This week, Booking Through Thursday asks: Do you read book reviews? Whose do you trust? Do they affect your reading habits? Your buying habits?
Of course I read book reviews. I am a book blogger. I get my reviews from a couple places. Namely other bloggers with similar tastes to mine and I also read reviews through the Washington Post and NPR's book blog. I trust all of those sources. If the review makes me interested in a book, I add it to my TBR list (check out my Goodreads link below and you'll see my TBR stands at well over 700 books! Eek and yay!).
I try very, very hard to get most of my books from the library. I would have to live in a cardboard box if I bought every single book that I read, which would be sad because I don't think all of my books would fit in the cardboard box and my husband and cats may be a little upset having to live outside and all. So anyway, the book buying must be constrained.
What say you? Where do you get your book reviews?
I read book reviews too. For one thing I always like to see what other people are reading. It's a good way of discovering new authors or finding someone who loves the same books as you.
ReplyDeleteYeah for using the library! Good for you - I do as much as I can though it is hard in my small town.
ReplyDeleteHere is my BTT Answer
Ha-Ha...yes, that old cardboard box would not be a fun place to read!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing...here's MY THURSDAY MEMES POST
Good reply.
ReplyDeletehere's mine:
http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2011/06/booking-through-thursday.html
I buy most of my books so I do a lot of checking around if I'm unsure of a book so I read lots of reviews.
ReplyDeleteSally.
http://theelifylop.blogspot.com/2011/06/booking-through-thursday-20.html
Great thoughts! And...I thought MY TBR list was long! :) That's OK, though...there's no such thing as having too many possibilities of things to read.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for commenting and following! I'm returning the favor.
Cindy @ Cindy's Book Club