1. Book Criticism and Literary Criticism

In my opinion, book review is a kind of literary criticism, and it is an important part of literary criticism. Literary criticism does not necessarily have to be a book review, but book reviews often fall under literary criticism in a broad sense. Literary criticism is an important part of literary activities, which is based on literary appreciation, guided by literary theory, and is a scientific interpretation activity that analyzes, researches, understands and evaluates writers' works and literary phenomena.

2. Criteria for Literary Criticism

Literature is a language art, so since it is an art, there is no unified evaluation standard. Mr. Li Jianwu, a famous writer, dramatist, and translator in modern times, once said: "What is the standard of criticism? If anything, it's the ego. "Each work has its own inherent personalized style, some of the language style is humorous, some is fresh and elegant, some are ornate, and some are good at using white description. Therefore, when I review books, I don't use my own standards to measure other people's works, and I don't force them to follow my favorite style because I hate a certain style, but respect the independence and diversity of the work, and make comments on the objective and visible merits of the work. In this way, the other party can not only know their own strengths, so as to strengthen their own advantages, form a unique style of their own works, and protect the diversity of their works. We have been educated in the "short board theory" since we were young, but in fact, many times, you can saw off your "long board" and fill in your own shortcomings. The process of changing weaknesses can be difficult, but it is relatively easy to play to the inherent strengths.

Of course, the disadvantages of this are also obvious.

3. Pointing out the problem

The problems I pointed out in my comments were basically hard questions, such as grammar, typos, use of punctuation, misuse of idioms, and other standard problems. As for other very subjective questions such as the pace of the work, the style of the work, and whether it is attractive, I may bring it up if I like it, but if I don't like it, it's just that I don't like it, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the work itself. I don't know what the author of each work has designed for each plot, what he wants to express, and what the style represents, so I won't take it out as a disadvantage just because I don't like it. Literary criticism is an art, not black and white.