book blogger hop! (3)

Book Blogger Hop is a meme from crazy-for-books. This weekend's question is:

When you write reviews, do you write them as you are reading or wait until you have read the entire book?

I don't write the review until I'm done with the entire book. I don't even really think about a review until I've finished the book. I'm still getting used to reviewing books, it's only been a few months! Once I'm done it's smart for me to write the review asap so that its all fresh in my mind. And it's usually good for me to sit on the review for a few days before I post it. It gives me a chance to really solidfy my thoughts and change or add to the review. Many times it takes a few days for my thoughts on a book to solidify. And I don't write reviews for every book I read. Sometimes I just have nothing to share.

book blogger hop (2)

Post a link to a favorite post or book review that you have written in the past three months.

In July I was putting together a booklist and I was looking for books that boys would like. Here's the post. I'd love recommendations of recent boy books is you've any ideas.

meme from crazy-for-books

book blogger hop (1)

Book Blogger Hop is a meme from Crazy for Books. This is my first week participating! The question is:

How many books do you have on your 'to be read shelf’?

I'm actually afraid to find out.

I attended ALA this past June in Washington DC and got a lot of books. I am excited about all of them. They taunt me. 

I usually have 20-30 books checked out on my library card. I work at a library and I just can't help myself! But out of all the books I checkout, I probably only get about 10% of them read before they need to be returned. I have a constant fine on my card which is ridiculous since I'm at the library practically every day.


Lastly, I review books for a middle school librarian who runs a blog geared towards school media centers. There are about 10 of us who review for her. She gets books from publishers and every few weeks I stop by and pick up a few. I have six in that pile right now. Begging to be read. 

I wish (more often than I'd like to admit) that Hogwarts was real and that I wasn't a muggle and that Hermione would loan me her time turner. Just so I could sleep/read/work all at the same time.  Sadly, fantasy is just that--fantasy.