A new feature of this blog is Reviews by Ranpo, which will be an extended course in how to write book reviews.
1. If you're going to start up a blog for book reviews - and why shouldn't you? - make sure you choose a memorable name.
Edogawa Ranpo is the Japanese way of saying Edgar Allan Poe. I can't remember how I learned that - I think I was reading some history of the mystery genre book...
Now, by rights I should save this name for a blog that focuses on reviews of mysteries, but I like it so I'm going to use it for this teaching project, in which I'll write reviews of all books that catch my fancy.
It's memorable because it's alliterative: Reviews by Ranpo. Alliterative names are always popular and easy to remember.
And the name under which I'll sign all my posts, Edogawa Ranpo, is "exotic" and also easily memorable.
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