PSA

[conuly]

Apparently, all the Animorphs books are available for free as ebooks. Legally, I mean.

So if you ever wanted to introduce your kids to the series, well, now's the time!

Also: Amazon Unveils Prime Book Box for Kids

Relatedly, many years ago I went through the positively herculean effort of cataloguing all of our 850+ picture books. I reviewed them, carefully crossposting each review to three sites, and I labeled each book with its guided reading level... something which involved me doing way more research into reading leveling systems than I ever wanted to do.

I've been backburnering a plan to review all our chapter books ever since.

Over on books there is one person who doggedly has been posting reviews there for months and months. She's currently the only one. This seems sadder to me than if there was nobody posting there at all. Meanwhile, I know lots of people I read who post book reviews on their journals. I don't want to suddenly swamp her with my kidlit reviews, because that's weird, but for some reason a whole bunch of people suddenly posting there seems less weird to me. If some of you agree to crosspost your reviews at books - or even just post a link to your primary site when you review a book - I guess I'll suck it up and start the tedious business of re-reading all our books and reviewing them in, um, four places.

_{shit we have a lot of books. this is a scary proposition.}

Comments

[glinda]

I greatly admire that level of dedication to a project, but having tried my hand a dw community revival a few times I feel a deep sympathetic desire to help them out by making my own posts. (I suspect that I never actually joined books before because it was mostly dead.) I'm wanting to read more non-fiction books this year, so I'll bite and commit to reviewing my non-fiction reads over there.

(Also... you catelogued 850+ picture books, that is a LOT of picture books!)

[conuly]

(Also... you catelogued 850+ picture books, that is a LOT of picture books!)

It would've been easier to redirect a river through my house.

[wpadmirer]

I just joined "books" and will make an effort to post some of the things I read. Book review sites should have reviews! Of all kinds of books!

And it is sad she's been posting alone.

[conuly]

Hilariously, I kinda thought I'd get some response from the dozen or so people I read who already post reviews weekly or monthly but thus far it seems not. (Edit: Unless I forgot and you're one of them, in which case sorry.)

[wpadmirer]

No, I don't post reviews. I talk a bit about the books I've read, but no formal reviews.

[dark_phoenix54]

I do that on talkbooks over on LJ- no one else has posted in years, but I figure maybe someone might be reading. So I've joined books and now there can be two people posting....

[conuly]

Yay!

[monanotlisa]

Haha, your small print.

...that is scary, though. Why re-read, if you recall? You could just write 'em.

[conuly]

I read pretty quickly!

And sometimes I misremember things, so I want to make sure I'm being accurate.

[archersangel]

i've posted a few things at books as well as book-love, where that other poster also posts. i don't really do many book reviews because i can't seem to articulate why i liked or didn't like a book.
over at LJ i post to bookish, where a few people still post & to book_buzz, where i'm the only one posting.

[oracne]

Noted for when I am back home.

[dreamkist]

Thanks for the Animorphs link! I've been nostalgic for my favorite 90s/early 00s books.

[fred_mouse]

Thank you for the animorphs link, this is Relevant To Eldest's Interests (I'm still buying the books for them, when I can find them)

Also, have joined books, and will possibly remember to review there.

[lusentoj]

Oh wow! I wonder if you can get them for free in any other languages...

Is that comm for ANY kind of book? If so I can start posting reviews of what I'm reading. I have a goal to read as many books as possible in the next two months anyway.

[conuly]

Is that comm for ANY kind of book?

As far as I'm concerned, the sky's the limit.

[lusentoj]

Alright, cool. I'm 2/3rds of the way done with reading my first novel in japanese (that's not a translation), I'll review that... *rubs hands together*

[humantales]

This was perfectly timed for me, as I’m just starting to review books on my blog. (And posting on it.). So I’m linking to those. Thanks for the note!