What are your favorite websites, blogs, and/or resources for reviews?

Generally speaking, my first choice for reviews is School Library Journal (SLJ). This is for a couple of reasons. First of all, we subscribe to the journal so it nicely arrives in my mailbox each month. How easy is that?! Secondly, I like using SLJ because its reviews are readily available to YOU, our readers, on our website. (Since we switched over to the Encore catalog, Booklist reviews are also often included.) There are a couple of ways that you can get to these reviews from our catalog.

Let's use the book "Calvin: A Novel" by Martinne Leavitt as an example.

The first way is by clicking on the book jacket image in Search Results.  This will bring you to a list of Information Available. As you see, you can read a summary, author notes, reviews, or download a cover image.

The second way is by scrolling down to the bottom of the Search Results.  Just below the list of libraries are Extras, which include Reviews, Biography, and Annotations.

While you are way down here at the bottom of the page, you will see that there is a section entitled You Might Also Like, which includes incredibly enough other titles and authors you might also like.

Another resource that I simply LOVE is NoveList Plus, which is found on our homepage. If you access this from home, you have to enter a valid Burlington Public Library library card number. However, anyone can use the database on any of our public computers here in the library. This gem of a database has EVERYTHING you could want and more about authors, series, and read-alikes. What I love most about it is that all titles have a link back to our catalog. I could talk about this database for hours. But I won't.

Another favorite website of mine is teenreads, just because I like it.

So, I ask, what are your favorite websites, blogs, and/or resources for reviews?