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a reader s respite pages home this is me and they lived happily ever after the end i ve been trying to think of a way to release this post with as little fanfare as possible you see after eight years of talking about books authors reading and anything else that came to mind i had made the decision to shut down a reader s respite this isn t a huge decision for me it s simply time to close up shop it has been a fabulous eight years and i ve been extremely fortunate to have met some of the most talented writers publishers and most of all readers through this little venture of mine i ve seen the book blogging world evolve a million different ways some wonderful and others not so much but all of them instructive and i wouldn t trade the experience for anything if there s one thing i can be certain of it s that rumors will surround this decision let me put any rumors to rest right now my decision to close up shop has been a long time in coming and a decision that has taken months to make final there was no one event that led this decision although i d be remiss if i didn t admit that the direction the book blogging world has taken over the last few years has certainly changed the flavor of the community some of these changes such as the unique blogs that gave us something different from the standard read and review formats have been refreshing and welcome other changes that came with the influx of book bloggers detracted from the community and in some cases even tore holes in it we went from a small supportive community who celebrated the love of the printed word to a something larger and more fractional this is i believe part of diversifying change is inevitable always a reader s respite for whatever it s worth will remain planted here on blogspot i ve removed all copyright to the reviews contained here should anyone come along who finds any need of a review here although i cannot fathom why anyone would they are welcome to them i ll still be writing just not in this venue other opportunities have arisen and i ll be focusing on those instead which i find a more creative outlet i ll still be writing book reviews on amazon goodreads and facebook if you find yourself over on twitter please do say hello mjscribbles i m trying to be better with instagram and pinterest so if you have accounts there do find me i value all the friendships i ve made even those that have been tested and wish all of you the very best in the unforgettable words of edward r murrow goodnight and good luck posted by unknown at sunday february 22 2015 let s talk about re reads re reads reading a book for a second third or even more times i was thinking about this the other day as i hit the play button on my audiobook began my second or is it third i can t remember re read of hilary mantel s amazing novel wolf hall because let s be honest i have and i say this in the literal sense hundreds of books in my home that have been read zero times and given my previous calculations involving my expected life span and average reading it seems mighty dangerous to waste any dedicated reading time on re reading a book that s already been enjoyed so why would i live so dangerously close to the edge as it turns out i only re read books if they fall in two specific categories category a good books that are either a part of a series that the author takes their damn sweet time cranking out the next book necessitating a re read of the last book in the series to refresh your memory in order to obtain maximum enjoyment out of the most recent release in the series this nurtures a love hate relationship with the author but can be avoided by simply waiting for the entire series to be written before picking up book 1 to begin with essentially if you find yourself in this trap it s your own damned fault although it happens to the best of us other books that might fall in this category are books you enjoyed that have finally been adapted to the screen and you want to refresh your memory so you can properly rip apart the screen production and feel the right amount of angst when they completely decimate what was a darned good book category b these books are your absolute favorite books of all time but it s not as simple as it sounds because what may have been your favorite reads ever can be completely ruined by a re read i mean are you ever going to recapture that amazing feeling invoked by your favorite novel twenty years ago you might be treading dangerous waters here case in point my re read of wuthering heights at age 40 turned my favorite novel from my teens from a nostalgic warm fuzzy in my heart into a serious eye rolling wall banger with me muttering oh grow the fuck up every other page after 25 years the novel was knocked off my all time favorites list and that a serious repercussion one must be wary indeed as i pushed play on mantel s novel wolf hall i made sure to ask myself whether this was a good idea the bbc will be presenting a mini series of the booker prize winning novel in just a few months and i have high hopes for the production the audiobook version of the novel narrated by simon slater is utterly brilliant given that reading the novel with it s present tense narration is difficult at best slater as if by magic elucidates mantel s story like no internal reading voice ever could believe me i tried three times with the dead tree version to no avail it took the audiobook version before i understood it and then it was magical so i feel pretty safe with this re read i m nearly half through and still finding lines and bits here and there that i somehow missed the last time how that make me laugh out loud am i sacrificing an unread novel sitting here that will probably now never get read probably it s worth it what makes you re read a book posted by unknown at monday january 26 2015 44 comments labels reading habits the nbcc finalists the national book critics circle awards are probably something all book reviewers should pay attention to even if book awards aren t normally your thing even if your reviews don t show up regularly on the pages of the nyt book review if you ve ever written a book rant on goodreads or squee d on your book blog like it or not you are a book critic so take a gander at what your fellow critics you know the ones who actually get paid for spewing forth the same subjective bullshit we do chose as the best of the best of 2014 awards will be presented on march 12 2015 betting pool anyone posted by unknown at friday january 23 2015 30 comments labels book awards nbcc biblio what posted by unknown at wednesday january 21 2015 16 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom books i ve reviewed goodread s reviews the house of silk by anthony horowitz traditionally i am not a fan of any books that try to replicate a classic author s work i ve tried them and they have all failed for me most recently was the disaster of the monogram murders where a modern author tried to write agatha snow glass apples by neil gaiman oh goodness okay i should admit that i m not a huge huge love everything he s ever written gaiman fan i ve liked a lot of his work ocean at the end of the lane coraline etc but have yet to really fall head over heels for him the headmaster s wife by thomas christopher greene hmph started off like gangbusters well sort of i have a thing for boarding school prep school books no idea why but there s no denying it so i fell comfortably into the story while i found the lolita trope slightly eyeroll induc share book reviews and ratings with michele and even join a book club on goodreads amazon book reviews the lit asylum where i post all the cool stuff check it out the short story society you can join our short story society search for incriminating old posts here twitter flitter tweets by readersrespite simple theme powered by blogger