{"id":11198,"date":"2011-09-17T11:17:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11198"},"modified":"2011-09-17T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T15:17:57","slug":"decoding-book-review-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/17\/decoding-book-review-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoding book review language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever bought a book on the recommendation of a book review, then found it didn&#8217;t match up to your expectations? <a href=\"https:\/\/oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/21\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is a useful guide to what the reviewer is <em>actually saying<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cabsorbing\u201d<\/strong>: \u201cmakes a great coaster\u201d @DonLinn Don Linn, publishing consultant<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201caccessible\u201d<\/strong>: \u201cnot too many big words\u201d @MarkKohut Mark Kohut, writer and consultant<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cacclaimed\u201d<\/strong>: \u201cpoorly selling\u201d @BloomsburyPress Peter Ginna, publisher, Bloomsbury Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cbreakout book\u201d<\/strong>: \u201cHail Mary pass\u201d @BookFlack Larry Hughes, associate director of publicity, the Free Press at Simon &#038; Schuster<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cbrilliantly defies categorization\u201d<\/strong>: \u201ceven the author has no clue what he\u2019s turned in\u201d @james_meader James Meader, publicity director of Picador USA<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201ccaptures the times we live in\u201d<\/strong>: \u201ccaptures the times we were living in two years ago\u201d @mathitak Mark Athitakis, critic<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cclassroom-friendly\u201d<\/strong>: \u201ckids won\u2019t read it unless they have to\u201d @LindaWonder, Linda White, book promoter at Wonder Communications<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever bought a book on the recommendation of a book review, then found it didn&#8217;t match up to your expectations? Here is a useful guide to what the reviewer is actually saying: \u201cabsorbing\u201d: \u201cmakes a great coaster\u201d @DonLinn Don Linn, publishing consultant \u201caccessible\u201d: \u201cnot too many big words\u201d @MarkKohut Mark Kohut, writer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57,28],"tags":[86,400,134],"class_list":["post-11198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-media","tag-criticism","tag-language","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2UC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11199,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions\/11199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}