book review

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noun

a critical description, evaluation, or analysis of a book, especially one published in a newspaper or magazine.

a section or page of a newspaper or magazine devoted to such material.

Origin of book review

First recorded in 1860–65

OTHER WORDS FROM book review

book reviewer, nounbook reviewing, noun

Words nearby book review

book out, bookpaper, bookplate, bookrack, bookrest, book review, book scorpion, bookseller, book share, bookshelf, book society

Example sentences from the Web for book review

All things being relative, the Times is still a book-review bonanza.
Four Overlooked Books of 2009|Taylor Antrim|May 12, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The comparison of a review to a portrait fixes attention on one essential quality of a book-review.
The Art of Letters|Robert Lynd
It is a result, I believe, of a wrong conception of what a book-review should be.
The Art of Letters|Robert Lynd
There was a book-review in it a few days ago that I—I liked very much.'
When a Man's Single|J. M. Barrie

Whether that it so or not, the book-review is not, as a rule, the place for abstract argument.
The Art of Letters|Robert Lynd
He had sold only one book-review, and he was using Corydon's money again.
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair