Ten Prompts for Blogging About Literature

Use a quotation

• as a post title (if brief)
• to provoke thought at the start of your post
• set off in the post with the block quote feature (or a larger font or different color)
• or post a set of quotes (not too long or too many) (example 1 | 2)

Tell a story

• about finding that great read
• about a book's influence on you
• about being read to aloud
• about reading as a child or to a child
• about a specific copy of a favorite book

Write a review

• in one sentence / in 140 characters (tweet)
• as a list of adjectives
• copied from your Goodreads
• targeted to a specific audience
• as a parody

Use a picture

• show your own stack of books or your bookshelf
• show yourself curled up with a book
• take a snap of a page from your book (with your notes? example)
• find a picture via Creative Commons related to your book's content
• show a screen shot of your Goodreads library shelves