When I was younger and had no family, I was the guy who thought reading a million of books is a way to go. That may be it, but you should not mistake just mindlessly reading for analysing and working through a book.
Previously, I thought that the reviwing is the only proper way of working through a book. You can guess how many books I reviewed. Nil.
I’ve been thinking on book reviews and how to write on them. Over and over again. I couldn’t come up with a proper mechanism. Until recently.
Previously, I thought of carefully accumulating all the quotes, do a proper review following some structure. Now, I think that for me, the only real way of doing that is not following any structure, and not accumulating any quotes inside my review. But just writing about the book, everything that’s in my head. If there would be anything else to add, I’d add more.
The book quotes are now live under the tag books, or just quotes (contains not just book quotes, any quotes). I’m not issuing a separate ‘book quotes’ tag, as I believe just ‘books’ tag is sufficient.
Perhaps, over time, I’d find and establish some template for reviewing a book, but I’d try to make it just a story on the read book, with my thoughs on it. That’s plenty of a review. Each quote, if I want to comment on it, gets its separate file. Yep, it’s too many quotes, yet that’s the system that works for me. So, pardon me writing too much into my own blog!