Disclaimer – I’m British, so I don’t think the FTC rules apply to me, but just in case – the vast majority of the books I review I’ve bought for myself. Because something attracted me to it, and because I wanted to enjoy the experience. So I have a vested interest in any book I [...]

Well it isn’t ALL her fault and I do plan on bringing up the EVER loved topic of reviews more later but avid reader posted about Susan Wiggs Fireside reviews on you know THAT PLACE…. ::whispers::amazon::/whispers:: and her response to a few bad reviews.

This was first posted on 12/16/07 As I have been thinking a lot on reviews and grading (again) I figured you guys should be too . If you commented before (click the date it was first posted) do you still think the same? If you missed the post the first time what are your thoughts? [...]

TGTBTU is a reader blog.  We are for readers by readers and everything I do – event, news or feature wise – is for readers just like us.  TGTBTU is very author friendly or at least I think we are.  If you are an author that doesn’t like to see honest opinions, thinks there should be [...]

This was first published Dec 4, 2007. Seems like a good time for a retro post…. Many questions are asked of how we grade things around here. Below is a quick reminder of what it means to be judged by the Pond. Review Grades A+ Squee worthy. Fantastic “keeper shelf” shelf material. So damn good [...]

I have been reading a ton of ‘not my normal kind of reads’ lately. I thought about not reviewing them but something made me read them. So where I may have loved some, been eh about some and was very WTF about others they still seem to be worth talking about. One I invested the [...]

A while back I discovered many of you see C grades differently than we do here. I thought it was a very interesting discussion and was reminded of it while reading the 60+ comments (from mostly authors) on that thread over there. As normal most of the authors say they don’t mind ‘reviews’ and as [...]

This started out as a short lil comment on this post, regarding “DNF Reads” [aka did not finish]. I, as I tend to do, went off on a ramble. So hey new post! Caroline Linden brought up the DNF thing but this post in whole is in no way directed AT her. Wanted to make [...]

Does your opinion matter at all? Barbara Vey, who blogs for PW has a post up today called, “Reading the Book: A Novel Approach to Reviewing.” Yes, yes.  I hear you groaning now, “Dear god, please, not THAT!”  But after reading Richelle Mead’s whinepost on BAM’s blog about the evol that is amazon and blog [...]

Question I would love for anyone and everyone to answer…. I know it has been talked about over and over but I have been giving letter grades a bit of thought over the past few days. I never ‘graded’ reviews before I was apart of AAR. So that pretty much shaped my view of what [...]

Come on, wanna guess where the quote came from? I know I said, maybe once or twice I was done. Finished with the topic. It was dead to me. And being as this is Alluring Tales week it isn’t on topic… but dude I have been on topic for three days. In a row! So [...]

Damn we are barely waiting six months to rehash things…Sit… Stay… Roll Over… Play Dead first posted on 1/6/06 and because there is never enough said about reviewing. You had to see this coming If you have visited Keishon aka avid reader’s blog in, oh say the last few days, you may have heard of [...]