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 some interesting readings on book reviews http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/business/book-reviewers-for-hire-meet-a-demand-for-online-raves.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
 * the business of book reviews **


 * a book review **

http://bestsellers.about.com/od/fictionreviews/gr/twilight.htm

http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-words-and-graphics-a/


 * how to write a book review **

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http://www.lavc.edu/library/bookreview.htm

http://www.lauracandler.com/filecabinet/literacy/PDFRead/Book_Descriptions.pdf http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-descriptive-adjectives.html http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/adjectives/list-of-adjectives-to-describe-tone-feelings-emotions.html http://member.tokoha-u.ac.jp/~dixonfdm/Writing%20Topics%20htm/Movie%20Review%20Folder/movie_descrip_vocab.htm http://mrsrojasteaches.blogspot.gr/2011/10/lots-lots-of-lists-11-freebies.html

http://www.digitalpencil.org/Projects_AllGrades/BookReview/BookReview.aspx http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/worksheets/literacycenters/book%20review.pdf http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/worksheets/book_reports/non-fiction%20book%20report%202.pdf

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/book-reviews/ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/704/1/ http://www.goodnessmatters.com/book-reviews/good-book-review-these-is-my-words/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/books+tone/reviews http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/mainguides/explain.htm http://www.dailywritingtips.com/100-beautiful-and-ugly-words/ http://libraries.dal.ca/writing_and_styleguides/style_guides/book_reviews.html http://depts.washington.edu/histwrit/pdf/bkreview.pdf http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Book-Review http://slashdot.org/faq/bookreviews.shtml http://www.eslflow.com/Vocabulary_for_reviewing_films_and_movies.pdf http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-words-that-work-by/page-2/ http://www.dailywritingtips.com/stephen-king%E2%80%99s-on-writing/ http://www.dailywritingtips.com/category/vocabulary/ http://teacher.scholastic.com/wrItewIt/bookrev/index.htm

Η μεγάλη λογοτεχνία δίνει ώθηση στον εγκέφαλο μας
Τα έργα του Γουίλιαμ Σαίξπηρ και άλλων κλασικών συγγραφέων ωφελούν τον εγκέφαλο, αιχμαλωτίζουν την προσοχή του αναγνώστη και προκαλούν εσωτερική αναζήτηση. Χρησιμοποιώντας λειτουργικό μαγνητικό τομογράφο, οι επιστήμονες __#|στο__ Πανεπιστήμιο του Λίβερπουλ κατέγραψαν τη δραστηριότητα στον εγκέφαλο εθελοντών που διάβαζαν πρωτότυπα κείμενα των Σαίξπηρ, Γουίλιαμ Γούρντσγουορθ, Τ.Σ. Ελιοτ και άλλων. Στη συνέχεια μετέφρασαν τα κείμενα σε γλώσσα σύγχρονη και πιο απλή και τα έδωσαν στους ίδιους εθελοντές να τα διαβάσουν.

