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Here at The Book Corner, we love to read books and have for a very long time. We know that writing book reviews feels like a school assignment, but it’s really not. A lot of people don’t know what book reviews are  useful for.


Well for starters, say you have just finished a really good book and you want to remember what happened for as long as you possibly can. How do you do this? 


Simple, you take a few minutes out of your busy life to write a book review, so that if you ever forget what happened you can just read the book review and remember what happened in the book.


Also, if you go on to websites like goodreads, you can share your book reviews and read other peoples reviews as well. How is this helpful?


Well, it means that if you are thinking about reading a book but your not really sure if you’ll like it or not, you can read what other people think of it and that could help you to make your decision.


Book reports can also be a good way to come to terms with the book that you have just finished reading, and,by comparing your book review with someone else's, you could get a better understanding of the book you have just read.


This is useful because it means that you get more out of the book that you have finished reading. Another thing that is useful about comparing your book reviews with other people’s is that by reading their opinion on a book it may alter your opinion on it,changing your reading experience completely


It is also a good way to test your knowledge on that particular book. If you can fill out a decent book report about the book then you have a grasp on what happened, if you can’t write a book review on it, you have a slightly weaker grasp on the concept of the book.


This is what book reviews are used for in school. They help the teacher figure out how strong of an understanding you have on the book you were doing the book review on. This is very useful for teachers.


Since we at the Book Corner, feel like that teachers should not assign certain books for their class, so it can also be a way to figure out what kind of books their students enjoy reading.It also makes writing the book review more fun.


We are not suggesting that you write a book review for every book you read, just the ones that you want to remember, ones that you want to test yourself on and ones that you are a bit confused on.


We at The Book Corner, we would really like if you would send us some of your book reviews so that we can put them upon the blog alongside all of our weekly blog posts. 


Email them to us at thebookcorner2020@gmail.com


Happy Reading,

The Book Corner


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