Hi everyone, I am new to this site but have been an avid review writer on Goodreads since 5ish years. I first started at 16 in 2021 and am 21 now. Back then I would be able to write very long, decent reviews easily but since the past few years I have been struggling to write good reviews or even offer any thoughts of substance. I am not sure why, if anything I have been reading less than before.

Would love suggestions/tips from those who write reviews! Feel free to leave your reviews below as well, i love reading them. :)

Edited to add: Also strangely i don't think this isn't to do with my writing ability in general cuz I have published research and lots of other writing related stuff irl..

so i had a discussion with my brothers today, cus i finished a book (which i have already read this year) and they said that it doesn’t count as a “new book read” since i have already read it, so it shouldn’t count for my year challenge

so my question is in other words, what do you all think? does it count? (cus a book is a book) or doesn’t it? (cus the challenge is to read ‘different’ books)

in addition to that, the same discussion was on the topic of, reading the same book in different languages. same question there to, does it count?

srry for any grammar errors 😔

i recently started trying to take notes and journal about what i’m reading at specific points during the book, rather than just collecting all my thoughts at the end, and realized that it helps me a lot when trying to write a review! also just enhances my reading experience overall, i love Thinking™️. would love to know how everybody here who takes notes while reading does it :] (i might also politely borrow some methods if i like them lmao)

I’ve seen a few fanfiction listed as books - is that something we could do?