Sentences with phrase «on book reviews there»

Also, with more blogs on the Internet focusing on book reviews there may be opportunities for writing reviews of your own to build a great reputation and add another plank to your author platform.

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This was despite there being hundreds of peer - reviewed articles and books on the denial machine.

There is no reason why Jacobs should not lampoon a book after a brief glance rather than dignifying it with a review, but it is a bit much to accompany the caricature with advice to the author on the virtues of close reading.

There is a 12 - part review of the book on Richard Beck's blog that breaks it down and discusses it in a very understandable manner for nonscholars like myself.

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

A simple google for the Encyclopedia of Wars returns on the first page, one hit from Amazon.com where there is ONE two - star review of volume 3 of this book.

While you may have set up a handy Apple streaming service in your home already, there are hundreds of helpful apps on the market too that make it easier than ever to catch your new shows, stay on top of the latest reviews, book tickets to the cinema, and more.

You may have limited family time to spend with your child (by the time you get home from work and you eat dinner together as a family and go through your evening routines — make sure homework is done, school bags are packed for the next day, teeth are brushed, baths are done, and so on — there's very little time to sit and review schoolwork with your child); but you can try to look over what your child is doing with his tutor, and try to use free time on the weekends to incorporate fun into learning by playing math games, reading fun books and helping your child pick out books he likes to encourage reading and more.

There's also a wealth of books about breastfeeding on the market, some of which have been reviewed by Mumsnetters.

If you look at the numbers in the emergency budget, which are due to be fleshed out in the Comprehensive Spending Review tomorrow, there is just no way that the Government's spending cuts will balance the books on their own.

So I was skeptical about trying the pupps cleanse because there are mixed reviews on varies sites about the book and the cleanse.

She's Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Filipino teen romantic comedy - drama film based on the best Pop Fiction book of the same name originally published on There are no critic reviews yet for She's Dating The Gangster.

And if we are going to say you have to ignore the books and review the movies on their own merit, then it's is a valid argument to say that the violence or lack there of and the «dumbing down» of the social commentary doesn't work.

Like the «limousine liberals» who gathered there on Park Avenue to sip wine, write cheques and discuss — in the measured tones of the New York Review of Books — the «race problem», Elgar is unprepared for the messy radicalism that greets and, even more significantly, that excludes him.

The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage by Ellis Cose Ecco Books Hardcover, $ 24.99 320 pages ISBN: 978 -0-06-199855-3 Book Review by Kam Williams «The End of Anger is an exploration of why it is that many blacks are feeling optimistic these days... [This] is a book about success — about a particularly privileged, even indulged, group of African - Americans whose experiences in many respects are far from the norm... In January 2009, on the eve of President Barack Obama's inauguration, a CNN poll found that 69 % of blacks agreed that Martin Luther King's vision had been fulfilled... The election of an African - American president was a Rubicon to be crossed... No longer are there any excuses for denying blacks anything or for blacks denying themselves the opportunity to aim as high as they wish.&raBook Review by Kam Williams «The End of Anger is an exploration of why it is that many blacks are feeling optimistic these days... [This] is a book about success — about a particularly privileged, even indulged, group of African - Americans whose experiences in many respects are far from the norm... In January 2009, on the eve of President Barack Obama's inauguration, a CNN poll found that 69 % of blacks agreed that Martin Luther King's vision had been fulfilled... The election of an African - American president was a Rubicon to be crossed... No longer are there any excuses for denying blacks anything or for blacks denying themselves the opportunity to aim as high as they wish.&rabook about success — about a particularly privileged, even indulged, group of African - Americans whose experiences in many respects are far from the norm... In January 2009, on the eve of President Barack Obama's inauguration, a CNN poll found that 69 % of blacks agreed that Martin Luther King's vision had been fulfilled... The election of an African - American president was a Rubicon to be crossed... No longer are there any excuses for denying blacks anything or for blacks denying themselves the opportunity to aim as high as they wish.»

A review published in January 2003 by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation of more than 100 books, articles, and briefs on turnaround efforts concluded, «There is, at present, no strong evidence that any particular intervention type works most of the time or in most places.»

In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, Christopher Jencks reviews Legacies of the War on Poverty and explains why there is disagreement over the impact of the War on Poverty (and also why it is so difficult to measure changes in the poverty rate over time).

There is no teacher book according to a review on the publisher's website.

I never discuss my books on there and use it only as a reader — posting reviews that I used to post to Amazon and staying out of any groups or discussions.

The literary agents on your typical free book agents list didn't ask to be put there, meaning they didn't post their profile or review it — so the information that you're relying on to get representation is outdated and / or incorrect.

