| Book Review Websites and Print Publications |
We post all our reviews on the Internet with a number of thematically
appropriate areas of the Internet such as alt.books.reviews and
Pub-Forum. Our reviews are also available through Internet
bookstores such as Amazon.com.
The Gale Research Company of Farmington Hills, Mich., has contracted
with the Midwest Book Review to provide electronic copies of all of
book reviews we publish in our library newsletters, on the Internet,
and develop for our weekly television programs. In addition to making
our reviews available to library systems nationwide in their print,
magnetic tape, and diskette series, the Gale Research Company uses
these reviews in their Book Review Index interactive CD-ROM series,
designed for use by community, university, and corporate libraries
nationwide in the U.S. and Canada.
We also produce a short wave radio book review commentary, the
KNLS Bookwatch, that goes out every month to Europe, North
America, South America, and the Pacific Rim. It's a lot of fun -- I read
my book review commentary into the phone here in Oregon, Wis. My
director records it on his studio equipment in Nashville, Tenn., and
then pipes it to the KNLS broadcast studio in Anchor City, Alaska. From
there it is beamed up to a satellite for worldwide distribution.
We also serve as an Acquisitions Consultant for Dane County Library
Services, which is responsible for 52 southern Wisconsin community
library systems.
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers
committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press
publishing. We accept no financial donations from authors or
publishers for our services.
appropriate areas of the Internet such as alt.books.reviews and
Pub-Forum. Our reviews are also available through Internet
bookstores such as Amazon.com.
The Gale Research Company of Farmington Hills, Mich., has contracted
with the Midwest Book Review to provide electronic copies of all of
book reviews we publish in our library newsletters, on the Internet,
and develop for our weekly television programs. In addition to making
our reviews available to library systems nationwide in their print,
magnetic tape, and diskette series, the Gale Research Company uses
these reviews in their Book Review Index interactive CD-ROM series,
designed for use by community, university, and corporate libraries
nationwide in the U.S. and Canada.
We also produce a short wave radio book review commentary, the
KNLS Bookwatch, that goes out every month to Europe, North
America, South America, and the Pacific Rim. It's a lot of fun -- I read
my book review commentary into the phone here in Oregon, Wis. My
director records it on his studio equipment in Nashville, Tenn., and
then pipes it to the KNLS broadcast studio in Anchor City, Alaska. From
there it is beamed up to a satellite for worldwide distribution.
We also serve as an Acquisitions Consultant for Dane County Library
Services, which is responsible for 52 southern Wisconsin community
library systems.
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers
committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press
publishing. We accept no financial donations from authors or
publishers for our services.
With a national circulation of over 125,000, The New York
Review of Books has established itself, in Esquire's words, as
"the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English
language." The New York Review began during the New York
publishing strike of 1963, when the present editors, Robert
Silvers and Barbara Epstein, and their friends, decided to create
a new kind of magazine—one in which the most interesting and
qualified minds of our time would discuss current books and
issues in depth.
The New York Review's early issues included articles by such
writers as W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt,
Edmund Wilson, Susan Sontag, Robert Penn Warren, Lilian
Hellman, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Saul Bellow, Robert Lowell,
Truman Capote, William Styron, and Mary McCarthy. The public
responded by buying up practically all the copies printed and
writing thousands of letters to demand that The New York
Review continue publication.
Within a short time, The New York Times was writing that The
New York Review "has succeeded brilliantly," The New Statesman
hailed its founding as "of more cultural import than the opening
of Lincoln Center," and the great English art historian Kenneth
Clark observed, "I have never known such a high standard of
reviewing." The unprecedented and enthusiastic response was
indicative of how badly America needed a literary and critical
journal based on the assumption that the discussion of important
books was itself an indispensable literary activity.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, The New York Review of Books
has posed the questions in the debate on American life, culture,
and politics. It is the journal where Mary McCarthy reported on
the Vietnam War from Saigon and Hanoi; Edmund Wilson
challenged Vladimir Nabokov's translations; Hannah Arendt
published her reflections on violence; Ralph Nader published his
"manifesto" for consumer justice; I.F. Stone investigated the lies
of Watergate; Susan Sontag challenged the claims of modern
photography; Jean-Paul Sartre, at 70, described his writing and
politics, and how he felt about his blindness; Elizabeth Hardwick
addressed the issues of women and writing; John K. Galbraith
analyzed the ailing economy under Carter and the Reagan
recovery;
Gore Vidal hilariously lampooned bestsellers, Howard Hughes,
Teddy Roosevelt, and the Reagans; Mario Cuomo published his
controversial address on the morality of abortion; V.S. Naipaul
reported on the rise of neo-conservatism from the 1984
Republican convention; Felix Rohatyn made the case for a
national industrial policy in an influential series of articles; Peter
G. Peterson showed why the present Social Security program
can't last, Joan Didion described, in a firsthand account, the
situation in El Salvador; McGeorge Bundy, George Kennan, and
Lewis Thomas outlined the nuclear threat; Nadine Gordimer and
Bishop Desmond Tutu wrote from South Africa on the conflict over
apartheid; Václav Havel published his reflections from the Czech
underground; and Timothy Garton Ash carries on his continuing
account of the new Eastern Europe. It is the journal where the
most important issues are discussed by writers who are
themselves a major force in world literature and thought.
