Format of writing book review

Format of writing book

A book review should have the following guidelines:

1.     Introduction

The introduction should cover the title and authors. The author’s writing techniques should be included in the introductory paragraph. I. t should include the main theme.

2.     Body

The first body paragraph should have brief plot of the book. Describe the character and objective description of main parts of the text. Summarize the book considering the answer to these questions: goals of the characters, conflict of the plot, resolving of the conflict.

3.     Talk about theoretical perspectives, language, diction point of view

4.     Write about main message author wants to convey and whether the author met his destination or not.

5.     Finally conclude the review.

A sample of book Review

Name of book/ title: Half a
Life

Author: V. S. Naipaul

Genre: Novel

Published date: 2001

Pages: 211

Half a Life is the novel written by V. S. Naipaul presents the story of Willie Somerset Chandran. It presents the story of migration of shifting from india to England to Africa. The novel begins with an omniscient narrator, but after half a page Naipaul switches to the first person, allowing Willie's father to recount the story of the origins of Willie's unlikely name, as well as his own pathetic, misled life. Naipaul has a good example of storytelling.

 Willie's father complains that he "unfitted" himself for life by abandoning his education ("in response to the mahatma's call"). Though from a good family, with a promising future, he became a mendicant -- the only escape he could see for a foolish predicament he got himself into. Not only that, he also takes a vow of silence -- rendering him unable to explain himself, or to tell his tale. Silence, of course, easily passes for wisdom, and Willie's father chances to impress a visiting writer -- Somerset Maugham. So much so that Maugham recounts their meeting in a travel book he subsequent publishes, and eventually -- so Willie's father -- "foreign critics began to see in me the spiritual source of The Razor's Edge". Willie's father got himself into this situation by turning his back on family and tradition and looking to "marry the lowest person I could find". At university there is a "backward" caste student he has his eyes on. Not because she is attractive or appealing, but because she fits his image of the sacrifice he wants to make. He winds up marrying her, and he even makes something of his life (through his oddly found fame), but it is, understandably, a family history that shocks and disappoints young Willie. then his escape to England, to study. Here, too, stories are important, a form of communication in the household where Willie (like his father before him) does not feel he can express things directly. Willie writes several compositions which are lauded at school but which outrage and disappoint his actual audience -- his father.
 Willie escapes to England, eager just "to get away from what he knew". Despite not having finished his own mission-school education, despite already being twenty, he gets a scholarship to "a college of education for mature students". The world he enters is a completely foreign one. He fumbles -- for friendship, for sex, for acceptance -- and achieves at least a measure of most of these. He finds mate follows her and further get satisfied and goes to Germany where his sister living and narrates own story and completes. The novel ends with no proper enduring.

 

The novel presents the Indian subcontinent life and its ups and downs in cross cultural aspects. It creates frustration in characters. Willie is an example.  
     Willie also writes a book, and is able to publish it. It is not a success, and critical reception. He thought, “Let the book die. Let it fade away. Let me not be reminded of it. I will write no more. This book was not something I should have done, anyway. It was artificial and false”.

The book presents the present dilemma complex of south Asian youngsters as they are willing to flee to abroad as Willie wants. But they are not confident enough to carry the job as a career as willie gives up publishing a book. It shades the light of positivity in youngsters but soon they are saddened by the decision of the principle character. He has no firm objectives, no clear ambitions simply moments of promise. He was free to present himself as he wished. He could, as it were, write his own revolution. The possibilities were dizzying. He could, within reason, remake himself and his past and his ancestry he can’t grab the opportunities, simply disillusioned his ambition.

The book presents the fear the writer who may imagine getting unsacred however the constant fear of failure has been the one of dark side of the book. The language is simple to understand. The flow of the plot makes reader engaged with the text.  If the author has created the main character to fight with the situation, the positive strength could have spread to modern immigrants. Nevertheless, the book has its own impression and get the title justified.

 

 

 

 

A book review should have the following guidelines:

1.     Introduction

The introduction should cover the title and authors. The author’s writing techniques should be included in the introductory paragraph. I. t should include the main theme.

2.     Body

The first body paragraph should have brief plot of the book. Describe the character and objective description of main parts of the text. Summarize the book considering the answer to these questions: goals of the characters, conflict of the plot, resolving of the conflict.

3.     Talk about theoretical perspectives, language, diction point of view

4.     Write about main message author wants to convey and whether the author met his destination or not.

5.     Finally conclude the review.

A sample of book Review

Name of book/ title: Half a
Life

Author: V. S. Naipaul

Genre: Novel

Published date: 2001

Pages: 211

Half a Life is the novel written by V. S. Naipaul presents the story of Willie Somerset Chandran. It presents the story of migration of shifting from india to England to Africa. The novel begins with an omniscient narrator, but after half a page Naipaul switches to the first person, allowing Willie's father to recount the story of the origins of Willie's unlikely name, as well as his own pathetic, misled life. Naipaul has a good example of storytelling.

 Willie's father complains that he "unfitted" himself for life by abandoning his education ("in response to the mahatma's call"). Though from a good family, with a promising future, he became a mendicant -- the only escape he could see for a foolish predicament he got himself into. Not only that, he also takes a vow of silence -- rendering him unable to explain himself, or to tell his tale. Silence, of course, easily passes for wisdom, and Willie's father chances to impress a visiting writer -- Somerset Maugham. So much so that Maugham recounts their meeting in a travel book he subsequent publishes, and eventually -- so Willie's father -- "foreign critics began to see in me the spiritual source of The Razor's Edge".Willie's father got himself into this situation by turning his back on family and tradition and looking to "marry the lowest person I could find". At university there is a "backward" caste student he has his eyes on. Not because she is attractive or appealing, but because she fits his image of the sacrifice he wants to make. He winds up marrying her, and he even makes something of his life (through his oddly found fame), but it is, understandably, a family history that shocks and disappoints young Willie. then his escape to England, to study. Here, too, stories are important, a form of communication in the household where Willie (like his father before him) does not feel he can express things directly. Willie writes several compositions which are lauded at school but which outrage and disappoint his actual audience -- his father.
 Willie escapes to England, eager just "to get away from what he knew". Despite not having finished his own mission-school education, despite already being twenty, he gets a scholarship to "a college of education for mature students". The world he enters is a completely foreign one. He fumbles -- for friendship, for sex, for acceptance -- and achieves at least a measure of most of these. He finds mate follows her and further get satisfied and goes to Germany where his sister living and narrates own story and completes. The novel ends with no proper enduring.

 

The novel presents the Indian subcontinent life and its ups and downs in cross cultural aspects. It creates frustration in characters. Willie is an example.  
     Willie also writes a book, and is able to publish it. It is not a success, and critical reception. He thought, “Let the book die. Let it fade away. Let me not be reminded of it. I will write no more. This book was not something I should have done, anyway. It was artificial and false”.

The book presents the present dilemma complex of south Asian youngsters as they are willing to flee to abroad as Willie wants. But they are not confident enough to carry the job as a career as willie gives up publishing a book. It shades the light of positivity in youngsters but soon they are saddened by the decision of the principle character. He has no firm objectives, no clear ambitions simply moments of promise. He was free to present himself as he wished. He could, as it were, write his own revolution. The possibilities were dizzying. He could, within reason, remake himself and his past and his ancestry he can’t grab the opportunities, simply disillusioned his ambition.

The book presents the fear the writer who may imagine getting unsacred however the constant fear of failure has been the one of dark side of the book. The language is simple to understand. The flow of the plot makes reader engaged with the text.  If the author has created the main character to fight with the situation, the positive strength could have spread to modern immigrants. Nevertheless, the book has its own impression and get the title justified.