The illustrations weren’t beautiful but I think that’s what makes it more authentic. My kids weren’t bothered by the pictures because they are immature and giggled so I guess that’s good. I guess it’s like seeing a little girl at the beach without a bikini top on. I forget to mention he is naked at this point and the illustrator illustrated his little boy penis. He almost ends up in the oven and pops out in time. It was a weird book to read because Miguel falls into a cake mix in someone’s kitchen. “…Y se hunde entre las sombras, y su ropa se pierde y la luna le mie mientras sus padres duermen y aterriza en la masa que había en la cocina?”įirst off I want to say this book was published in 1987, two years after I was born, so it is very old and dated. I'm saying all this because it would just be the cat's pajamas if anyone knows a website I should check out, article I should read, or even a specific review that you think of as a 'must read.'Īnd I raise the question: is it even a book review if the book is never mentioned, nor any issue about the book's subject matter raised? Because they are, and I love you the best. The project itself will be specifically about reviews on goodreads, but I'm going to do some comparisons to see why our reviews are better than theirs. if I want my project to say anything, I need to know the lay of the land, don't I?īut, more than just literary social cataloguing websites, I'm also looking at other parts of the internet: online-only reviewers, book reviews, and on and on. *dodges a lamp* But I'm not reviewing with them, goodreads! I'm just there for the. How many have I been seeing? Uh, like four. Including the brilliant one-sentence reviews. I'm analyzing the rhetorical differences between online book reviews and those published in print.įrom meta-reviews to highly negative reviews, to reviews that are discussing the process of reading the book instead of the actual book itself, I'm searching for every kind of trend that's developing. *dodges plate* Wait, wait, let me explain! The thing is, I'm doing a big project on book reviews. It wasn't because I really wanted to see anyone else. I've been seeing other literary social cataloguing websites.

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak