Remember your mini-reviews for the Lower East Side Walking tour online guide book?  And your reviews of Oliver!?  Remember Pauline Frommer’s lesson on what makes a great review?  The use of so many senses? Then there is my review of The Graveyard Book It was a lengthy process, but worth it in the end. Even the author was pleased!  (See here and here.)

So there are all sorts of reviews and I now invite you to write as many as you like on your blog.  But you have to think carefully about what your audience is looking for when you read the review.  For a book, they want to know if it is something they want to read.  For a movie, is it one they would like to see. For a restaurant, is it a place they would like to eat at.  Each is a different type of experience.  I didn’t need to write about smell and taste for my book review, but you certainly did when writing about the restaurants you visited on your LES tour.  Movie reviews are different too as you want to focus on the visual aspect of the experience.

You might want to review:

• books
• movies
• restaurants
• children’s programs
• tourist and vacation places
• play
• stores
• television shows
• hotels
• camps
• music
• pet
• museums and art galleries
• games

And best of all, you can always categorize these as “reviews” because we are going to teach you how to make categories today!