Every two weeks, these and other writers publish essays and
reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance,
and film—from Woody Allen's Manhattan to Kurosawa's version of
King Lear. What has made The New York Review successful,
according to The New York Times, is its "stubborn refusal to treat
books, or the theatre and movies, for that matter, as categories
of entertainment to be indulged in when the working day is
done."
Review of Books has established itself, in Esquire's words, as
"the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English
language." The New York Review began during the New York
publishing strike of 1963, when the present editors, Robert
Silvers and Barbara Epstein, and their friends, decided to create
a new kind of magazine—one in which the most interesting and
qualified minds of our time would discuss current books and
issues in depth.
The New York Review's early issues included articles by such
writers as W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt,
Edmund Wilson, Susan Sontag, Robert Penn Warren, Lilian
Hellman, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Saul Bellow, Robert Lowell,
Truman Capote, William Styron, and Mary McCarthy. The public
responded by buying up practically all the copies printed and
writing thousands of letters to demand that The New York
Review continue publication.
Within a short time, The New York Times was writing that The
New York Review "has succeeded brilliantly," The New Statesman
hailed its founding as "of more cultural import than the opening
of Lincoln Center," and the great English art historian Kenneth
Clark observed, "I have never known such a high standard of
reviewing." The unprecedented and enthusiastic response was
indicative of how badly America needed a literary and critical
journal based on the assumption that the discussion of important
books was itself an indispensable literary activity.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, The New York Review of Books
has posed the questions in the debate on American life, culture,
and politics. It is the journal where Mary McCarthy reported on
the Vietnam War from Saigon and Hanoi; Edmund Wilson
challenged Vladimir Nabokov's translations; Hannah Arendt
published her reflections on violence; Ralph Nader published his
"manifesto" for consumer justice; I.F. Stone investigated the lies
of Watergate; Susan Sontag challenged the claims of modern
photography; Jean-Paul Sartre, at 70, described his writing and
politics, and how he felt about his blindness; Elizabeth Hardwick
addressed the issues of women and writing; John K. Galbraith
analyzed the ailing economy under Carter and the Reagan
recovery;
Gore Vidal hilariously lampooned bestsellers, Howard Hughes,
Teddy Roosevelt, and the Reagans; Mario Cuomo published his
controversial address on the morality of abortion; V.S. Naipaul
reported on the rise of neo-conservatism from the 1984
Republican convention; Felix Rohatyn made the case for a
national industrial policy in an influential series of articles; Peter
G. Peterson showed why the present Social Security program
can't last, Joan Didion described, in a firsthand account, the
situation in El Salvador; McGeorge Bundy, George Kennan, and
Lewis Thomas outlined the nuclear threat; Nadine Gordimer and
Bishop Desmond Tutu wrote from South Africa on the conflict over
apartheid; Václav Havel published his reflections from the Czech
underground; and Timothy Garton Ash carries on his continuing
account of the new Eastern Europe. It is the journal where the
most important issues are discussed by writers who are
themselves a major force in world literature and thought.
Every two weeks, these and other writers publish essays and
reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance,
and film—from Woody Allen's Manhattan to Kurosawa's version of
King Lear. What has made The New York Review successful,
according to The New York Times, is its "stubborn refusal to treat
books, or the theatre and movies, for that matter, as categories
of entertainment to be indulged in when the working day is
done."
The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library
association in the world, with more than 65,000 members. Its mission
is to promote the highest quality library and information services and
public access to information.
ALA offers professional services and publications to members and
nonmembers, including online news stories from American Libraries
and analysis of crucial issues from the Washington Office. Be a part of
it—library worker or advocate—join today!
association in the world, with more than 65,000 members. Its mission
is to promote the highest quality library and information services and
public access to information.
