RULES & WELCOME!

[theory]

WELCOME to FABLES, the literary hotspot of Dreamwidth! Long story short, this community was made for people to review and recommend books, as well as discuss the literary thematics within those books. We're a generally laid-back and friendly community, so to keep that cool persona, we've gotta lay down a few ground rules that are essentially common sense anyway.

✏ In order to maintain the integrity of this community, please try to post your reviews with some kind of formality. No one will care so much if you type normally in the comments, but for the sake of coherency, standard English should be used in the review post itself.
✏ Your opinions are desired and valued, so we encourage discussion.
✏ Please be kind and respectful to everyone. We do not discriminate based on any belief, so keep in mind the right of others to be respected. There is a big difference between criticism and insult.
✏ This is the standard form for posting reviews; you are welcome to jazz it up however you'd like, but please make sure to have all of the fields included.
<b>TITLE |</b> <b>AUTHOR |</b> <b>LANGUAGE |</b> <b>GENRE |</b> <b>PUBLICATION INFORMATION |</b> Date, Company, ISBN, etc. <b>SYNOPSIS |</b> <b>SHORT REVIEW |</b> usually consists of a rating and a couple of initial thoughts that will be elaborated upon in the full review. <cut text="full review. PLEASE INCLUDE A SPOILER ALERT HERE IF YOU WILL BE INCLUDING SPOILERS IN YOUR REVIEW."> lorem ipsum insert your review here. </cut> <b>LAST THOUGHTS |</b> other books by this author you'd recommend, etc.
✏ You may also hold discussions about a book without writing a formal review. In that case, please include "[INSERT TITLE HERE] DISCUSSION" in the title and proceed as usual.
✏ PLEASE tag your posts thoroughly.

We can also hold a monthly book club-type event. Please let me know if you would be interested in that sort of thing!

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask on this post. Thank you very much, and happy reading! ♥

Comments

[lambo]

omg annay, this is such a nice layout/cute community idea♥

[theory]

AHH thank you, Lynn ♥ I wish I could take credit, but yosuke totally came up with the idea and I just rolled with it. 8')b

[allegory]

I think the monthly book club thing would be really neat. :O We kept meaning to do a group read of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle on LJ and never got around to it. |D

[baked]

I HAVE THIS BOOK I have read pages from it and loved it and would absolutely adore a book club to motivate me to finish it haha. YES COLLECTIVE READING.

[theory]

OH HECK YES. Considering that I'm only eighty pages in so far, I'd love to be able to read it with everyone! I'll make a post on it as soon as I can.

[alys]

I would love this; Wind-Up Bird is a fantastic book. Scratch that, everything Murakami writes is fantastic.

[wars]

ANNAY, A BOOK CLUB. ;~~~;

I am joining, though I won't be able to do anything until late June. ):