Reviewing a book

After reading some of the other blogs that I follow, I now realise that I need to perfect the art of review.  I will admit that I am not very good at reviewing books.  Once the book is read, I am straight on to the next one and that book is forgotten.  It is not that it wasn't a good book, it's just that I move straight onto the next one, and if it is not part of a series than it's a whole different storyline and so forth.  Many people would suggest that I stop and smell the roses and enjoy each book for what it is but I have so many books that I need to get through and I borrow from the library (thank god) so I have a time limit to how long I can have that book.  And I spend so much time between Shelfari (which is a marvelous source of reading material), http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/ and my local library and I find all these books and place holds on them willy nilly because I am scared I will forget the title or something.  I think that it must be an absolute mess inside my head sometimes. 

Anyway, I am yet to discover a way to refine my reviews.  I am going to attempt to not start another book until I have reviewed the previous.  I have read all about reviewing by using your own personality and I certainly do not want to copy and paste reviews from other sites.  I do think that my reviewing style will be different.  I don't want to give away too much of the story but enough that if anyone reads the review (heaven forbid) that they will want to look a little further and give the book a chance.  So wish me luck fellow bloggers (that would be you ms koa) and I hope that over the time I will be able to produce a review that is worth reading.

Writing a book

... so I have been toying with the idea of writing a book. I have really no concept of how to get started, hence the 8 books next to my desk telling me how to write a book that I haven't picked up.  Dotted around my computers are various files with names saying "i must write', ideas for stories' etc.  Not much in them.  I haven't settled to what medium i want to write in yet and that is as easy as saying do I want to start typing away on the computer or would by hand be better as you have more scope to doodle in the margins.  How am I going to write when I can't even decide how to write first.  Then I have all these ideas for different books.  I have started approx 3 and I don't know that if starting them means writing a title and then a chapter heading and then 'once upon a time...'.  It doesn't seem like a lot does it?  It is always very confusing and then I skip through a book in about 1/2 day and read the author's thank you's which always say how hard it was and thank you to everyone feeding them and looking after their children, and I think what the hell goes on... then i get scared that no one will like my idea and so on and so forth.  i don't seem to have a problem keeping my mouth shut, I wish it would just show up on paper a bit easier.

its just a vicious circle

of doing not very much before i started work.  I am psyching myself up to tackle ebay over the weekend. Big boy has finished footy for the year and we only have to worry about getting to basketball so i get my sat mornings back to myself.  YAY.  I also have to organise my personal library so as not to incur fines at the local and very well equipped library.  As i work in a library myself I have no problems paying the miniscule fines at my local because they have free holds and I am over indulging myself, wallowing like a little pig in mud using that facility.  I took a week off and spent a lot of time just trying to read some books before the deadline.  and then I keep on finding other titles and authors to read and keep placing holds.  There could be worse ways to go.