Finished reading: The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin 📚
Meh.
dave I used to be an arts critic. Music, film, theatre, and occasionally, books. I don’t love long-form criticism of everything (just some things, and then, only by some writers) and for a long while I’ve wanted to start a review site where every review had to be 100ch or less.
Matthew Hurst I try to keep mine to a sentence. From scrolling Goodreads, I know I don’t want 500 words of high school plot synopsis. I want the pub version -‘just read this, it’s great/meh/crap. Bit like [one other book]. Good thing/bad thing.‘ Nothing more.
Maybe there’s a website in this…
annie's micro(b)log @matthewhurst Yep, that’s usually the review type I’m looking for as well. Especially from trusted sources. If I know I have similar reading taste/interests to someone, all I really need is a thumbs up or down.
annie's micro(b)log @matthewhurst …A website for micro-reviews would be very cool, especially with multiple contributors.
Matthew Hurst trusted sources matter. I do like to have a tiny indicator of tone just so I know whether outs high falutin’ or junk. I read both, depending on mood.
Matthew Hurst maybe some way to pull chosen contributors’ book reviews on here together?
dave I’ve always been a fan of the old “I wrote you a long letter because I didn’t have time to write a short one” line that’s often attributed to Mark Twain (but was also SuPpOsEdLy expressed by Blaise Pascal, Ben Franklin, and Cicero, among others). Writing short criticism is harder.