I have a "Thing" about "Tuesday"

Now, for those of you anxiously awaiting more information about the many wonderful things to be found on Library Thing, this weeks question from The Grand Boston Bibliophile.

Most of us book bloggers like to write book reviews- if we don't love to write book reviews- but here's today's question. When it comes to LT (and your blog), do you review every book you read? Do you just review Early Reviewers or ARCs? Do you review only if you like a book, or only if you feel like you have to? How soon after reading do you post your review? Do you post them other places- other social networking sites, Amazon, etc.?

Yes, I do actually write reviews of all the books that I read. Yes...that is all the books I have read recently. One thing about this blog is that I realize that I do not read as many books as some people. Am I a slow reader? Do I just not spend as much time reading as some people? Or am I just easily distracted...oh, look, a shiny bauble!! Pretty...pretty, shiny thing...oooooh...

Oh, where was I...? Yes, book reviews. What do I review? Well, the majority of them these days are ARCs...advanced review copies for those of you not in the know... ;-) or Early Reviewers books from Library Thing. Not all, but most. As I have mentioned before, and will mention again even at risk of getting hit with something, I have been lucky enough to get a book every month that I have belonged to Library Thing's ER, and I give these books priority. As soon as I get them, I read and review them.
Next comes the ARC's, trying to get to them close to the publication date as I can. Of course, glancing at my ARC pile...not to be confused with the regular TBR pile, the one that is getting higher and higher and threatening to fall over and crush my imaginary kitty, Kitty...but looking at the ARC pile, I can see that it is going to be a very busy January. And February. And March. At least for me, slow, easily distracted reader. Oh, look, a pretty birdie...

I review a book whether I like it or not. Which, I have found, is a matter of some disagreement here in the blogsphere. So long as I was able to finish it, which was not the case in...hmmmm...two books. I guess that would be a very negative review but if I have not finished it, I will not write anything. They are in a third pile, the "maybe get back too" pile. Are you starting to get an idea what my house looks like?
I try to write the review as soon as I finish the book, within a day or two. Or else I forget my points. Or lose the books in one of those piles. But on the other hand, I need a day or two to let my opinion percolate in my brain. It's like the three bears...not too soon, not too late....just right!

I post them here, on the blog, which I assume you have noticed, and I post a shorter version on LT and usually on Amazon. I know, from a recent thread on Library Thing, that some people DO NOT like links on reviews, or links to reviews. But I try for a complete but shorter version on those two, an edited down version, sometimes with a link to the full review here, and save my full, pointless, rambling thoughts for you, my dear readers.

Both of you! :-)