HEY YOU! WRITERS! READERS! REVIEWERS! SUBMIT A REVIEW!!!!!!!
(Reviewers are writers after all) 2/9 UPDATE!!!! 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:
ALL GENRES WELCOME
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.
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.)
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