Book Reviews/Writing a review/questions to answer

==Questions to answer==
 * 1) What is the: title, author, publisher, date, length, and ISBN?
 * 2) What is the genre? Fiction, non-fiction?
 * 3) Who is the audience? (i.e. age, reading level, interests, specialties…)
 * 4) Highlight any notable aspects, good or bad, of the book’s design and production. Consider aesthetics, typography, cover, design, images, table of contents, notes, references, index, . ..
 * 5) What is the Style (casual, formal, light, humors, serious, scholarly . . .), point of view ,
 * 6) Was it easy or difficult to read? Fun and rewarding to read?
 * 7) What qualifies the author to write this book?
 * 8) Does the book deliver on its promise? (What does it promise? What does it deliver? Cite evidence.)
 * 9) For nonfiction books what is your assessment of the quality of the argument, evidence, and exposition?
 * 10) * Is the book intellectually honest?
 * 11) What, if anything, is the original contribution this book makes?
 * 12) What did you learn? What insights did you gain? Does the book make a unique contribution to knowledge or wisdom? Does it provide a new and better way to present difficult material?
 * 13) What surprised you? Did you ever have an ah-ha moment while reading the book?
 * 14) For a fiction book, consider: Did you get lost in the book? What are the salient plot points? Did the book achieve emotional entrainment? Was the character development intriguing? Did you care about the characters?
 * 15) Which part attracts you most? Which ones were boring? Which chapter is the key-point of the story? Which portions did you like most? Why?
 * 16) What is your favorite quote from the book? Why?
 * 17) What creative value does this book contribute?
 * 18) How does this book affect you on the whole? How does the author achieve this?, How does each role affect the story?
 * 19) What is missing?
 * 20) Does the book sparkle? A book that sparkles is fun to read, breaks new ground, communicates in memorable ways, uses images effectively, is accessible to a broad audience, and influences a significant readership to change their assumptions, beliefs, or ways of thinking.
 * 21) Judge the book. Is it good or bad? Why?
 * 22) Who are your target readers for your review? Are you writing this review to serve someone? Is your review outstanding among all the reviews of this book?
 * 23) What, if anything, makes this an important work? What does the reader stand to gain by reading this book?
 * 24) Identify the design decisions were made in creating this book. Consider these areas, then comment on the most distinctive design choices:
 * Book aesthetics, format, and production:
 * Cover style and art.
 * Paper choice, size, trim
 * Typeface, font size, leading, margins, and other page layout choices.
 * Table of contents, notes, references, index, additional materials
 * Use of figures, photographs, graphics, graphic novel, . ..
 * Book Style
 * Reading level, vocabulary, sentence length.
 * Point of view (omniscient narrator, first person, . . .)
 * Serious, satire, humorous, academic, pedantic, frivolous
 * Comforting, call to action, alarming, disturbing,
 * Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, “What are you in the mood for?” A more extensive list of tone descriptors and a brief definition of each is avaliable in the above reference.
 * Humorous, solemn, distant, intimate, ironic, arrogant, condescending, authoritative, scholarly, sentimental, angry, melancholy, anguished, youthful, optimistic, deadpan, satirical, maudlin, self-righteous, and so on.
 * Book Semantics
 * Credible, speculative, innovative, drivel, …
 * Informative, argumentative, entertaining, …
 * Well organized, well argued, excellent supporting evidence,
 * Muddled logic, rambling
 * Coherence, consistency,flow