My book reviews will be basic and structured. There are already numerous websites and other resources to get detailed book reviews. Anyone is welcome to comment on any book I read.
Review structure will include:
Title
Author
Sequential number for 2011.
My short view on:
Story/Plot
Characters
Numbered 1 to 5 rating.
1 – bad
2 – poor
3 – ok
4 – very good
5 – great
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I am not going to pick or post a dedicated list of books that I am going to read this year. I want flexibility to change my mind as the year progresses. My old Night of the Living Book Club logo is due a redesign. The original logo was drawn by a co-worker when I started the book club. I am not much of a sketch artist but I have enough items that I can take photographs and with some creative editing with Photoshop come up with something. I will post progress later in the week once I actually start this new project. 2011 New Year. I starting a new book club for 2011. Hard-boiled crime fiction is the focus. Possible names are
Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Charles Williams, Elmore Leonard, and James M. Cain are just some of the authors I will be looking at for book club selections. One of my 2011 goals is to read ALL of the Bram Stoker Award for Novel Winners. While I read the few that I own, I will need to acquire the rest from different sources, mainly online used ones. I do not plan to read the books in any specific order. The List:
I finally figured out what I can and can not do with the layout structure. I thought I had always understood the difference between pages and posts. After doing some searching on the structural difference, I read some answers to other’s questions to realize what I was trying to do with pages I need and can do with categories. Pages are static, best used for lists, tables, or unchanging data like some broad subject description. Archives, About, and Contact are examples of some of the most common. Layouts I like that I have seen elsewhere have: I will be trying different ones to see if they work for me.
I also started a Blogger site for the book club and challenge. http://nightofthelivingbookclub.blogspot.com/ The reading challenge uses the Bram Stoker Awards as inspiration. The main goal is to read one title from every year of the award for novel. I post additional challenges that include reading one title from every year of award for first novel, read the winners only from the novel award, and read specific horror themed authors by December 31st 2011. My personal goal is to read one title from every year of the Bram Stoker Award for novel and first novel. Additionally, read at least 2 books from Clive Barker, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz by December 31st 2011. Facebook game addiction? Is there such a thing? YES. So, as of the 15th of December I am going to stop playing ALL games on Facebook. I was going to wait until the end of the year but why wait any longer. I believe I got all I am going to get out of the game play. It was definitely fun while it lasted but time to move on. |
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