<p>OK, I get that we are dinosaurs who actually subscribe to a newspaper…but our hometown rag has become so skimpy in the last years…we used to get great book reviews -mostly from new York papers that were paid add-ons like we used to get 4 pages of the Wall Street Journal on Sunday’s…
So, can anyone help with a good book review site that is free?
Book suggestions are also welcome…</p>
<p>Your libary might know. I subscribe to the NYTimes. They just informed me that they won’t have unlimited access to their paper after 3/28. But, you can access NYTimes book review until then.</p>
<p>Thanks lima beans, I’ll be mining the nytimes site for now.</p>
<p>Some of my favorite authors have blogs with good suggestions. You might find that works.</p>
<p>There’s this: [Home</a> | The New York Review of Books](<a href=“http://www.nybooks.com/]Home”>http://www.nybooks.com/)</p>
<p>You might look for reviews on the New Yorker on line. It’s a little hard to figure out where they are, but they are talking about books here: <a href=“http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/[/url]”>Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews | The New Yorker;
<p>I like this site:</p>
<p>[Reviews</a> of Books - Book Reviews](<a href=“http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/]Reviews”>http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/)</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/discovery_of_witches/[/url]”>http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/discovery_of_witches/</a></p>
<p>For fiction, this site offers access to multiple newspaper reviews (though I’m sure once the NYT paywall kicks in, it won’t be one of them): </p>
<p>[Fiction</a> Review Source 2010](<a href=“http://webserver1.oneonta.edu/faculty/coanj/top.html]Fiction”>http://webserver1.oneonta.edu/faculty/coanj/top.html)</p>
<p>(Despite the name, it includes 2011 reviews to date.)</p>
<p>Check your public library website, if it has one. Mine lets you subscribe to mailing lists in various genres. The reviews then come to your inbox once a month for each of the topics you subscribed. My library also has a facebook fanpage and twitter feed to keep patrons informed.</p>
<p>What are these “newspapers” of which you speak? I thought they went out with poodle skirts and love beads? ;)</p>
<p>Speaking as another dinosaur, I feel your pain, dragonmom. I’ve been moaning for years about our Detroit papers and how the book reviews have now shrunk to half a page. To add insult to injury, most of those reviews now cover fluffy how-to books and the latest beach read. Argh!</p>
<p>I use the NYTimes site all the time…</p>
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<p>You’ll still be able to access NYT articles from blog and Twitter links. Accordingly, this has been set up: [url=<a href=“http://twitter.com/#!/FreeNYT]FreeNYT[/url”>http://twitter.com/#!/FreeNYT]FreeNYT[/url</a>]</p>
<p>I still read the dead tree edition of the NYT every day. I’ll be very sad when (as is inevitable) they stop printing it.</p>
<p>Our local rag has dwindled away to almost nothing; it takes about five minutes to read. What irritates me most is the fact that now the subscribers are providing half the content. “Write the next chapter in our serial”, “send in your photos”, “send your favorite recipes”. I would be more forgiving if the paper were locally owned, but it’s a McClatchy newspaper. I’ve been saying for a long time that I will happily pay for the NYT online when the time comes.</p>
<p>For years we’ve subscribed to the NY Times, but only the Sunday edition. That’s enough to give us access to the online version every day, though.</p>
<p>Our beloved Sunday book section was dropped long ago and over time has dwindled to one page on Saturday. That one page is written as 1moremom describes, “send in an article about your book club”. A sidebar with two sentence publisher’s blurbs on children’s books.</p>
<pre><code>Doesn’t it make sense that people that read books are the most likely to subscribe and keep the newspaper afloat?
I do not buy the Sunday paper since the book section was dropped.
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<p>I still have two actual newspapers delivered to my house, the Times and the Newark Star-Ledger. I just enjoy sitting over the Times with my coffee inthe morning. I continue to support the local paper because I think the independent, local watchdog role needs to be supported, and someone’s got to pay for it.</p>
<p>I review new books professionally. You can find out a lot about new books through Amazon and Barnes and Nobles websites. On Amazon, the initial page lists the Amazon editor’s choices for best books of the month and season. The page for the individual books usually also have a review from a major review journal or newspaper. And of course you can read some of the reviews by buyers. </p>
<p>You can also use the “similar” features for each book, listing related choices by buyers for other similar books. </p>
<p>Barnes and Noble posts the reviews from major review sources for most books on its web site. </p>
<p>Your public library should have Publishers Weekly in the building somewhere, even if its not displayed with the other journals. That’s the main review journal in the book business, and you can read reviews (in advance though, so you have to wait for them to come out) and articles about authors. </p>
<p>Nancy Pearl, famous librarian who recommends books on our local NPR station, has several books of recommended titles. (Book Lust, etc.) She’s really good with the “if you like this book, then read this one next” approach.</p>
<p>I check out Amazon, NY Times Book Review, Saturday Wall Street Journal, and I keep up pretty well with what’s going on in publishing. Also look at the bestseller lists in NYTBR, both hardcover and paperback. You’ll find out what is new and popular, then you can read reviews of books you are interested in on Amazon before deciding what to buy or reserve at your library. And of course…you can ask your librarian for recommendations.</p>
<p>I still get our local paper- or rather I was talked into it recently by the carrier going door to door & signing up people. The sunday paper is free if you pay for the daily & I tried to get it delivered to a local school- but they had enough.</p>
<p>all I can say about the daily is , " If I was that thin, I would be fixin’ me a nice bowl of mac & cheese!" PLus it just isn’t the same reading the actual newspaper, now that we don’t have any cats to lay on it while I am trying to. ( although come to think of it, they also would try and sit on the keyboard as well. 
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<p>I don’t agree with Nancy Pearls book suggestions, or at least I haven’t from the few books that she has reviewed & I have read- I really don’t care for most fiction & that is what she seems to focus on. I like listening to her reviews anyway though- 
I do like the non-fiction books she recommends- go figure.
([I also do not have the action figure](<a href=“http://www.mcphee.com/laf/”>http://www.mcphee.com/laf/</a> ))
I actually do pretty well with reading reviews on Amazon, & looking at how my prior purchases make recommendations for me .</p>