Reviews: Citation Information

An examination of the site hits for this blog suggests to me that quite a few people have been using these reviews for research and reference purposes. This doesn’t bother me at all — it’s why I’m posting these reviews here, honestly. But in the interests of helping out fellow writers and researchers, I’ve separate page on my blog to provide citation information in several different formats.

It’s not easy to cite Web pages, but I have a fair idea of the kind of information that ought to be included to give full and proper credit. I don’t know if I will go so far as to link every single review post to that citation page, but I’m tempted to do so if it will help researchers determine appropriate citation methods (and prevent even a few cases of plagiarism).

Other useful free resources for citation information include Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab. Please do visit my citation page if you’re at all curious about how to cite individual reviews in my blog, and feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions or suggestions for citation information at To Bed With A Trollope.

ADMIN: A Bit of Spring Cleaning

I’ve been doing some tweaking of site pages lately, and in the process I inadvertently stripped the About This Site and Current Reading List pages out of the sidebar. They’ve been restored, and a new page has been added — Research Notes, which will feature bits and pieces of files that I am currently using for my research projects. Most of these files will be password-protected, but if you leave a comment and ask for the password I’ll generally be more than willing to provide it by e-mail.

I haven’t done much in the way of updating lately, but now that a few of my current projects are starting to pick up speed, I ought to have a few more things to post about very soon. Many thanks to those who’ve come across my blog and started reading — I intend to build up momentum again in the very near future!

ADMIN: Start of November

So today begins a new month, and with it comes a shift in my review postings.

For a little more than two months now, I’ve been reposting reviews I wrote to a different blog quite a while back. Now that I’ve cleared out a good portion of those reviews, I am going to cut back on the postings — ideally to two or three per week, probably on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. It’ll give me a chance to go back and rework some of my older, less-polished reviews and type up some new ones…and possibly also add some new and interesting content to my blog as well.

Many thanks for reading thus far!

Proper Introduction

Greetings, all! Welcome to ‘To Bed With a Trollope’, a blog dedicated primarily to book reviews and recommendations.

To forestall any questions about my choice of blog name, I should mention that it comes from a quip supposedly made by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. When a journalist asked him how he preferred to relax in his spare time, he mentioned that he liked to ‘go to bed with a Trollope’ — that is, a novel by the writer Anthony Trollope, known for his novels on the complexities of society and politics in Victorian Britain. (I’ve gone to bed with a few Trollopes myself, and if you like that sort of thing then they’re quite satisfying.)

I intend to start by going back through a series of book reviews I’ve been writing for the better part of three years now, and once I’ve caught up to where I happen to be on my Massive Pile of Books to Read, I’ll start posting my current reading material as well. Comments are of course appreciated — I’m quite interested to hear what other people might have to say about my reviews.

- SG

Introduction.

Content to follow, once I begin to copy and upload it.