Twitter serves as a great resource for bookworms. It鈥檚 full of book critics and enthusiasts who offer recommendations.
Among the best resources is , a librarian and best-selling author.
Ms. Pearl has worked as a librarian and bookseller in Detroit, Seattle, and Tulsa, Okla. She gained popularity after her best-selling book 鈥淟ust鈥� was released in 2003. (Fun fact: there is a Librarian Action Figure modeleted after her.)
On Twitter, Pearl often gives recommendations for mystery novels, memoirs, essays, and other genres.
鈥淚n the case of Nancy Pearl, I love her book recommendations, especially the less familiar ones,鈥� says Books editor Marjorie Kehe ().
For more critical reviews, two useful resources are of the New York Times and of The Washington Post.
If you鈥檙e a reader of the Monitor鈥檚 Book section, chances are you鈥檙e also familiar with New York Times book critic Mr. Garner. He tweets out his book reviews regularly, as well as the occasional Harry Potter reference and personal recommendation.
Mr. Charles, the fiction editor at The Post, tweets throughout the day, from articles to interacting with other readers.
However, he is also conscious of his use of Twitter as a book critic. In The Post鈥檚 TheStyle , Charles responds to an essay by Jacob Silverman that claims Twitter has made book critics too soft.
Charles agreed with Mr. Silverman鈥檚 concerns about an 鈥渆pidemic of niceness鈥� in book reviews, but he also attributes this trend to consumer interests and the shrinking news industry: 鈥溾�nly the most oblivious 鈥� or principled 鈥� freelance critics could fail to notice the relative popularity of their own positive reviews. When you really, really like a book, your review appears on the front of the Arts section and high on the Arts homepage, and a link to it gets tweeted around the world鈥︹��
Yet he also tells Silverman that if he wants to read honest book reviews that they鈥檙e still 鈥渏ust a click away.鈥�
