What’s going on in the wonderful world of book review tags at All About Romance? I’m so glad you asked! Updating: Based on commenter feedback, I’ve revised my process for checking and/or updating the tags on new reviews. For most categories, I don’t search for books which received a grade below B-. This is so…
Last fall, I wrote a blog post about using tags at AAR, which you can find under the Vox Populi tab on the main website. (Using Tags to Find Books You Love) Everything I said in that post remains true, such as the lack of any kind of systematic purpose to my tags and the…
In several recent blog post comments, I’ve shared links to AAR tags. I’d like to talk a little bit more about the project to improve and standardize tags in our database, and to share some direct links for using them.
Yesterday, I shared our tag system. Today, I want to share more of the tags we use the most often. Time settings: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Arthurian, The Anarchy Matilda of vs. Stephen, Norman Conquest, 1500s, Tudor, Elizabethan, 1600s, English Civil War, Georgian, Colonial US romance, American Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, Reconstruction Era,…
For years I’ve kept a Word document to track the many print books I read. It includes such details as title, author, date read, and grade as well as links to my personal reviews. My dear document has grown to 64 pages with hundreds of links. It’s unwieldy and most certainly not a perfect system,…
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