ALA offers professional services and publications to members and
nonmembers, including online news stories from American Libraries
and analysis of crucial issues from the Washington Office. Be a part of
it—library worker or advocate—join today!
Permission to reprint Bookviews is granted in whole or in part to any
publication. Please bear in mind, however, that Bookviews is a
copyrighted feature written by Alan Caruba and, as such, use of
Bookviews is based on (1) a request to publish, (2) the provision of
a copy of the publication in which it appears, and (3) the proper
attribution of its author.
Because Bookviews provides different segments each month
reflecting the best novels, books on business and finance, cookbooks,
religion, history, biographies, health, and other comparable topics, it
can be used in part or in whole depending on the needs of the
publication that elects to share it with their readers.
Or, of course, you can just read Bookviews for your own pleasure
and, if you see a book that you want, you can access it by going to
Amazon.Com directly from this site.
WHO: Alan Caruba is a veteran book reviewer whose work has
appeared in many publications over the years. Alan is a charter
member of the National Book Critics Circle. The author and contributor
to several books, he has written for numerous consumer and trade
publications over the years. He is also a member of the American
Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Society of Professional
Journalists, and the National Association of Science Writers.
He resides in South Orange, NJ, where he receives many books from
both leading publishing houses and small publishers. His judgments
are based on the merit of each book, audiobook, CD, video or related
item. If a book should fail to tell its story or provide its information in
a manner consistent with high standards, you will read about it in
Bookviews, but mostly he prefers to recommend the good books,
selected from a vast flood of the "others."
publication. Please bear in mind, however, that Bookviews is a
copyrighted feature written by Alan Caruba and, as such, use of
Bookviews is based on (1) a request to publish, (2) the provision of
a copy of the publication in which it appears, and (3) the proper
attribution of its author.
Because Bookviews provides different segments each month
reflecting the best novels, books on business and finance, cookbooks,
religion, history, biographies, health, and other comparable topics, it
can be used in part or in whole depending on the needs of the
publication that elects to share it with their readers.
Or, of course, you can just read Bookviews for your own pleasure
and, if you see a book that you want, you can access it by going to
Amazon.Com directly from this site.
WHO: Alan Caruba is a veteran book reviewer whose work has
appeared in many publications over the years. Alan is a charter
member of the National Book Critics Circle. The author and contributor
to several books, he has written for numerous consumer and trade
publications over the years. He is also a member of the American
Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Society of Professional
Journalists, and the National Association of Science Writers.
He resides in South Orange, NJ, where he receives many books from
both leading publishing houses and small publishers. His judgments
are based on the merit of each book, audiobook, CD, video or related
item. If a book should fail to tell its story or provide its information in
a manner consistent with high standards, you will read about it in
Bookviews, but mostly he prefers to recommend the good books,
selected from a vast flood of the "others."
Bookviews, written by Alan Caruba, has been
around since the 1960’s, first as a weekly
newspaper column, later as a monthly
newsletter, and now in cyberspace. As such, it is
available to publications for their use at no cost.
around since the 1960’s, first as a weekly
newspaper column, later as a monthly
newsletter, and now in cyberspace. As such, it is
available to publications for their use at no cost.
Roundtable Reviews (RTR) offers honest book reviews for
many genres. All aspects of Romance, Historical,
Inspirational, General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Horror, Sci-Fi,
Fantasy, the Classics, Self-Help, Cookbooks, Young Adult
Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense. Scroll down and
browse the book review categories. RTR's book reviews
are based on one question--would we be willing to buy this
book if we were paying the suggested retail price?
many genres. All aspects of Romance, Historical,
Inspirational, General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Horror, Sci-Fi,
Fantasy, the Classics, Self-Help, Cookbooks, Young Adult
Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense. Scroll down and
browse the book review categories. RTR's book reviews
are based on one question--would we be willing to buy this
book if we were paying the suggested retail price?
| For Submission Guidelines go to www.roundtablereivews.com/submission.htm |
Norman Goldman, founder a www.bookpleasures.com, is a
terrific book reviewer as well as an accomplished writer. If
you wish to have your book reviewed, please send in your
request to Norm Goldman at: bookpleasures@gmail.com
Along with your request, we need to have a very brief
synopsis of the book, ISBN Number: Publisher: Genre: Author:
Reviews are generally posted on Bookpleasures.com within a
delay of 3-4 months from the receipt of the book-sometimes
sooner, depending upon the reviewer.
