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Book Lists 2020

I used to have a feature here on Saturdays called the Saturday Review of Books. And every year around the end of the year, I dedicated that Saturday Review to lists of books for the old year or for the new year or for anything in between: Favorite Books of This Year or What I’m Reading Next Year or The Best Books of All Time According to Blogger #1 or really any book list that came out on a blog somewhere at the end of the year. So, I’ve been collecting these lists, and now I’ll post a few each day. If I don’t already have yours linked here, please leave a comment and a link. I love book lists, and I like sharing them with you all.

Let the listing begin!

My Favorite Books of 2020 by Russell Moore. Most of Mr. Moore’s list is non-fiction of the theological and sociological persuasion, and for the most part I’m not a fan of those kinds of books. But I am looking forward to reading Marilynne Robinson’s Jack, the newest in her Gilead set of stories.

The 2020 For the Church Book Awards by Ronni Kurtz. “[W]e are pleased to present our readers with a few books that stuck out as exceptional from this past year. In this, our fourth annual For the Church book awards, each member of the editorial team chose two books—a winner and a runner-up—to honor and to recommend to you.” Of the book on this award list, I am most interested in Alan Jacobs’ Breaking Bread With the Dead, about reading and learning from old books.

Cody Glen Barnhardt: 10 Favorite Books I Read in 2020. Mr. Barnhardt is not the first to suggest Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sufferers and Sinners by Dane Ortlund. My pastor also suggested it earlier this year, and I’ve seen it on other lists. Maybe someone is trying to tell me something?

Hungry for Good Books?: The Annual List 2020 Edition. Trina Hayes has her entire list of 100 or more books read during this year of the plague. And I spotted a few possibilities there: Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles, The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay, The Women of Copper County by Mary Doria Russell, Eliza Hamilton: the Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton by Tilar Mazzeo. I could probably find more, but my TBR list is already way too long.

Dewey’s Treehouse: 25 Top Books I Want to Read in 2021. “Enough with long lists. If I get these done, I’ll be happy.” ~Mama Squirrel. OK, it’s a great idea in theory, but MY list is already miles long. And I can’t resist the this (long) title on the Treehouse short list: Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell.

Gift Books for Grown-ups by Betsy at Redeemed Reader. Several of these are already on my own TBR list, and several others I’ve already read and enjoyed. I daresay any of them would make a lovely gift—for someone else or for yourself. (And I still added more books to the TBR list from this one.)

I’ll link to a few more book lists tomorrow, maybe yours if you leave me a comment?

Saturday Review of Books: October 20, 2018

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.” ~Lemony Snicket

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Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. Here’s how it usually works. Find a book review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can link to your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Then on Friday night/Saturday, you post a link here at Semicolon in Mr. Linky to the specific post where you’ve written your book review. Don’t link to your main blog page because this kind of link makes it hard to find the book review, especially when people drop in later after you’ve added new content to your blog. In parentheses after your name, add the title of the book you’re reviewing. This addition will help people to find the reviews they’re most interested in reading.

After linking to your own reviews, you can spend as long as you want reading the reviews of other bloggers for the week and adding to your wishlist of books to read.

Saturday Review of Books Participants

1. Michele Morin–(Even Better than Eden by Nancy Guthrie)
2. Barbara H. (My Hands Came Away Red)
3. Barbara H. (The Lost Castle)
4. Barbara H. (Borders of the Heart)
5. Hope (100 Bible Verses Everyone Should Learn by Heart)
6. Glynn (Blue Murder)
7. Glynn (Once We Were Strangers)
8. Glynn (A Staged Murder)
9. Beckie@ByTheBook (Lady of A Thousand Treasures)
10. Beckie@ByTheBook (Crime And Poetry)
11. Beckie@ByTheBook (Surrounded by Darkness)

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Saturday Review of Books: October 13, 2018

“Farther than arrows, higher than wings fly poet’s song and prophet’s words.” ~Inscription on the Brooklyn Public Library

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Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. Here’s how it usually works. Find a book review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can link to your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Then on Friday night/Saturday, you post a link here at Semicolon in Mr. Linky to the specific post where you’ve written your book review. Don’t link to your main blog page because this kind of link makes it hard to find the book review, especially when people drop in later after you’ve added new content to your blog. In parentheses after your name, add the title of the book you’re reviewing. This addition will help people to find the reviews they’re most interested in reading.

