New Friend Friday



Visit other blogs in the list and comment on their posts. Try to spend some time on the blogs reading other posts and possible become a new follower. The purpose of the hop is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.
When you are writing your reviews, do you write them as you are reading or wait until you are completely done with the book?

I usually write the review when I'm finished with the book. When requesting ARC's, I actually prefer a physical copy over an e-book because I can take notes as I'm reading. When I write the reviews, it's much easier to remember what angle I want to write about. More often than not, I dislike the summaries the publishers have written on the back. I have ran across a few that were so generic that they didn't even remotely do the book justice so I try to write the summaries as well as the reviews which proves to be a challenge. I always read the books first just for this fact alone.

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Question: Share your favorite quote?

Most of the shadows in this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine
                                                          - Ralph Waldo Emerson