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# How to write a book review step-by-step
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If you like reading and want to share your recommendations with your followers on social networks, or if you have had to read a book at school and you are asked to write a review, you have to follow a series of concrete steps so that you can provide all the necessary information. These particular steps can also serve you as an [article review example](https://www.wowessays.com/type-of-paper/article-review/) to make your writing process easier. Let's take a look at how to write a book review step by step.

First, it is essential to clarify a fundamental point: to know what a review is. A review is nothing more than writing a text in which, through a summary and a personal commentary on a book you have read, you invite someone to buy it. In the specific case of a [book review](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_review) of a textbook assigned for school, your task will not be to encourage your teacher to run to the bookshop to buy the book in question but to show that you have read it, explaining what it is about and what your impression is of what you have read. So let's look at how to write a good book review, step by step.

***Steps to writing a book review***
The first thing you should do when you are assigned a review is, of course, to read the book in question.
As you read the book, highlight, underline, use post-it notes, or write down the paragraphs or parts that stand out to you in a separate notebook so that you can easily find them when you need to. Once you have read the whole book, and have underlined what is most important to you, let's go on to the revision. You have to enter a series of concepts:
* Information about the book in question: title, year of publication, name of the publisher.
* Short biography of the author
* A short summary of his style, his works, and the period in which he writes
* The plot of the book
* Stylistic analysis
* Comments and personal judgments

The book's plot should show that you have actually read the work in question, and yet, contrary to popular belief, this is not the passage to which you will have to devote most of your time. Try to be synthetic (fifteen lines will suffice) and report the most salient facts of the book.

***Stylistic analysis***
It is probably the part to which you will have to devote the most time and attention. To make it easier, try to answer the following questions:
1. Are the periods used by the author long and complex or simple?
1. Does the author prefer subordinate sentences (propositions that depend on other, e.g., I went to his house because he asked me to several times) or coordinated sentences (propositions that are independent and even taken out of the context of the period, e.g., Luis and Marco went to the beach and had a swim)?
1. Is there a particular use of punctuation?
1. Is the lexis (or words used) simple or sophisticated?
1. Is dialogue or description predominant?
1. What is the genre of the work?
1. How are the characters characterized?

Try to find possible figures of speech, first of all, metaphor: it is essential to understand if the author is trying to give us a message between the lines or if everything is well explained. When answering these questions, you will have to create a text with its logical consequence that does not appear as a simple list of answers.

***Comments and personal judgments***
Your personal judgment should occupy the last part of a book review.
Avoid banality ("I liked it / I didn't like it because...") and try to talk about the aspects of the work that struck you, taking care to argue your opinions and impressions each time. Reflect on what you have read, what emotions aroused in you, and what message you take away from the beautiful experience of reading a book.
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