After linking to your own reviews, you can spend as long as you want reading the reviews of other bloggers for the week and adding to your wishlist of books to read.

Saturday Review of Books Participants

1. Barbara H. (Women of the Word)
2. Glynn (The Ashes of London)
3. Glynn (Appalachian Serenade)
4. Glynn (The Day of the Lie)
5. Michele Morin–(Bring Me a Vision by Pam Ecrement)
6. Carol @journey & destination (Catriona by R.L. Stevenson)
7. Hope (On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder)
8. Carole (Delayed Justice)
9. Carole (Fallen Leaves)
10. Carole (A Tale of Two Hearts)
11. Beckie@ByTheBook (A Tale of Two Hearts)
12. Beckie@ByTheBook (Delayed Justice)
13. Beckei@ByTheBook ( Burden of Proof)

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Saturday Review of Books: August 25, 2018

“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.” ~~Vincent Van Gogh

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Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. Here’s how it usually works. Find a book review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can link to your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Then on Friday night/Saturday, you post a link here at Semicolon in Mr. Linky to the specific post where you’ve written your book review. Don’t link to your main blog page because this kind of link makes it hard to find the book review, especially when people drop in later after you’ve added new content to your blog. In parentheses after your name, add the title of the book you’re reviewing. This addition will help people to find the reviews they’re most interested in reading.

After linking to your own reviews, you can spend as long as you want reading the reviews of other bloggers for the week and adding to your wishlist of books to read.

Saturday Review of Books Participants

1. Glynn (Hear the Echo)
2. Glynn (Murder in the Cathedral)
3. Glynn (What Can We Know About God?)
4. Glynn (Fire in the Thatch)
5. Sick Heart River by John Buchan
6. Foxes and Fairy Tales (Not Your Villian)
7. Foxes and Fairy Tales (The Hero’s Guide…)
8. Foxes and Fairy Tales (Spinning Silver/)
9. Michele – Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton, Chapter 8
10. Michele – The Child from the Sea by Elizabeth Goudge
11. Michele – In His Image by Jen Wilkin
12. Barbara H. (Full Assurance)
13. Barbara H. (Reshaping It All)
14. Barbara H. (Before We Were Yours)
15. Soulful Lemonade (Falling for You/True to You by Becky Wade)
16. Becky (Rocket Men)
17. Becky (The Hazel Wood)
18. Barbara H. (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Long-Lost Home)
19. Susanne@LivingToTell (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry)
20. Reading World (1876)
21. Susanne@LivingToTell (The Lost Art of Mixing )
22. Beckie@ByTheBook (The House at Saltwater Point)
23. Beckie@ByTheBook (Darkwater Secrets)
24. Ari @ Books. Libraries. Also, cats.
25. Elizabeth @ Silver’s Reviews (SOLD ON A MONDAY)
26. Elizabeth @ Silver’s Reviews (THE DAISY CHILDREN)

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Saturday Review of Books: August 11, 2018

“Better than flowers are they, these books of mine! For what are the seasons to them? Neither can the drought of summer nor the asperity of winter wither or change them. At all times and under all circumstances they are the same—radiant, fragrant, hopeful, helpful! There is no charm which they do not possess, no beauty that is not theirs.” ~~Eugene Field

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Saturday Review of Books: July 7, 2018

“I sometimes wish that lavish spending could bring me happiness, but I’ve found that the one thing that brings me the most joy is something that costs me the least amount of money — reading books.” ~~Adam Ehrenreich

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Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. Here’s how it usually works. Find a book review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can link to your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Then on Friday night/Saturday, you post a link here at Semicolon in Mr. Linky to the specific post where you’ve written your book review. Don’t link to your main blog page because this kind of link makes it hard to find the book review, especially when people drop in later after you’ve added new content to your blog. In parentheses after your name, add the title of the book you’re reviewing. This addition will help people to find the reviews they’re most interested in reading.

After linking to your own reviews, you can spend as long as you want reading the reviews of other bloggers for the week and adding to your wishlist of books to read.

