How To Write A Good Book Review Reviews

As I am now guiding books along with Malu - I though I would include just what I look for in a book review. Malu has already written an excellent piece on this. If you haven't already read it it can be found in the same category with this review. This review could be used as a general guideline for how to write well on many ...  Read the complete review

I love and fear reading book reviews. Love them because they help me choose the titles for my "must read list" Fear them because so often they reveal too much of the plot and even sometimes (usually unintentionally) whodunit! I will sometimes find myself reading them with my head turned half to the ...  Read the complete review

Well, today sees me celebrating my one-year Dooyoo-versary. I'm not sure where those twelve months have gone they flew by so fast! But I seem to have spent a fair bit of it here at Dooyoo. I thought, to mark the occasion, I might offer my advice and thoughts on how to review in my favourite category-Books. I can't remember how ...  Read the complete review

How to write a good book review Only 1,404 words long ========== Doz en Donuts ========== I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those writers to have written so many tidy reviews that have just fallen short of me falling asleep. So now I've learnt something here; don't read if prone to ...  Read the complete review

Where has the time gone? When I first joined Dooyoo I had no idea that I would one day be contemplating my 1000th review, but the time has come so I thought I would mark the occasion with a review centred around my favourite website of all! Instead of concentrating on Dooyoo as a whole, I thought I would give you my opinion ...  Read the complete review

Now, i am not an avid reader, but i found myself lost in this book. Unable to stop reading until the early hours when my eyelids got to heavy and i succumbed to exhaustion. This book had me gripped on tenterhooks, every turn of the page unfolding this great, interesting and terrifing story that is Twilight. I only ...  Read the complete review

You know you have been on dooyoo rather too long when you type in google + the subject you want to write about and your review sits on top of the google pile. That's pretty worrying really as someone may think my speakers corner drivel is important because it's atop that pile! And once you're atop the pile people press the first one and ...  Read the complete review

I guess the most important bit about writing a good book review is to be aware of what to leave out rather than what to include, by that I mean the most important thing not to do in a book review ( assuming here we are talking about fiction books for the moment ) is to include too much of the plot and under no circumstances should you ...  Read the complete review

This review was originally written when I started guiding the Books category. The guiding is no more, but the book review writing goes on (even if less on dooyoo than elsewhere). Hence a wee update.... At teh time of writing there were already five proper 'How to Write A Good Book Review' opinions up on the site and pretty ...  Read the complete review

I've been the guide for the books and magazine category for a while now and I thought I'd dust down and update this review. Needless to say this is not the only review you can read on the subject. The first thing to remember is that there is no right or wrong way of writing a book/magazine review! This might seem like ...  Read the complete review

Introduction: I've been lucky enough to receive Crowns for some of my book reviews here on Dooyoo and was so inspired by this that I went on to start my own book review website with fellow Dooyoo'er Trevor15. (It was one of The Independent newspapers "websites of the week" last month!) This alone probably ...  Read the complete review