No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog
I received this book for review on a whim. I assumed it would give interesting and insightful ideas for blogging - not! While the book gave 100 ideas for blogging, they were for personal lifestyle blogs designed to invoke comment and conversation. That’s fine for some, but I simply didn’t care for the touch-feely personal ideas the author had.
The title of the book was accurate. She right, nobody cares what you had for lunch, but for some reason the author wants you to care what she had for lunch! It’s all about things she’d like to see in the blogs she reads and while I don’t spend hours each day reading blogs, I know I’d quickly get bored of a blog that had such ideas as posting your high school yearbook pics or the contents of your purse.
The meal on the cover was clearly more appetizing than the content of the book!
Pros: Great for insomniacs!
Cons: Yawn…I’m sorry…still groggy from the book. Oh yeah cons…very personal ideas about what a blog should be and lacks universal appeal in the blogosphere. Unless you are interested in learning about the author…pass on this book. Few if any of her 100 ideas would get people to return to your blog.