What is Throwback Thursday?
I’ve noticed many of these memes on a few book blogs. For example, Susan Loves Books does one, which is (or was originally) hosted by Renee@It’s Book Talk. I also noticed that Lorrea @ What ‘Cha Readin’?, was doing this as a monthly meme, and Reading Maria does something called “Last Year I Was Reading” where she compares what she’s reading now to what she read a year ago. I also noticed that Susan Osborn over at A Life in Books is doing a series of posts called “Blasts from the Past“. In most instances, they use this to share one of their favorite reads or older reviews. Lorrea is doing it for books she enjoyed over the last decade. I also just noticed that Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies was doing what she calls Flashback Friday, and I hope she’s still doing them! UPDATE: another blogger, Kristin Craves Books just started what she calls #ThrowbookThursday, which I thought would be about books I’d like to throw against the wall but is actually just back list books! There’s also Susan @ A Life In Books, with her Blast from the Past posts, which are reviews of books read and loved, from before she started blogging.
I really like all of these ideas and am essentially stealing it from ALL of them, but with my own twists.
My Twists/Instructions:
- The Chocolate Lady’s #ThrowbackThursday takes place on the Thursday before the first Saturday of every month (i.e., the Thursday before my monthly #6Degrees post).
- My posts will highlight one of my previously published book reviews, and I encourage other participants to do the same.
- If you want to participate but have a new blog that doesn’t have old reviews to highlight, you are encouraged to write a post about anything old that strikes your fancy!
- If you want to tweet or share this post, or someone else’s post, or the reviews being highlighted, please use #ThrowbackThursday!
- Please add the link to your post to the link party, below.
- Please link back to this page on your post.
So… with no further ado, I give you…
The Chocolate Lady’s Throwback Thursday Book Review #55!
My review of this novel started thusly:
“During the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, also known as “Operation Allied Force,” two people “meet” on an internet newsgroup – one is a woman in Yugoslavia, watching the bombing of her homeland by NATO forces. The other is a man in the USA – watching the news from afar. As they argue the different sides of what they see and what they believe is right, they discover a connection that is stronger than their disagreements, and surpasses the physical distance between them.
“First, this novel is almost entirely the fictionalized postings to an internet newsgroup and email correspondence, making it probably the first electronic epistolary novel ever written. While this book came out in 1999, just after the fighting ended, it actually developed in real life, much as it plays out in the book – via the internet. What drew me to this book was that I actually watched most of this story unfold before my own eyes, on the same newsgroup (misc.writing), which the authors were actually frequenting.”
Fascinating, right? I’ll let you read on from there, since I think you already know why I didn’t gave this book a full five stars out of five!
If you like this idea, and want to do your own Throwback Thursday post, please put the link in the comments below.
If you have your own Throwback Thursday or any other type of nostalgia post, you can let me know about your blog post in this link party below. (You can also just post a link to an old review you want us to look at, without making a separate post.) I’ll keep this link party open until my next #ThrowbackThursday post (scheduled for October 3, 2024).
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