The Reader’s Corner

Page Turners is a book blog by Becky in Sydney, Australia. (It seemed appropriate with the heat we’ve been having lately to feature a blog from “down under”).

I was brought to this site by a link for Book Beginnings on Friday, a meme I might actually join and start doing here. I have liked the idea of Teaser Tuesdays for a while now, but I have trouble deciding which sentences to post. With Book Beginning Fridays, that is taken away because you post the first sentence.

Anyways, on to the feature - Becky uses a star rating system in her reviews (explained in the right-hand column of her site), which is something I’ve been trying to integrate here but just have a hard time with. I think it’s helpful to have a star rating so you can tell quickly the overall impression of the book. I just have trouble pinning down exactly how many “stars” to give a book, it feels too much like grading an author’s work which I am in no position to do and I often want to go back and change the number of stars I gave a book several times. So I love that she has managed to implement this star-rating system.

She also has just really fun, interesting posts, participates in many reading challenges, and has a great blogroll. She reviews books from all over, but because of where she lives and a personal pledge to try and support her home country, she reads a lot of Australian fiction so it gives us up here a good look at some books we might otherwise not see highlighted as often.

Thanks, Becky, for a great book blog!