float_on_alright | Book Review Habits: A Consideration (Reply)

I didn’t even bother to really write yesterday. I did write a review for one of the books I read, Aquaman: The Trench. I’m not sure why I felt the need or inclination or whatever to write a review for it, but the mood struck me and so I did. I wonder if there’s a pattern to my review writing. Obviously, anything I get from NetGalley that I read, I review, but I wonder if, for every so many books I finish, the urge strikes me and I write a review. I’ve never noticed a pattern, but that doesn’t mean there is one. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that there’s a way to track such a thing. I could look into how many books I’ve reviewed as compared to how many books I’ve read I suppose, which wouldn’t be an easy feat but might be possible. Still, I’m not sure how well that would factor in the books I’m re-reading especially if I have already written a review for the title. Alternatively, I suppose I could start keeping track of how many books I’ve read between each review I feel like writing, but I feel like watching myself for a pattern would skew the results of the “study.” There’s a reason that they try to make psychological and medical studies unbiased and double-blind with a control group.

Maybe that’s making the question a bit more serious than it really needs to be, but at the same time, what’s the point of doing an “experiment” if you’re not going to be reasonably sure of the results? I suppose going through the last few months of books read versus books review would give some kind of decent ratio and possibly show a pattern, but I think that would end up being an extraordinary amount of work. Unless I can show whether or not the book has been reviewed on Goodreads when I sort them by date read. I should probably look into that.