Comments on: Your Qualifications, Ma’am? http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=3779 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:59:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: pop tart http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=3779&cpage=1#comment-9483 pop tart Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:54:38 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=3779#comment-9483 As someone who used to review for AAR I say hear, hear Blythe. I always get a little annoyed when reviewers (all over the place, not just at AAR) try to qualify things in discussions, “well it’s just one person’s opinion” is used quite frequently as a defense when challenged about a review.

Yes it’s one person’s opinion, but it’s one person who’s read hundreds and thousands of these books; including the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. So I can say with confidence that the reviews being posted at AAR are not just one person’s opinion, they are one EXPERT’s opinion.

]]> By: Ann Stephens http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=3779&cpage=1#comment-9467 Ann Stephens Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:52:48 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=3779#comment-9467 I think you just gave me some new books for my non-fiction TBR pile. Thanks :)

]]> By: Blythe http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=3779&cpage=1#comment-9453 Blythe Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:32:04 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=3779#comment-9453 SandyH,

If you haven’t read The Tipping Point, I highly recommend that one as well. I might have another piece in me on reviewers as mavens. ;)

]]> By: Janet W http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=3779&cpage=1#comment-9417 Janet W Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:24:51 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=3779#comment-9417 I agree! Expert reader checking in :)

]]> By: SandyH http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=3779&cpage=1#comment-9408 SandyH Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:45:08 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=3779#comment-9408 I found this blog entry interesting because I just finished reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. I have read Blink as well. I found the idea of 10,000 hours of work equals becoming really good at something to be quite interesting. A very valid theory.

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