{"id":109,"date":"2010-04-06T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/2010\/04\/lateiner-family-book-reviews.html"},"modified":"2010-04-06T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:30:23","slug":"lateiner-family-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/04\/lateiner-family-book-reviews.html","title":{"rendered":"How One Family Got Inspired by Books and Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of family&nbsp;movie night? Try a family book blog night.<\/p>\n<p>A family of four in Milburn, New Jersey is connecting together as a family through their shared love&nbsp;for books and blogging.<\/p>\n<p>To inspire their two girls (Lauryn, 11, and Sami, 9) to hold on to their love for reading, Mara and Dave Lateiner created a family book blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/thelateinergangbookreviewspot.blogspot.com\/\">The Lateiner Gang Family Book Review Spot<\/a>,&nbsp;in July 2009.&nbsp; Although Dave is the main contributor, all four family members are active&nbsp;on the blog,&nbsp;writing reviews of books they&#8217;ve read.&nbsp; The family only writes good reviews, preferring to share comments about books they love to generate a positive outlook.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/06\/nyregion\/06bloggers.html?ref=nyregion\">NYTimes.com<\/a>, the Lateiners have reviewed 27 books across a variety of genres such as fiction, fantasy, and cookbooks for different ages.&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course,&nbsp;even the <a href=\"http:\/\/thelateinergangbookreviewspot.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/book-review-twilight-by-stephenie-meyer.html\">&#8220;Twilight&#8221; series by Stephenie Meyer<\/a> has made the blog.&nbsp; Since their launch, the blog has attracted close to 600 followers, some &#8220;as far&nbsp;off as Mauritius, Estonia and Bangladesh.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/06\/nyregion\/06bloggers.html?ref=nyregion\">NYTimes.com<\/a>)&nbsp; Publishers also send review copies to the family for review and have already been invited to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookexpoamerica.com\/en\/Show-Info\/\">BookExpo America<\/a> for this year.<\/p>\n<p>The blog is also interactive, with the Lateiners running contests to give away signed copies of books and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/nook\/\">Nooks, the e-reader created by Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a society where television and movies still reign, take a page out of the Lateiners&#8217;s book blog and rediscover your love for the printed word!<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on the Lateiner family:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/06\/nyregion\/06bloggers.html?ref=nyregion\">NYTimes.com: A Family That Reads and Reviews Together<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thelateinergangbookreviewspot.blogspot.com\/\">The Lateiner Gang Book Review Spot<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of family&nbsp;movie night? 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