Οι εικόνες έδειξαν ότι στην πρώτη περίπτωση ο εγκέφαλος παρουσίασε πολύ μεγαλύτερη ηλεκτρική δραστηριότητα. Οι επιστήμονες κατέγραψαν __#|τις__ αντιδράσεις του εγκεφάλου σε κάθε λέξη και είδαν πώς ενεργοποιούνται τα διαφορετικά τμήματά του, ανάλογα με __#|τις__ ασυνήθιστες λέξεις και __#|τις__ δύσκολες φράσεις που διαβάζει το άτομο. Αυτή η ενεργοποίηση του νου διαρκεί αρκετή ώρα και ανεβάζει τον εγκέφαλο σε ένα **ανώτερο επίπεδο**, ενθαρρύνοντας τη συνέχιση της ανάγνωσης. Η έρευνα κατέδειξε επίσης ότι ειδικά **η ανάγνωση ποίησης αυξάνει τη δραστηριότητα στο δεξί μέρος του εγκεφάλου, ένα τμήμα που συνδέεται με την αυτοβιογραφική μνήμη, βοηθώντας τους αναγνώστες να σκεφτούν και να επανεκτιμήσουν τις δικές τους εμπειρίες σε σχέση με αυτά που διαβάζουν**. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο, λένε οι ειδικοί, **τα έργα των κλασικών συγγραφέων είναι πιο χρήσιμα από ό,τι τα βιβλία αυτοβοήθειας**. « **Η σοβαρή λογοτεχνία δίνει ώθηση στον εγκέφαλο. Η έρευνα κατέδειξε τη δυνατότητα της λογοτεχνίας να μετακινήσει πνευματικά μονοπάτια, να δημιουργήσει νέες σκέψεις, σχήματα και διασυνδέσεις σε άτομα κάθε ηλικίας** », εξηγεί στην Τζούλι Χένρι της εφημερίδας «Τέλεγκραφ» ο Φίλιπ Ντέιβις, φιλόλογος που συμμετείχε στην έρευνα. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

=http://xenesglosses.eu/2013/02/ta-ekato-kalytera-biblia-olon-ton-epox/ =

 **Πηγή:** []    <span style="background-color: #d1c7c8; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">

abridged
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|an] [|abridged] [|book], [|play] [|etc] [|has] [|been] [|made] [|shorter] [|than] [|the] [|original] [|but] [|contains] [|the] [|same] [|basic] [|story]

autobiographical
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|relating] [|to] [|someone’s] [|life] [|or] [|autobiography]

biographical
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|relating] [|to] [|the] [|facts] [|of] [|someone’s] [|life]

classic
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|a] [|classic] [|song], [|book] , [|play] , [|television] [|programme] [|etc] [|is] [|very] [|good] [|and] [|has] [|been] [|popular] [|and] [|had] [|a] [|lot] [|of][|influence] [|for] [|a] [|long] [|time]

epic
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|relating] [|to] [|the] [|writing] [|of] [|epics]

fictional
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|invented] [|for] [|a] [|book], [|play] , [|or] [|film]

fictional
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|relating] [|to] [|fiction]

fictitious
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|invented] [|for] [|a] [|book], [|play] , [|or] [|film]

filmic
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|a] [|filmic] [|novel], [|play] [|etc] [|is] [|like] [|a] [|film] , [|especially] [|in] [|the] [|way] [|that] [|it] [|describes] [|things] [|or] [|in] [|the] [|way] [|it] [|tells] [|a] [|story]

folklore
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> noun [|traditional] [|stories], [|sayings] , [|and] [|beliefs] [|from] [|a] [|particular] [|region] [|or] [|community]

gory
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|a] [|gory] [|film], [|computer] [|game] , [|or] [|story] [|involves] [|a] [|lot] [|of] [|killing] [|or] [|injuries]

historical
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|a] [|historical] [|novel], [|film] [|etc] [|is] [|based] [|on] [|people] [|or] [|events] [|that] [|existed] [|in] [|the] [|past]

juicy
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|juicy] [|stories] [|are] [|slightly] [|shocking] [|but] [|interesting] [|or] [|fun] [|to] [|listen] [|to]

knockabout
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> noun [|actions] [|or] [|stories] [|that] [|are] [|intended] [|to] [|make] [|you] [|laugh]

legendary
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|mentioned] [|or] [|described] [|in] [|a] [|legend]

mythic
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|relating] [|to] [|or] [|existing] [|only] [|in] [|myths]

mythical
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|relating] [|to] [|or] [|existing] [|only] [|in] [|myths]

non-linear
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|not] [|telling] [|a] [|story] [|in] [|the] [|order] [|in] [|which] [|events] [|happened]

overripe
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|things] [|such] [|as] [|stories] [|or] [|films] [|that] [|are] [|overripe] [|contain] [|so] [|much] [|emotion] [|that] [|they] [|seem] [|silly]. [|A] [|more][|usual] [|word] [|is] [|sentimental].

