Commendations

to people who have been posting reviews! Since it has been pointed out to me that some of us have posted several times and 'got nothing'.

In completely random order:
triadofs
Hotstuff
Anistasya
Essylt


Good on ya guys :)

Alright, you lot,

where are all the reviews, hmmm? (Thanks for that last one, Essyllt :) )

Unfortunately, the only things I'm in any position to review currently have names like 'On the Formation of Maars', and I'm sick of them.

Here's an idea for something a bit different, that we can do at the same time as reviews (assuming that people are still going to do reviews).

A few of us have been writing stories together - nothing epic, (and nothing that's finished yet *pointed looks at Essyllt and Anistasya*) but they're fun to do. Nothing is preplanned - someone starts off, and people keep writing (reasonably but not spectacularly long posts). Take the story in any direction you like, as long as you don't introduce too many twists in one section. We won't have a planned order, but if you find yourself writing every second post, remember to wait and give others a chance to reply.


If you're interested, please comment to say so - we'd want at least four of us to justify doing this on the blog.

Boring administrative-y matters

You've probably all thought of this already, but just to be obvious:

What to review: anything that you'd like everyone else to know about. There's no point in reviewing something like the Lord of the Rings unless you thought it was horrid and want to warn everyone off (which would be pointless in this case since everyone's read it). Equally, there's no point in reviewing something completely obscure unless you think we should hunt it out and read it. If we're interested in discussing books, rather than reviewing them, we could put 'discussion' in the title and the tags (and remember to do spoiler alerts).

That brings me to tags: It'd be good if everyone could tag their reviews as they write them - someone else will do them if you don't, but not as well. Have a look at the tags that are already there, or make some up. It'll become useful if we end up with fifty reviews and don't want to look over all of them to find something to read.

You all have admin privileges, so go ahead and use them - in particular, you can get the blog to email you about comments (and possibly about posts, although I haven't figured that setting out yet), and add your own web comics ;) and blogs to the list of our sites. (Update: if you want the blog to email you when a new post is put up, either do it yourself under Settings-> Email and add your address, or let me know and I'll do it).

If someone's already reviewed something you wanted to write about, don't be put off - you can add a comment to their review. If you have a lot to write, and the original author doesn't mind, you could always add it to the end of their review - do mention who you are, though, and remember we won't know the review has been updated. The best thing to do might be to write another review, and add the book title to the tags of both reviews, so that we know there's another one.

When you review a book of which you are fortunate enough to possess a copy, and feel generous enough to let someone else read it, you could mention that in your post, and also whether it's in Christchurch or Wellington (or wherever else you happen to be).

Any other suggestions?