I get through at least one a week, often more, and I review these books for pleasure, usually on Amazon, sometimes on Goodreads (a site that's hailed as social media for readers, but to be honest I find it a frustratingly clunky site so don't go on there that much — and as it's now owned by Amazon, it may only be a matter of time before my Amazon reviews are accessible from Goodreads anyway).

Readers may forgive a few errors, but when there are mistakes on every page, readers may leave bad reviews and never pick up your books again.

Her first novel, A Step From Heaven, was written during her time there and went on to be published, garnering awards such as the: Michael L. Printz Award, International Reading Association Award, National Book Award Finalist, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, and New York Times Book Review Notable.

All reviews, of course, help divert eyeballs toward almost any review, because it's showing that there's activity on our book.

My first paid writing gig was reviewing back when I was in junior high — the Kansas City Star had a teen section and I did reviews on books, TV shows and films for several years there, as well as the occasional humor column.

There is a notice on the page that they have the book under review and have contacted me about it.

There was a query this week from a member of my Linkedin Group Marketing on Amazon asking how to get his book reviewed before he starts using his KDP Select free promotion days.

When the Scholastic Book Orders came with free Rio2 bookmarks just as my review copy of Papercutz's Rio arrived in my mailbox, I knew that there was a big movie release on the horizon.

If they choose to look only at «large publisher» books, it's because they've bought (or are required by their publishers to follow) the «books by other publishers are no good» line, even when a commentator whose review is right there on view on a book's cover obviously knows more about literature than half the editorial staff (even good ones) at most large publishing houses.

(Seriously, I feel there should be a special place in hell for Amazon authors who leave negative reviews on their competitor's books.)

Yes, there are one - and two - sentence blurbs that either trash a book or proclaim it to be the best ever written... On the whole, however, I found that most Amazon customer reviews aim to provide readers with a reason to either read a book or pass it over.

The one exception to that is a review group on GR where people are assigned books in a way that there are no reciprocal reviews.

Research book bloggers that you think will be a good fit for your book (there are many internet databases out there which make this much easier) then send them a message politely inquiring if they'd be interested in reviewing your book on their website.

There are so many fake reviews on sites like Goodreads (both 5 and 1 star) that it's hardly a system to be trusted, and even when only professional reviewers reviewed books, it was still the opinion of someone I don't know.

I'll admit it's a frustrating answer because there are many authors who really hard on their books, yet they don't a high number of reviews in return.

There are 2 limitations however with the implementation: The edition will always be 1, and I can not track the number of reviews for that book (this is something NovelRank collects for all books, but until I'm checking for new reviews regularly, it is not part of the data that is shown on the site).

Goodreads reviews will trickle in overtime, and generally there will be more of them because it is so easy to just click / rate a book, but the extra effort a reader needs to put in on Amazon makes those reviews more meaningful.

6) Price Well — launch the first book of your new series at 99cents; get some early reviews on there by handing out review copies before launch; buy some ads for the first couple weeks at that 99cent price point.

If they do review your book, though, they'll normally publish a review on Amazon and on Goodreads as well as on their own blog — improving your presence there.

In other words, there's a good reason for stating that behavior (essentially reviewing the wrong book) would be unethical on platforms like Goodreads or Amazon.

There is a Contact link on your Review Page whereby authors can send you a message to see if you are interested in exchanging reviews with them, and you can do the same for any book you find on our site, regardless of whether we have reviewed your book.

There you have it — the down and dirty on book reviews for the self - published author.

There are trolls out there that get off on just writing bad reviews no matter how the booThere are trolls out there that get off on just writing bad reviews no matter how the boothere that get off on just writing bad reviews no matter how the book is.

I am a professional reviewer (free honest reviews), and there are 1600 books on the list with company I work, all in the same genre.

hi, i am new on KDP i have publish a book for last one month but there is no positive responce, i think have some issue like i live in Pakistan so i can not use KDP easily and amazon not providing services for Pakistan so i can not get review and other services in that case can you help me

There are other books that are obvious click farming; if a book with no reviews (or only negative reviews) stays on top of Amazon for months, or suddenly shoots to the top, and everybody thinks «how is this book possibly doing this» — something fishy is probably going on.

I got so tied up in adulting, working, reading new releases for review and other books on my TBR stack, that the books sat there on the shelf.

There's nothing quite like slaving over a manuscript for a few months, getting it polished and ready, hitting that «publish» button, falling asleep and enjoying the thrill of a book completed, and then waking up to reviews of your brand new baby on Amazon and an inbox flooded with «What's next?»

There's no need to contact a blogger who only reviews romance or mystery if you have written a book on Jazz music.

I've met some really nice indie authors and I am open to review indie books, but indeed there are also some who just approach bloggers the wrong way and I really don't like when authors approach me on social media if I don't know them, it leaves me with a bad taste and I likely won't review their book.