picaresque
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|a] [|picaresque] [|story] [|or] [|film] [|deals] [|with] [|the] [|exciting] [|things] [|that] [|happen] [|to] [|someone] [|who] [|is] [|easy] [|to] [|like][|despite] [|not] [|being] [|very] [|moral] [|or] [|honest]

racy
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|a] [|racy] [|story], [|film] , [|or] [|play] [|is] [|slightly] [|shocking] [|in] [|the] [|way] [|that] [|it] [|describes] [|or] [|shows] [|sex]

romantic
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|used] [|about] [|books], [|plays] , [|and] [|films] [|about] [|love]

Ruritanian
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|a] [|Ruritanian] [|novel] [|is] [|one] [|with] [|an] [|exciting] [|and] [|romantic] [|story]

spine-chilling
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|a] [|spine-chilling] [|story], [|book] , [|film] [|etc] [|is] [|very] [|frightening]

suspenseful
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|used] [|for] [|describing] [|something] [|such] [|as] [|a] [|story] [|or] [|a] [|film] [|that] [|keeps] [|you] [|wanting] [|to] [|know] [|what] [|will] [|happen][|next]

swashbuckling
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|swashbuckling] [|films], [|stories] [|etc] [|involve] [|a] [|lot] [|of] [|fights] [|and] [|exciting] [|experiences]

tragic
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|relating] [|to] [|plays] [|that] [|are] [|tragedies]

truthful
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|a] [|truthful] [|film], [|play] , [|book] [|etc] [|deals] [|with] [|a] [|subject] [|in] [|an] [|honest] [|way] [|by] [|showing] [|what] [|really] [|happens] [|in] [|a][|particular] [|situation]

unconvincing
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|an] [|unconvincing] [|character], [|story] , [|or] [|performance] [|is] [|difficult] [|to] [|believe] [|or] [|enjoy] , [|because] [|it] [|does] [|not] [|seem][|real] [|or] [|likely]

untold
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> adjective [|an] [|untold] [|story] [|has] [|never] [|been] [|read] [|or] [|heard] [|by] [|the] [|public]

allegorical
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> adjective

allegorically
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> adverb

biographically
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> adverb

mythological
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> adjective

racily
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> adverb

raciness
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> noun

tragicomic
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> adjective

a rattling good story/read
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: initial;">[|an] [|exciting] [|or] [|enjoyable] [|story]

hard-luck story
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|a] [|description] [|of] [|bad] [|things] [|that] [|have] [|happened] [|to] [|you] [|that] [|you] [|tell] [|someone] [|in] [|order] [|to] [|make] [|them] [|feel][|sorry] [|for] [|you]

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/thesaurus-category/british/Words-used-to-describe-stories

<span style="background-color: #d1c7c8; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">an example of book reviews <span style="background-color: #d1c7c8; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/english-skills-practice/read-your-level/life-pi-book-review-level-1 <span style="background-color: #d1c7c8; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">

<span style="color: #8f3778; font-family: 'PT Sans Caption',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The book and its author
<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">“The Life of Pi” is about a teenage boy from India, called Pi, who travels across the Pacific Ocean in a lifeboat. His companion in the lifeboat is an enormous tiger. It was written by the Canadian author Yann Martel, and has sold seven million copies worldwide.