1. Barbara H. (Villette)
2. Carol (Kristin Lavransdatter)
3. Hope (The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis)
4. Hope (Friends at Thrush Green by Miss Read)
5. Hope (The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis)
6. Hope (Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge)
7. Hope (Innocent Blood by P.D. James)
8. Hope (The One Year Book of Poetry)
9. Michele (Born to Wander by Michelle Van Loon)
10. Michele (Raising World Changers in a Changing World by Kristen Welch)
11. Michele (A Praying Life by Paul Miller)
12. Michele (Birthing Hope by Rachel Marie Stone)
13. Glynn ( War Horse)
14. Glynn (For the Union Dead: Poems)
15. Glynn (Sonship)
16. Glynn (Twist of Faith)
17. Lisa of Hopewell’s Library of Life (The Ocean Liner)
18. Becky (Tea Dragon Society)
19. Becky (Barracoon)
20. Beckie@ByTheBook (Brink of Death)
21. Beckie@ByTheBook (The Linen God)
22. Brenda (Del Toro Moon)
23. Elizabeth (THE DYING OF THE LIGHT)
24. Elizabeth (THE BANKER’S WIFE)
25. Michele (Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton, Chapter 7)
26. Michele (Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership by Ruth Haley Barton)
27. Jennifer Boyd (The Cruel Prince)
28. Jennifer Boyd (Caravel)
29. Jennifer Boyd (The Darkest Minds)
30. Jennifer Boyd (The Immortal Gene)
31. Jennifer Boyd (Chelela)
32. Jennifer Boyd (Lipstick Voodoo)
33. Tammy @ Murder, Mystery & Mayhem Book Reviews
34. Tammy @ Murder, Mystery & Mayhem Book Reviews
35. Tammy @ Murder, Mystery & Mayhem Book Reviews
36. Tammy @ Murder, Mystery & Mayhem Book Reviews
37. Cathy@Thoughts on Books (Prayer: A Holy Occupation)

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Saturday Review of Books: June 30, 2018

“To desire to have many books, and never use them, is like a child that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping.” ~~Henry Peacham

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Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. Here’s how it usually works. Find a book review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can link to your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Then on Friday night/Saturday, you post a link here at Semicolon in Mr. Linky to the specific post where you’ve written your book review. Don’t link to your main blog page because this kind of link makes it hard to find the book review, especially when people drop in later after you’ve added new content to your blog. In parentheses after your name, add the title of the book you’re reviewing. This addition will help people to find the reviews they’re most interested in reading.

After linking to your own reviews, you can spend as long as you want reading the reviews of other bloggers for the week and adding to your wishlist of books to read.

1. Barbara H. (A Small Book About a Big Problem)
2. Barbara H. (Invincible Louisa)
3. Barbara H. (Heaven Without Her)
4. Barbara H. (The Highly Sensitive Person)
5. Barbara H. (Gospel Meditations for Mothers)
6. Brenda (The Turnkey of Highgate Cemetery)
7. Glynn (The Red House)
8. Glynn (Are People Basically Good?)
9. Glynn (A Whiff of Cyanide)
10. Susanne@LivingToTell (Where Hope Begins)
11. Susanne@LivingToTell (Summer of Joy)
12. Beckie@ByTheBook (The Love Letter)
13. Beckie@ByTheBook (Just Let Go)
14. Beckie@ByTheBook (A Rebel Heart)
15. Elizabeth (THE TASTE OF AIR)
16. Elizabeth (BEFORE AND AGAIN)
17. Elizabeth (THREE DAYS MISSING)

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Saturday Review of Books: May 26, 2018

“A good book has no ending.” ~~RD Cunning

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Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. Here’s how it usually works. Find a book review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can link to your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Then on Friday night/Saturday, you post a link here at Semicolon in Mr. Linky to the specific post where you’ve written your book review. Don’t link to your main blog page because this kind of link makes it hard to find the book review, especially when people drop in later after you’ve added new content to your blog. In parentheses after your name, add the title of the book you’re reviewing. This addition will help people to find the reviews they’re most interested in reading.

After linking to your own reviews, you can spend as long as you want reading the reviews of other bloggers for the week and adding to your wishlist of books to read.

Saturday Review of Books: April 21, 2018

“Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me/From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.” ~~William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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The Bard was born around this date (baptized, April 26th) in April, 1564, and he died April 23, 1616. And Will Shakespeare, like Prospero, I’m sure, did love his books.