Book report will usually take 200-250 words. Book reviews will range from 200 words if it's a simple book to 1000+ words if it's a piece of scholarly literature that needs thorough analysis and evaluation. STRUCTURE. The structure of two papers resemble one another: first off, you would need to introduce the author, the book, state when and who the book was published by. You would need to mention characters, mention the plot, genre, and major themes.
MESSAGE. If you write a book report, you would need to simply sum up the book plot, characters, state major themes and say a few words about the major characters. If you are writing a book summary, the main idea is to say whether or not you like the book, whether or not you would recommend this book to other readers and why.
Summary is simple, sweet, short and gets the message across with very few words. In a summary you tell what happened in the book but not too much, you still want to keep the reader's attention.
Book Reviews explain the entire thing from beginning to end.
