Do you summarize?

Lately I've come to realize that writing reviews is a lot more stressful and full of pressure than it should be. As somebody who prides myself on my writing ability, I find myself spending a lot of time making sure the review is perfect. Although I enjoy writing reviews and sharing my thoughts- there's one thing I don't enjoy and that is summaries! Having to come up with a unique plot summary for each book I review honestly is the most time-consuming part of writing reviews for me and the least-enjoyable.

So I had a thought. Plenty of big blogs just use a summary already available like the one from Goodreads. Why not me? I think this would allow me to focus on the personal part of the review and you'd still have an easily accessible synopsis so you know what I am talking about. I think this will make writing reviews a lot more fun for me.

Anyway, I am curious on your thoughts so I'm including a mini poll. Please let me know what you think, it's anonymous and I'd really love to get some feedback on this issue. Feel free to comment as well about your own thoughts.



Thanks for your feedback!

Free Books (+ Shipping?)

Just a small question of curiosity, would anyone be interested if I had books for offer where the person just had to pay the cost of shipping? I'd love to share more of my books, especially ARCs, but the cost of shipping is prohibitive of me doing more giveaways as I'm a broke student. I'm in Canada so shipping isn't too bad for Canada and the US but more expensive internationally. It would be an eclectic collection of YA and Adult books. The books would be ones that had been read once and treated extremely gently as that is how I care for my books. I've put up a poll or you can answer in the comments. Thanks so much.