My Book Review ----- About those nifty "Tags"

When you create a book review or a blog entry there is a bar for us to type in tags .....  tags are like bread crumbs .... they help "you" find your content and others to find content similar to their likes 

here are some of my ideas on what to put in the tag bar

For book reviews there will be automatic tags that come up --- the author's name --- the Harlequin / Silhouette series ---- format of the book  ....... you don't have to worry about adding those, providing you've used the drop down lists to make the selections   ....  the tags I use are "keywords" that describe the book I'm reviewing --- for example .....

 if the book had a main character that suffered from amnesia ....... I would tag - amnesia

if the book had violence, ie war, killing, knife fight, explosions ...... I would tag - violence     -- Vikki's Her Perfect Life would have this tag, though she wrote her scenes very well

if the book had a lot of laugh out loud moments and was on a lighter side ..... I would tag - laughter

I recently read a series by Raye Morgan about a royal family ..... each book was about one of the royal siblings .... so I tagged - royalty, prince (princess depending on the main character)

I'm also tagging books as sweet, yummy, heat wave, very good, great, excellent  depending on where they fit .... and I would use the word erotic or paranormal too if that applied

I plan on reading a few Intrigues that will have some paranormal themes, one that comes to mind the heroine has intuitive powers, so I'll probably use the tag - ESP

I intend on reading more Medicals, so I instead of mentioning the type of medical content in my review (I couldn't figure out how to do that without giving the story away) I may use tags  ... ie epilepsy, graphic surgery, amputation, search and rescue, family doctor,  --- you get the idea

Also, I'd put the title of a mini-series in the Tag line ... the Raye Morgan series I just read was Catching the Crown, so I tagged that

If the book belonged to a theme, I would tag the name of the theme ... ie Greek Tycoons, Heart to Heart, Count of a Cop, Red-Hot Revenge, Home on the Ranch, etc.

I'm part of a Book Challenge Team ... so I'm putting our Team name - Quiet Canadians - on the tag line, so that the entries made by the teammates will all come up when you click on our team tag

tags can be limitless and wonderous things .... I just wish we could have "personal" tags and "public" tags ... that would really make it easy for us to find content within our own blogs that need not be shared ... like I might want to use the tag - Top 10 - to indicate this is worthy and for me to consider it at the end of the year for my Top 10 list

the "search" function of this new site is far superior to the old one ..... so think of all the possible tags you can use to help your own future searches

Sadhbh created a blog titled Tags ... check it out for ideas about tagging :)

~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog