The Dilemma on Reviewing Your Friends

First there was this:

You Can't Review Your Friends. You Just Can't over at AAR.

Then Jessica over at RRR posted a link to it and a lively discussion occurred in the comments.

And finally, Vacuous Minx posted A slightly different reviewing dilemma, also with an interesting comment section.

I don't have very much to add to the conversation, however, as a fairly new blogger, there are some interesting and important ethical questions here that I am glad are being asked.  Reading the discussions on each blog, I find my own ideas of the kind of blogger I want to be solidifying.  If you're a book blogger, I think it can be a really helpful group of posts to read.  In fact, if you're a blogger you've probably already asked yourself these questions.  And if you haven't well, it's high time you did.