Writing a #BookReview?

It's too hard they say! Why so? That's because even voracious readers insist that they can't write more than one-two lines about a book. Is that bad? Actually, it's not, because summarizing a 200 pages book in 1 sentence should be called an achievement!
But then the question arises how do we write a longer #BookReview? Let's first see how we can make it a paragraph long. Maybe approaching the problem in steps would make it easier to solve. So we move toward adding one more line to your review first.
Have you noticed that many readers love the touch and feel of a book and even when they read a soft copy or on Kindle, they miss that touch, smell & feel of paper? Well, that's the first thing you CAN talk about. Consider a few examples.
Pick up "The Case for India" by Will Durant (amzn.to/3ppwgfY) and compare it to "The Land of Seven Rivers" by Sanjeev Sanyal (amzn.to/3rvvQqg). Notice the difference in page quality, font, and printing, binding, etc. Would this affect the reader?
If I buy a book for myself, I'm both the customer & the consumer, but in case I'm purchasing it for gifting, the customer and the consumer of the book may be two different people. Both need to know the quality of the book, not only the contents of the book!
I will not be very keen on gifting a book that's poorly printed, has illegible fonts, loosely bound, shabby looking. Even as a reader all these impact my decision to purchase/read that book. You picked up that book, now in your #BookReview, can you help future readers?
The art on the cover page, paper quality, presence or absence of a table of contents, bibliography, all these features can be added to your review. Now does that make your #BookReview a few more words longer? Give it a try. We'll try to improve it further, all the best!

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26 Dec
Are you #WritingABook?

You think you need to improve your style of writing? There are a lot of books which can help you with that. Ever tried reading and learning from them? Let's take a look at what help is available in this thread.
There's "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker (amzn.to/3hkT4eb) which tells you why we all need a sense of style. It uses research in linguistics and cognitive science to help the author in enabling the spread of ideas and gaining the reader's trust.
Another one is "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott (amzn.to/3aEMKgh) which has been offering authors some practical advice on the craft of writing in a humourous style for about three decades.
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25 Dec
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I must have stood there to hear them once only, but that was enough to dissuade me from repeating the experiment. About the same time, I heard of a well known Hindu having been converted to Christianity.
It was the talk of the town that, when he was baptized, he had to eat beef and drink liquor, that he also had to change his clothes, and that thenceforth he began to go about in European costume including a hat.
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24 Dec
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Finally, Bagpat, a district in Uttar Pradesh was identified as a suitable location for the development of a new township. It had Meerut on one side, Gaziabad on the other, you can see it as the black dot on this map I got from Wikipedia. Image
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The author is already well known for her blogs on travel and the #Indian culture which seems to have been lost from popular literature and travelogues in recent times. The book is available for pre-order on the @GarudaPrakashan website - garudabooks.com/lotus-in-the-s…
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