If you are interested in having a Priority, Fast Track Express
Service where the book is reviewed and posted on
Bookpleasures.com as well as other sites within 15 business
days from the receipt of the book CLICK HERE FOR MORE
INFORMATION.
terrific book reviewer as well as an accomplished writer. If
you wish to have your book reviewed, please send in your
request to Norm Goldman at: bookpleasures@gmail.com
Along with your request, we need to have a very brief
synopsis of the book, ISBN Number: Publisher: Genre: Author:
Reviews are generally posted on Bookpleasures.com within a
delay of 3-4 months from the receipt of the book-sometimes
sooner, depending upon the reviewer.
If you are interested in having a Priority, Fast Track Express
Service where the book is reviewed and posted on
Bookpleasures.com as well as other sites within 15 business
days from the receipt of the book CLICK HERE FOR MORE
INFORMATION.
Due to the electronic revolution and the proliferation of
independently published/small press books in the last decade, there
are literally thousands of new books published each year that do
not get reviewed by professional journals and receive very little
publicity from the mainstream media.
Major book reviewing publications, such as Publisher's Weekly and
the New York Review of Books, have limited space and primarily
review books that come from major publishing houses. In fact, most
of these journals will not even consider independently published
books. There are lesser-known academic publications that specialize
in reviewing independently published books, but these publications
have limited resources and cannot accommodate all the books they
receive. Moreover, they have very limited readerships.
In light of this, we realized there was a need for a book review
publication that would accommodate the growing number of
independently published/small press books on the market. We also
knew it was important to give these books as much exposure as
possible, which meant we needed to appeal to a wider audience
than just members of the book publishing community.
So we decided to add news stories, essays, and feature interviews
to our publication to broaden its appeal and create a larger
readership. In addition, we wanted to create a publication with an
edge, written from a progressive point of view that recommended
books and presented news and information often ignored by the
mainstream media. With this dual purpose in mind, we created the
Online Review of Books & Current Affairs.
independently published/small press books in the last decade, there
are literally thousands of new books published each year that do
not get reviewed by professional journals and receive very little
publicity from the mainstream media.
Major book reviewing publications, such as Publisher's Weekly and
the New York Review of Books, have limited space and primarily
review books that come from major publishing houses. In fact, most
of these journals will not even consider independently published
books. There are lesser-known academic publications that specialize
in reviewing independently published books, but these publications
have limited resources and cannot accommodate all the books they
receive. Moreover, they have very limited readerships.
In light of this, we realized there was a need for a book review
publication that would accommodate the growing number of
independently published/small press books on the market. We also
knew it was important to give these books as much exposure as
possible, which meant we needed to appeal to a wider audience
than just members of the book publishing community.
So we decided to add news stories, essays, and feature interviews
to our publication to broaden its appeal and create a larger
readership. In addition, we wanted to create a publication with an
edge, written from a progressive point of view that recommended
books and presented news and information often ignored by the
mainstream media. With this dual purpose in mind, we created the
Online Review of Books & Current Affairs.
The Vision For Tracy's Book Nook
I have an intense love for books! I love to read! I love to encourage
others to read! Having been an elementary school teacher, I have
developed a love for children's books as well as adult fiction. Having
a new son has awakened me to the whole genre of infant and
preschool books that I have not experienced before. I have been
delighted to find a wealth of excellent books for infants and
preschoolers and would love to share this experience with my guests.
Several years ago I opened a door into Christian Historical Fiction
and have not turned back since. I read books that had a life altering
impact on me. My purpose is to encourage other readers to develop
a love for reading and for Christian Fiction by introducing them to
many beloved authors and their works of fiction. By writing a short
review of each book, I hope to awaken a curiosity in my guests to go
out and read a book or read a book to a youngster.
I have an intense love for books! I love to read! I love to encourage
others to read! Having been an elementary school teacher, I have
developed a love for children's books as well as adult fiction. Having
a new son has awakened me to the whole genre of infant and
preschool books that I have not experienced before. I have been
delighted to find a wealth of excellent books for infants and
preschoolers and would love to share this experience with my guests.
Several years ago I opened a door into Christian Historical Fiction
and have not turned back since. I read books that had a life altering
impact on me. My purpose is to encourage other readers to develop
a love for reading and for Christian Fiction by introducing them to
many beloved authors and their works of fiction. By writing a short
review of each book, I hope to awaken a curiosity in my guests to go
out and read a book or read a book to a youngster.
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