What is In Which Much Concerns Words?
On January 11th, 2015, I published In Which Much Concerns Words with its first three reviews. Since then, I have posted reviews of almost every single book I read on this site. These reviews can be found nowhere else! I decided to start In Which Much Concerns Words because I read, write, and have far more fun with language than anyone should (such as constantly spooking in speanerisms). I hope to bring my own perspective to these books and to the world of books in general, interesting people in reading, helping book-lovers find the next great story, and adding new thoughts for those who have already read these books.
The books which I review will be ones that I read because I wanted to. I do not intend to feed the content of this site by reading Famous Author So-and-so's great new bestseller simply because it's supposed to be fantastic and amazing and people will want to read reviews of it, because when a new book by a big name in the novel world comes out, you can find plenty of reviews, good and bad, all over the place. I review books because I thought they'd be interesting, picked them up, read them, liked them (or didn't) and felt like saying something about my experience.
Up there's a photo of the top of my bookshelf, looking all fadey and cool with a filter, which especially lends a certain rustic quality to my collapsing copy of Inkheart. On the main page I've put a nice picture of the second level of my bookshelf (trust me, there's less Warriors than it would appear from this image; I was just a little in love with the series when I was younger, and have now branched out to loads more), the one on which I vertically stack to-reads--because the effect of books going one way and books going another is rather more romantic-looking than just a straight row of lined-up books standing to attention because the shelves are so crammed that there's no room for a book to flop around; oh, no. All those stacked books I have long since read and posted reviews for on In Which Much Concerns Words. (And if you were wondering where I came up with that title, I happen to be an obsessive fan of "In Which" chapter titles. They're just so inexplicably funny. I think I got hooked when I read Howl's Moving Castle in second grade--I fell in love with the chapter title "In Which Howl Expresses His Feelings with Green Slime," among other things such as the "yattering" skull in the sink. Many other good books followed that had In Which chapters, and now I'm writing my own book with In Which chapters.)
The books which I review will be ones that I read because I wanted to. I do not intend to feed the content of this site by reading Famous Author So-and-so's great new bestseller simply because it's supposed to be fantastic and amazing and people will want to read reviews of it, because when a new book by a big name in the novel world comes out, you can find plenty of reviews, good and bad, all over the place. I review books because I thought they'd be interesting, picked them up, read them, liked them (or didn't) and felt like saying something about my experience.
Up there's a photo of the top of my bookshelf, looking all fadey and cool with a filter, which especially lends a certain rustic quality to my collapsing copy of Inkheart. On the main page I've put a nice picture of the second level of my bookshelf (trust me, there's less Warriors than it would appear from this image; I was just a little in love with the series when I was younger, and have now branched out to loads more), the one on which I vertically stack to-reads--because the effect of books going one way and books going another is rather more romantic-looking than just a straight row of lined-up books standing to attention because the shelves are so crammed that there's no room for a book to flop around; oh, no. All those stacked books I have long since read and posted reviews for on In Which Much Concerns Words. (And if you were wondering where I came up with that title, I happen to be an obsessive fan of "In Which" chapter titles. They're just so inexplicably funny. I think I got hooked when I read Howl's Moving Castle in second grade--I fell in love with the chapter title "In Which Howl Expresses His Feelings with Green Slime," among other things such as the "yattering" skull in the sink. Many other good books followed that had In Which chapters, and now I'm writing my own book with In Which chapters.)