<p>Over at the <a href="http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/549/skewed-distribution">skewed distribution community chat room</a> it was brought up about whether book reviews would be on topic <a href="http://stats.blogoverflow.com/?blb=1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">for the blog</a>. A few of us in the room agreed it would be fine for the blog, but to get greater community input I ask here: <strong>Does anyone have objections to using the Cross Validated blog as a platform for community member written book reviews?</strong></p>

<p>As long as I have your attention,  I'd like to note that any member of the community is invited to contribute to the blog. I've said in the past that I would like to see more <a href="http://stats.blogoverflow.com/2012/03/increasing-visibility-of-the-cv-blog-and-why-pie-charts-kind-of-suck/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">community members giving input and writing posts</a>, and these can be really any topic related to the community (not just book reviews). IMO we need more fodder for the blog, and I think critical and objective book reviews could be excellent topics of interest to the community.</p>

<p>So does anybody want to write a book review? It also appears <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/7250/matt-krause">Matt Krause</a> is taking recommendations for machine learning books to review if your interested in giving a suggestion (getting ahead of myself and assuming the community will not object to them in the first place!)</p>
