everything in that pile will get its own review!
Meghan : That’s a good idea, and I think that’s exactly what I’ll do! Give my impressions rather than “reviewing” it. I already feel like I would have much more to say this way.
Steph : I do something similar, too, although not exactly. Obviously I don’t write my reviews immediately after reading a book, but I do take a few quick notes of things I like and things I didn’t. It’s true that it helps keeping the first impressions fresh on our mind!
I would love to read your review of The Awakening by Kate Chopin. I reviewed her book myself recently ( http://thereadingjourney.blogspot.com/2009/07/review-awakening.html ), so I would love to see what you thought about it.
I’m going to vote for Watchmen, because I’ve read it and I’m curious what you think.
No, Vampire Diaries! *ahem* I vote for the Vampire Diaries. 🙂
There are lots of great books on that list, though.
I know you’ve done your number 50 review but please, please do a review for The Bell Jar. I’d love to see what you think of it. 😀
Lady Lazarus : No, no! I haven’t done it yet! 🙂 It will be posted at the beginning of next week, so there’s still time to “vote”! 🙂 So far it looks like it will be either The Bell Jar or The Awakening! But every book will get reviewed eventually 😉
If it isn’t too late to cast a vote, I would like to see a review of either “Casting Spells” or “Bonjour Tristesse”. The first one is on my TBR list and the second one was on the list but I took it off. I’d like to get an opinion as to whether either one of them is worth reading.