{"id":2062,"date":"2014-06-12T22:18:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T22:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/?page_id=2062"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:08:03","slug":"review-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/?page_id=2062","title":{"rendered":"{Book Review Guidelines}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>~. {Book Review Guidelines}<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>~. {My Blog Interests Are&#8230;.}.~<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>~. {my children are} &#8211;\u00a0 <\/strong>A <strong>{girl age 22, boy age 21, boy age 19, girl age 10, girl 8 and girl 6}<\/strong>. I will <strong>{review books older and younger than the ages of my children}<\/strong>, all you have to do is ask. I can even <strong>{if you&#8217;d liked like consider}<\/strong> adding another <strong>{section where my younger your children do book reports on books}<\/strong> that are within their age ranges. I think that <strong>{it could be something new and unique}<\/strong> that could be brought to the <strong>{book reviewing world}<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>{Book reports through the eyes of the children reading the books}<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>~. Books <strong>{family friendly only}<\/strong> &#8211; I prefer the actual book but will accept epub files.<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Note to <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">{authors}<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"> and <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">{publishers}<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>~.I\u00a0would love to have the opportunity to <strong>{read}<\/strong> and <strong>{review}<\/strong> your book. I\u00a0have a wide variety of interests. I prefer to read <strong>{children&#8217;s}<\/strong>, <strong>{middle grade}<\/strong> and <strong>{1st through 8th grade books and above}<\/strong>. \u00a0I am not very picky on the classification of them as long as they are <strong>{within my guidelines}<\/strong>. If your book is a part of a <strong>{series}<\/strong> I would like to read the<strong> {entire series}<\/strong> and <strong>{not be expected}<\/strong> to jump in and<strong> {read a book or books from the middle or the end}<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>~.I\u00a0will accept both \u00a0<strong>{arcs}<\/strong> and <strong>{already published}<\/strong> books. If you have a book you&#8217;d like me\u00a0to consider send me\u00a0the <strong>{description}<\/strong> and allow\u00a0 me to decide from there.<\/p>\n<p>~.I\u00a0will read <strong>{self published}<\/strong> books as long as they fall <strong>{within my requirements}<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>~.I\u00a0prefer to have the <strong>{hard copy}<\/strong> of the <strong>{book}<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>~.I\u00a0will accept <strong>{ebooks}<\/strong> in<strong>\u00a0{only <\/strong><strong>epub}<\/strong> files.<\/p>\n<p>~.I cannot stress how important it is to read the previous <strong>{books}<\/strong> in a <strong>{series}<\/strong> before being asked to jump in the middle of a <strong>{series}<\/strong>. I do not like being <strong>{lost when I am reading something}<\/strong> and most of the <strong>{series} <\/strong>makes <strong>{absolutely zero sense}<\/strong>, because I have not read the previous <strong>{books}<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>~.The main purpose of this blog is to <strong>{post reviews and possible book reports}<\/strong>. I post what I <strong>{like}<\/strong> about the books. I\u00a0post what I\u00a0don&#8217;t like about the <strong>{books}<\/strong>. I\u00a0will try not to talk down about a book. I\u00a0also do not post very long reviews. I\u00a0believe that the longer it gets, the more likely\u00a0I will <strong>{spoil}<\/strong> the book and that isn&#8217;t something I\u00a0want to take part in.<\/p>\n<p>~.If you have something other than a <strong>{review}<\/strong> you&#8217;d like me to post,<strong> {please feel free to ask}<\/strong>. Please make sure it falls in the <strong>{category}<\/strong> of what I\u00a0am willing to post in my\u00a0blog.<\/p>\n<p>~.I post all my\u00a0<strong>{reviews}<\/strong> here on my blog, I will no longer be <strong>{tweeting since twitter, has become X}<\/strong> them, I\u00a0post them on my<strong> {corresponding facebook page}<\/strong>, on <strong>{amazon}<\/strong> and on <strong>{goodreads}<\/strong>. I give the most honest reviews I possibly can. I\u00a0<strong>{rate}<\/strong> books based on a\u00a0 <strong>{five rating }<\/strong> system which is located in the right menu of my\u00a0blog. I\u00a0<strong>{try}<\/strong> to review them in a timely manner and will e-mail you the location to the blog post in which\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>{review\/s can be found}<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>~.I<strong>\u00a0{try}<\/strong> to do reviews in the order received. Please <strong>{do not}<\/strong> expect fast reviews, because <strong>{I may have others ahead of your request\/s}<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>~.Thank you for taking the time to read this. :}<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/signature-300x114.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/signature-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/signature.png 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~. {Book Review Guidelines} ~. {My Blog Interests Are&#8230;.}.~ ~. {my children are} &#8211;\u00a0 A {girl age 22, boy age 21, boy age 19, girl age 10, girl 8 and girl 6}. I will {review books older and younger than the ages of my children}, all you have to do is ask. I can even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2062","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10725,"href":"https:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2062\/revisions\/10725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}