“The reviewer’s duty is to the reader first." From THE SLIPPERY ART OF BOOK REVIEWING THE SLIPPERY ART OF BOOK REVIEWING By Mayra Calvani and Anne K. Edwards Twilight Times Books I have been a book reviewer for 15+ years. I have reviewed books for Publisher’s Weekly , the Author’s Guild, Dorchester Publishing and Somos Padres/We are Parents (a now defunct local Queens bilingual newspaper). I still review for Romantic Times and now The Latina Book Club. When I started reviewing, all I had was a love of reading, a need to share my opinion of books and a hot pen. There were no reference guides like THE SLIPPERY ART OF BOOK REVIEWING. Often, the editor would just hand me an old review and ask me to duplicate the format. After a few years, a couple of the publications settled on a preferred style and I got a notice asking me to change to the new format. I learned by trial and error. Book reviewers today can be better prep...