Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly bookish meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and co-hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits and Dini @dinipandareads! This meme has a discussion format, where participants get to talk about certain topics, share opinions, and spread the blogging love by visiting other posts. You can learn more about this meme here!

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LTB Topic of the Week
Writing and Posting Book Reviews

Prompts: Writing book reviews is a huge part of running a book blog. Do book reviews make up a big part of your blog content? Do you prefer to write long or short reviews? How does reviewing advance copies (ARCs) and working directly with authors and publishers change your approach to writing the reviews? Do you post on platforms other than your blog (i.e. Goodreads, The Storygraph, social media) and do those reviews differ from what you share on your blog?

Writing book reviews is a huge part of running a book blog. Do book reviews make up a big part of your blog content?

I would say that book reviews make up a fair chunk of my content. I think the majority of my content leans more to bookish memes, but reviews are probably my second most common blog post. A large chunk of that is because I participate as a panelist for the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award run by The Write Reads and that involves reading/reviewing quite a few indie books! It’s one of my favorite consequences of starting this blog because I always find some new faves whenever I participate.

The other chunk of my reviews would be Netgalley reviews, especially since I’m trying to catch up on my backlog 😅 Every once in awhile, when I want to gush about a book I love, I’ll write up a rambly review (see my most recent review for Painted Devils, haha), but, for the most part, my reviews are either for a blog tour/BBNYA or for Netgalley.

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