Metareview! A contest of romance reviews

HEY YOU! WRITERS! READERS! REVIEWERS! SUBMIT A REVIEW!!!!!!!

(Reviewers are writers after all)

2/9 UPDATE!!!!

ALL GENRES WELCOME

1,000 word limit.

And though this part may be obvious, I'll write it anyway: you can't submit based on the fact that the reviewer liked your book or a book you loved. The review itself has to have moved you -- not the book it's about.

And the potential categories:

Funniest Snark

Most Moving

Worst (as in writing? or giving away plot? most pointless? most wandering from the subject? Heck maybe the whole contest could be based around this particular area. . .but NO.)

Most Convincing (either to read or not read a book)

Most Kowtowing/Gushing

Most Thought-Provoking

Most Unusual Format (for example: a Q and A between the reviewer and her conscience)

Please submit -- and use your own reviews and categories. I like the way AAR does contests. Organic is good. It has to be a review but it can come from a blog or formal review site.

Shortest has already been taken by Dorothy Parker, Although this site's movie reviews are great -- Scroll down a bit and they're on the right.

Prize to be determined: But not a book. God knows the reviewer probably doesn't need a book. Although a nice volume of reviews from The New Yorker would be good. . maybe we need a good pretentious name too.

Update: The single GRAND prize will be a beautiful blank journal and pen.

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click here to email : contact the blog owner with longer entries or suggestions

The Organic Contest Evolving? : Cece, I'm still not sure about that bad review thing. I thought it was an interesting idea -- but now I'm wondering if it's too snarky for a contest that supposed to be celebrating reviews? What do you all think? email me.

TBO: You can post any review you want . . whether or not you wrote it. And if it's a long review, click on the TBO and email it to me. I'll put them in somehow!

Corrinne: Kate, love the contest idea! I'll keep checking back to see the entries you get.

cece: Color me dumb, but I'm afraid I don't get it. Can I post a review someone else wrote on a review site that was a poorly written review?

TBO: TO ENTER, Click "POST COMMENTS" at the bottom of a board owner entry

answering questions: no, the entries don' t have to have been previously published. yes, they have to be about books that exist.

The Blog Owner: have any advice or questions about the contest? Leave them here. Entries should be posted under "comments" section.

Sunday, February 6th 2005

4:39 PM

THESE are not winners. . . [just entertaining space fillers]

Thanks to Jen Erik.

A few reviews to entertain you

some reviewers who are presumably too dead to win:
'The only consolation which we have in reflecting upon it is that it will never be generally read' - James Lorimer reviewing Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, 1847
'This is a book of the season only'- New York Herald Tribune on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
'Sentimental rubbish ...Show me one page that containd an idea' - Odessa Courier on Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1877

(Quotes from The Return of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pile.)