{"id":16041,"date":"2014-09-21T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=16041"},"modified":"2014-09-21T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:23:17","slug":"admin-sort-of-book-reviews-on-goodreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/admin-sort-of-book-reviews-on-goodreads\/","title":{"rendered":"ADMIN (Sort of): Book Reviews on Goodreads"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago, I posted a pretty good number of book reviews at a collaborative blog called The Book Book<\/em><\/a>, curated by the blogger formerly (and probably forever) known as Moonrat. It was a pretty successful site in many ways — over 600 posts, spread over the five or six years of peak activity — and the quality<\/em> of the reviews was about what you’d expect, given Moonrat’s professional standards. (She was\/is an editor at a NYC publishing firm.)<\/p>\n

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be putting those reviews on Goodreads as well. I won’t be removing them from The Book Book<\/em> — in fact, I’ll include a link to the original review in the version posted on Goodreads. But otherwise, the reviews (with possibly some minor changes) will be identical. My hope is that they’ll prove useful to a wider audience at Goodreads.<\/p>\n

(And btw, yes: I’ve checked with Moonrat and with Goodreads to be sure this will be all right.)<\/p>\n

Whenever I posted a Book Book<\/em> review, I announced it with a post here. In some cases, the RAMH<\/em> posts themselves might have included some useful extras (including comments from blog followers). In those cases, I’ll probably link from Goodreads to RAMH<\/em>. But I’m not meaning at all for this as a “boost my stats” venture. (I don’t even look at stats anymore, although I guess they’re still out there somewhere.)<\/p>\n

If you’ve been following RAMH<\/em>, or\u00a0The Book Book<\/em> for that matter, you won’t find anything new in my Goodreads reviews unless and until I start posting honest-to-gods new<\/em> reviews there more often. (Heh.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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