Book review: Encyclopedia - Book review

The book review (or book report) is a form of literary criticism carried out in periodicals, as school work, and now online. It may be in length from a single paragraph, up to a substantial essay. Book reviews are generally supposed to be evaluations of the book, if only on the basis of personal taste. Reviewers, in literary periodicals, often use the occasion of a book review for a display of learning or to promulgate

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