book review, n.All

A Book review is rarely easily dismissed by a writer. Writers fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

A Book review is, when bad, like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

The Book review can always be summed up thusly: People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

A Book review sometimes takes so long to write that one never gets around to reading the book.

Book review is the act of reading out of a book the qualities that one has first read into it.

The Book review is an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

A Book review is a brief but informative essay that spares readers the ordeal of digesting an actual book.

A Book review is often an exercise in self-aggrandizement — One cannot review a bad book without showing off.