How to add a Book Review to the 100,000 Book Challenge

Thank you Lorie for the above instructions. I thrive much better with someone telling me what to do in a new or unfamilar situation, although I have been negotiating around the new site and think it is great!!

congrats!!

 Linda

Remembering that online reads don't count, let's discuss the "best practices" way to add a "Book Review" once we've read enough minis or novellas or other shorts to add up to "one book."

I'm thinking we should do a title like

"Five Minis to Equal One Book".  And then within the "Book Review" each blogger should include the title and author (and source? do we want people to include the source?) of each story.

Another nit-picky point is, should a group of shorts all be either Harlequin or non-Harlequin?  For each line, we could put the lines in the "tags" field ourselves I think. IMHO a group should all be either Harlequin or not so that the percent at year-end is correct.

What do y'all think? Good idea, bad idea, good idea but should tweak it here and there?

Penn 

I'm with you Penn. I like to see at least the title of the book in teh subject line, though it's nice to see author as well. But i can live with just the title so long as the author is listed in the body of the review. And I'm on my way over to add my first entry to teh challenge blog right now.

and to make it uniform (if the powers that be here at eHarl agree) and they need to do is edit the text for the form that comes up for the review to read "Title and author"   ..... that should be a fairly easy fix and I think a valuable one

thanks for posting the question of the multiple novella / minis ..... I hadn't bookmarked this discussion in my favourits and totally forgot it was here, so I asked over in the Ask Lorie and Jayne LOL   ..... but this is definitely the place to discuss that issue  .... so I"m no adding this discussion to my favourites too :D 

I like that! I don't like that we have to click through to see the full blog but I guess I understand why they do that. But i REALLY hate when you take the extra time to click through only to find nothing there.

over in the "Ask Jayne and Lorie" thread that made me post! You're inspiring!

Penn 

sending an email.  I think that's an excellent idea b/c people aren't getting everywhere that they need to get to (yet) and so aren't seeing all the info that they need to see.

You deserve a day or evening of pampering!

Penn 

or at least it's working in Internet Explorer 7    .... not sure about the other browsers out there

PS --- sorry you were one without hydro ... wicked wind storms we've been having ...... though when you have that screen play done you'll have to invite your girls to put on a play for us

I hope I'm asking this in the right place....Isn't Gold Eagle a Harlequin imprint?  I see the Rogue Angel books as an option but I'm currently reading the first book in the Room 59 series and I don't see an option for that or any of the other Gold Eagle books for the book review drop down menu.  Help!

But what do I use on the drop down menu for them?  Worldwide Mysteries?  There isn't a category for them....

I'll add Gold Eagle as a tag.  I don't use the tags as I'm not really familiar with the best way but that makes sense even to me!

We talked about this some at the old site but I figured back then we'd work out the details once we were up and running here.

So, when a book has two full-length novels in it (e.g. some of the Signature Selects, the Duets, the Nora Roberts and Betty Neels reprints), what do we think is the best way to handle it?  Donna Alward did a Book Review of one of the Betty Neels combos and I told her to do it like this.

Book Review #1

in the title line = Title of Story#1 by Betty Neels (in Anthology's Title by Betty Neels)

Then to do her review of just that story#1

Book Review #2

in the title line = Title of Story#2 by Betty Neels (in Anthology's Title by Betty Neels)

Then to do her review of just that story#2

What do y'all think? Tweak it for me, please.

And since no one's coming here to tell me to stop being bossy or that my ideas are good, bad or unnecessary, do we just pass the word as we see these things happen?

Penn hoping SOMEONE (in addition to Lorie) comes by

Hi Penni

For an edition that contains more than one book, this is how I would review them ...............

Example:  Under His Skin collection of stories by Lori Foster, Linda Lael Miller, Carla Neggers 

to know that this edition has previously published books, simply look at the copyright page .... if the copy right dates beside the authors name is different than the copy right on the edition, than you are reading previously published books ...

so for this edition there would be THREE reviews

Review # 1

Outrageous by Lori Foster <------- Title line

Body:  This book is read from "Under His Skin" a collection of stories by various authors   (or something to that effect --- you could actually list all the stories and their authors with their original publ. dates)  ----- and your review

---

Review # 2

Snowflakes on the Sea by Linda Lael Miller <---- title line

Body: This book is read from "Under His Skin" a collection of stories by various authors (or something to that effect)  ---- and your review

---

Review # 3

Bewitching by Carla Neggers  <------ Title line

Body:  This book is read from "Under His Skin" a collection of stories by various authors (or something like that)  ----- and your review

--------------- perhaps, only ONE of the stories in this edition is new to you (you've read the others within the last 12 months) ...... then simply review the story that is new to you .... though I would still comment from what edition you've read it

................ I think this is what you were saying Penni!

if you click over to the "Introduction and Rules" thread here under the Book Challenge board, Lorie outlines the basic rules in her header ....

but in short, as you know anthologies are book editions that contain a number of novellas .... for the purpose of the Book Challenge, anthology editions are classed as ONE book

if you are reading "novellas" on their own, you may save the novella in a private blog and add more novellas until you have about about 200 pgs combined / 50K words .... once you have enough to equal a book you can do a "book review" on all the novellas

hope that helps!

Well you guys did a great job of straightening me out, lol.  I love the new format here btw.  I am more excited about this book challenge than the last.  I don't read nearly as much as some, but I am trying to shrink my tbr pile.

I say that but I bought Nat Anderson's first Presents (Modern Heat) yesterday.  :-)

 Donna

KatherineT.  I think your idea is great. That is the way I did it last year. It worked for me.

Next thought.....how many pages would equal a book. When I read "It's a Wonderful Life" there were three stories, but one was a lot shorter, so I ran all three as one book.

Lorie

were you answering Bonsal?

2 questions about audiobooks. 

Quetion 1 - Do plays that are produced as audiobooks count as audiobooks?  I listen to a lot of audiobooks because of my drive to work and sometimes the only version of a book available is a dramatized play version not an actual reading of the book.

Question 2 - There have also been times that I have listened to a dramatized version and the unabridged version of a book becuase the dramatized sounded interesting but I also wanted to hear the full story.  Should I write these as 1 review or 2.

Thanks

Last year I reviewed Diana Palmer's Texas Ranger ... the edition was an audio from Audible ..... as this was the first experience with this book, this counted as a book for the Challenge .... I later read a print edition of the book, and though I did review it, it did not count towards a book in the Challenge ..... I called it a Re-Read and reviewed it outside the Challenge with comments about my experience of the same book in the two different formats   .....  the re-read rules are easy to remember ..... if you have read the book (regardless of format) within the last 12 months, it is a reread    .....

ooops, Lorie I didn't see your post!  LOL ........ this is the longer winded version of what Lorie just said! 

I think it is a good idea as sometimes you get a message in the window and sometimes not.  I have blogs were all it lists on the main page is the title, author and to get to the blog you have to click and then there is a full blog, while we still have people who are only listing, so the NFM would at least keep me from clicking and then finding out there is nothing.

Cady

short review or long review as tags

Really confused as to why some reviews show a first paragraph and other (equally long) reviews don't

We'll get there eventually

Hugs

Sadhbh