Book Blogger Hop

         In the spirit of the Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new blogs that we may be missing out on!  This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books!  It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed!

This week's prompt:

When you write reviews, do you write them as you are reading or wait until you have read the entire book?

       Honestly, the answer is that it depends.  Often I wait until after I've read the book to review it.  However, sometimes I get a good feeling about what a book early on.  Plus, usually I can at least I write down a basic synopsis of the opening plot points from the beginning of the book from just reading the beginning of the book.


       For example, I have a review which I'm posting next week (Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak) where I wrote most of the review by the time I was halfway done with the book, in large part because I felt it important to write how I came across this book, since it's not in a genre I usually read.  I was able to get that part written down without actually finishing the book.


      Other times, it's interesting to see how, if I start my review early in the reading process, it goes from very positive to lukewarm if the ending of the book is far less wonderful than the rest of the story.


Also, as a quick plug...Natalie at Coffee and a Book Chick and I are co-hosting a read along for Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian. Discussions are planned for on Sunday, so whether your reading the book the first time through or you've read it before, please join us at On The Ledge Read-A-Longs.