It’s been a while since my last confession, so here’s another: You know those book reviews on Amazon.com that are signed “A Kid’s Review”? I don’t like ‘em.
I don’t like the way the individual writers of these reviews are lumped into this single, cookie-cutter category, as if the fact that the anonymous reviewer is “a kid” tells us everything we need to know — or anything, really – about the perspective he or she brings to the book in question.
And I don’t like the fact that writing these reviews took up time these young writers could have spent creating a story of their own, or reacting to a book they liked – or didn’t like – in some other, more sincere, more personal, more creative way.
You know, like posting about them on their blogs.
