Jacob Mooney On Reviewing

http://voxpopulism.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/what-i-think-i-might-think/

Another perceptive post from Jacob Mooney. I like this --

"If a book review reads like a consumer report on a microwave, the reviewer has failed to take any chances, to have vision, and has let me down."(Mooney)

Or the academic-descriptive opposite: "Get it hot!"

One of only a few disagreements I have is his contention that a good review is, or should be, harder to write than a good poem.