Mark's Book Blog: Wanted: Guest Blogger for The Lost Symbol

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Wanted: Guest Blogger for The Lost Symbol

If the Amazon best seller list is the accurate indicator that it purports to be, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, the follow up to The Da Vinci Code, is one of the most popular and eagerly anticipated reads in a while. Its status at or near the top of the list rivals that of certain self help/spiritual books, political books pandering to the extreme right or extreme left, the Harry Potter books and, I suppose, the Twilight books.

As I've stated on this blog, I'm not going to be among the first to buy and read The Lost Symbol. I would very much like it if you (however many "you" are) would blog about the novel for me. You can email me your post and let me know if you want credit (or blame) for your blog. I'm happy to post anonymously, and I'm happy to post multiple blogs about the book.

I'm also working on a standard sign off for my entries (you know, like "You stay classy, San Diego"). I may come up with a "Top Ten" of possibilities for my next entry. (I'm still killing time as it's taking me more time than usual to get through my current read).

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TeddSeptember 17, 2009 at 10:35 AM
The book was magically delivered to my Kindle at 12:01 am on September 15th. I haven't started it yet, but I will let you know what I think when I do.
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Welcome to Mark's Book Blog!

Why did I set this up? Several reasons.

1. I'm constantly asked for book recommendations. I often cannot remember what I've read recently and, consequently, struggle for a recommendation. This will keep me up to date.

2. We're all busy. Sometimes I forget what I liked and what I didn't like about a book I read a month or two ago. As a result, this blog commits me to memorialize a book shortly after reading the book.

3. I, too, want book recommendations from those I trust (so I may or may not read your recommendation). From this blog, you can see what I've liked--you may not like my taste, may never come back to the blog--that's ok. If, though, you like some or all of what I like, tell me. And, more importantly, tell me what else I'd like!

Here's my recommendation scale--I will rate all books I read (subject to my ability to rate a book that I stop reading for good reason). The recommendation scale has gone through many iterations since inception of the blog and is effective for all books recommended on or after December 29, 2009. For the recommendation scale applicable to books recommended prior to that time, go here.

This blog uses a "grading" system. In order to accomplish the blog's goal of "recommending" books, the grading scale works out like this:

A - Highly recommended

B - Recommended

C - OK, you might like it

D - A waste of time

F - A HUGE waste of time

If a book, let's say it's a sports-themed, non-fiction book, earns a recommendation in the "A" range, the blog post will note that the book is "Highly recommended for fans of [we'll just insert the sport of tonsil hockey here as a placeholder]." In other words, even an "A" recommendation may not be a book that I suggest you read. It depends on your tastes. Certainly some books in the "A" range will be recommended to all.

One other note. I am generally a stickler for grammar and punctuation (for using made-up words like "stickler," not so much). As I've stated in various posts, I am well aware that this blog does not utilize the well-established "underline book titles" convention. There are some places where book titles are in quotes. There are other places where book titles are merely capitalized. While I apologize in advance for being such a heathen as to ignore this convention, it bothers me. It really does. This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up nights. Seriously. I decided, however, about 50 posts in that I would make the lack of consistency in the identification of book titles the consistency for the site. Therefore and henceforth, I will utilize whatever convention I want in any willy nilly fashion I see fit.

Mark

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Wanted: Guest Blogger for The Lost Symbol

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