“The author who benefits you is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been struggling for utterance in you.” ~Oswald Chambers Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. Here’s how it usually works. Find a book review …
Category Archive: Saturday Reviews
Jun 07
Saturday Review of Books: June 8, 2013
“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.” ~Anthony Trollope 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 …
May 31
Saturday Review of Books: June 1, 2013
“You don’t have to read a book to have an opinion. I don’t read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists’ ideas as well as the critics’ thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it’s all just made up by the author.” …
May 24
Saturday Review of Books: May 25, 2013
“When the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerers and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards–their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble–the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, ‘Look, these …
May 18
Saturday Review of Books: May 18, 2013:
“You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable–nay, letter by letter… you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly illiterate, uneducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good …
May 10
Saturday Review of Books: May 11, 2013
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.” ~Samuel Johnson “Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ~Stephen King Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at …
May 03
Saturday Review of Books: May 4, 2013
“I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing, Can I go back to my books now?” ~Lynn Sharon Schwartz 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 …
Apr 26
Saturday Review of Books: April 27, 2013
“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” ~Agatha Christie 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 …
Apr 19
Saturday Review of Books: April 20, 2013
“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.” …
Apr 12
Saturday Review of Books: April 13, 2013
“Remember, it is not hasty reading, but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that …
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