Every book selected to be featured on The Deepening World of Books receives what I call “the personal touch.” Someone, usually me, will check out the book just like one would when visiting a brick and mortar book store or the local library. We just don’t go find a list and pull that list in. We actually research each book to see if it warrants our…and your attention.

Good books deserve “shelf space” and “display space.” Good books are precious. And our aim here is to promote excellent novels, excellent non-fiction, excellent poetry–books readers who hold an interest in a particular genre or subject may want to look at because we think they’re worthy of your time.

That doesn’t mean “bad books” don’t get our attention. Often, if a book is being heavily promoted and we don’t think buying that book is a good idea, then we’ll feature it specifically to warn readers that we don’t think this book is worth the money they’ll spend to buy it.

“The personal touch” works–for readers and for The Deepening–because it effectively achieves our goal of finding and exposing good books.