<span style="color: #8f3778; font-family: 'PT Sans Caption',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The story
<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">At the start of the book, we learn about Pi’s childhood in India. His father is a zookeeper and the family live in a house in the zoo. Pi and his brother [|help] their father in the zoo and learn to look after the animals. When Pi is sixteen, his family decide to close the zoo and move to Canada. They sell some of the animals to zoos in North America and the family take the animals with them on a ship to Canada. On the way, there is a terrible storm and the ship sinks. Pi finds himself in a lifeboat with a hyena, zebra, orang-utan and a tiger. When he sees the animals, Pi is scared and he jumps into the ocean. Then he remembers there are sharks in the ocean and he climbs back into the lifeboat. Sadly, Pi’s family and the ship’s sailors die in the storm. One by one, the animals in the lifeboat kill and eat each other, till only Pi and the tiger are left alive. Luckily for Pi, there is some food and water on the lifeboat, but he soon needs to start catching fish. He feeds the fish to the tiger to stop it killing and eating him. He also uses a whistle and his knowledge of animals from the zoo to control the tiger. Pi and the tiger spend 227 days in the lifeboat. They live through terrible storms and are burnt by the Pacific sun. They are often hungry and ill. Sometimes, Pi is happy and hopeful, but sometimes he feels sad and lonely. Finally, they arrive at the coast of Mexico, but you will have to read the book to find out what happens in the end!

<span style="color: #8f3778; font-family: 'PT Sans Caption',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">What do you think?
<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Three teenagers give their opinions of “The Life of Pi”. > I think it’s an excellent book and I couldn’t stop reading it. In one chapter, Pi is in the lifeboat and he sings “Happy Birthday” to his mother on the day of her birthday, even though he thinks she is dead. It was a very sad moment and I wanted to cry.

> // Alex, 15 // > I didn’t like this book because it’s very slow and boring. In some chapters, there isn’t any action and we only read about what Pi is thinking.

> // Danny, 16 // > What a fascinating book! I enjoyed the story, but I also learnt so much about animals and surviving at sea. It’s a book for everyone to enjoy, old and young, men and women.

> // Paula, 18 //

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> //Robin Newton//

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/english-skills-practice/read-your-level/life-pi-book-review-level-1

<span style="background-color: #d1c7c8; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: #d1c7c8; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: #d1c7c8; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: #d1c7c8; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: #d1c7c8; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> E lizabeth Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1969, and grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm. She attended New York University, where she studied political science by day and worked on her short stories by night. After college, she spent several years traveling around the country, working in bars, diners and ranches, collecting experiences to transform into fiction. These explorations eventually formed the basis of her first book – a short story collection called PILGRIMS, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and which moved Annie Proulx to call her “a young writer of incandescent talent”. During these early years in New York, she also worked as a journalist for such publications as Spin, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. She was a three-time finalist for The National Magazine Award, and an article she wrote in GQ about her experiences bartending on the Lower East Side eventually became the basis for the movie COYOTE UGLY. In 2000, Elizabeth published her first novel, STERN MEN (a story of brutal territory wars between two remote fishing islands off the coast of Maine) which was a New York Times Notable Book. In 2002, Elizabeth published THE LAST AMERICAN MAN – the true story of the modern day woodsman Eustace Conway. This book, her first work of non-fiction, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Elizabeth is best known, however for her 2006 memoir EAT PRAY LOVE, which chronicled her journey alone around the world, looking for solace after a difficult divorce. The book was an international bestseller, translated into over thirty languages, with over 10 million copies sold worldwide. In 2010, EAT PRAY LOVE was made into a film starring Julia Roberts. The book became so popular that Time Magazine named Elizabeth as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2010, Elizabeth published a follow-up to EAT PRAY LOVE called COMMITTED—a memoir which explored her ambivalent feelings about the institution of marriage. The book immediately became a Number One New York Times Bestseller, and was also received with warm critical praise. As Newsweek wrote, COMMITTED “retains plenty of Gilbert’s comic ruefulness and wide-eyed wonder”, and NPR called the book “a rich brew of newfound insight and wisdom.” Her latest novel, THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, a sprawling tale of 19th century botanical exploration, will be published in autumn 2013. Elizabeth Gilbert lives in the small river town of Frenchtown, New Jersey, where she and her husband (more widely known as “That Brazilian Guy From EAT PRAY LOVE”) run a large and delightful imports store called TWO BUTTONS. http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/

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