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Book reports are all about you and your own understanding of a text. Book reviews just let you observe a book from a safe, judgmental distance.
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So you've probably written your fair share of book reports but what about [Pile of book reports]
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book reviews and yes they definitely sound similar but trust us there are
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some big differences kinda like how a dog park is really really really different [Dog playing with a ball]
- 00:15
from a dog parking lot who lets dogs drive anyway... And better question, who [Dogs parking cars]
- 00:20
let the dogs out woof woof.. Anyway one big difference between book [Dog swimming]
Full Transcript
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reports and book reviews is the purpose they're meant to serve. Book reports are
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all about you, you write the book report to show off how well you understood the
- 00:36
story, the characters, the themes ,you know all that fun stuff and don't worry about [Girl typing on a laptop]
- 00:40
looking too much like a smarty pants we hear they're going to be all the rage at
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the next Paris Fashion Week. A book review on the other hand is written to [Woman wearing trousers with nerdy looking glasses]
- 00:48
help out someone else, if you've read the book but they haven't then it's up to
- 00:53
you to give them a general idea of what happens in the book and your own
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evaluation of the book basically it's your job to tell them whether this book [Man reading a book]
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is so good that it's a must read or so bad that it's a must unread that's
- 01:06
when you read the entire book backwards we're 90% sure that works... Well the [Woman looks confused while reading a laptop]
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summary part of the book review is a tricky tightrope to walk your reader
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hasn't read the book so you do want them to know who the main characters are and
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give them a general idea about where the story is going but you don't want to [Man telling woman about a book in a park]
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give the entire story away. Spoilers don't just don't just spoil books they spoil
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reviews too. Remember you're just trying to give them a little taste of the book
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rather than feeding them the entire time one gulp [Man looks terrified as big book comes towards him]
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which fun fact is never good for your digestion whether we're talking food or
- 01:40
books. Okay fine fun-ish fact, whatever. Next comes the reviewy part of the [Man holding his stomach looks in pain]
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review where you make your evaluation of the book there are all sorts of things
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you can focus on like the stuff you enjoyed, how the book compares to the
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author's other books, how the book compares to other books in the same
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genre, or how effective the themes are and last but certainly not least don't
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be afraid to be honest. You want to give it a thumbs down well that's totally
- 02:06
okay. The book might cry and need it eat its feelings [Tears falling onto book pages]
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but whatever...
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