Any book blogs or review sites people would recommend?

curiosity

Hi all. Having read very little in the last decade, I decided to try ebooks, and bought a Kindle Paperwhite a year ago. Lately though, I find myself looking about on Amazon (the UK one) for books, and rambling about for ages, dithering over what to try. I don't want to end up choosing the safe option of known authors, or ones I read in my teens/twenties (41 year-old guy, btw). Reviews/recommendations can be hugely subjective things, especially on Amazon!

Of course, there must be many review sections in newspapers etc, but I would love to find some blogs written by people who love to read, a guide through the virtual bookstore that is ebooks.


As a point of reference, the last five books I've read:

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (really liked it, chose it for the quirkiness of the title)

To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee (I enjoyed it too, an accessible classic)

The Bachman Books, Stephen King (so-so, chosen mostly because I read lots of King in my teens)

I, The Jury, Mickey Spillane (pulp, but fun. Just dipping a toe into the 'noir PI' genre)

Guliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift (again, trying a classic. I found it a bit of a trudge at times, sadly)

CaoimH_in

This guy is really good tbh

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZdns7IPtpqM85Hd7jDIg2A

Aenaes

I've seen the website Goodreads recommended on here alot. There's also reading logs on here that could give you suggestions: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1065

There's a thread with people detailing which books they are currently reading: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055603984
You can see which books are currently "trending" as popular new books usually tend to appear in there quite alot.

Queen-Mise

I really like goodreads - you can start clicking the books you have read. And it will start giving you suggestions to reads on stuff you have read.

The lists and groups are really helpful. And a lot of the authors blog on it also. The reviews can be good, with a lot of amateur and professional reviews mixed in together.

You can register on it with your gmail, twitter or fb a/c etc. So it will remember you anytime you login.

curiosity

Guys n' gals, thank you all for the suggestions. Goodreads seems ideal, and a youtube channel to try as well.:)

wreade1872

Its not book related so much as shortstory related but i listen and follow along to the http://hppodcraft.com podcast, available on itunes aswell.

They go through all of lovecrafts stories and then moved onto other short weird fiction (poe, machen etc.). I'm way behind where they currently are, i'm reading the Wendigo. I'm also currently reading a graphic novel the podcast guys made called Deadbeats which is pretty decent.

It's a nice high quality podcast and very listenable and nice to read along with.

fisgon

Good one here...

http://watchingandreadingandwriting.blogspot.ie/

Book review section here...

http://watchingandreadingandwriting.blogspot.ie/p/books.html

(I may have a personal interest in promoting this blog...:))