Saturday Review of Books: June 26, 2010
“Lord! when you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”~Christopher Morley If you’re not [...]
Saturday Review of Books: June 19, 2010
“Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”~Mark Danielewsk If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on [...]
Saturday Review of Books: June 12, 2010
“Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.”~Marguerite Yourcenar If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on [...]
Saturday Review of Books: June 5, 2010
“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”~Anne Frank If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it [...]
Saturday Review of Books: May 29, 2010
“An ordinary man can…surround himself with two thousand books…and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.”~Austin Birrell If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a [...]
Saturday Review of Books: May 22, 2010
“The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.”~Nathaniel Hawthorne Unfortunately I have yet to figure out how to turn my love of literature into “solid cash”, nor do I think my literary addiction does much gratify my [...]
Saturday Review of Books: May 15, 2010
“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”~E.P. Whipple If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week of a book you were reading [...]
Saturday Review of Books: May 8, 2010
“All good books have one thing in common. They are truer than if they had really happened.”~Ernest Hemingway If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime during the previous [...]
Saturday Review of Books: May 1, 2010
“Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing.”~Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week of a book you [...]
Saturday Review of Books: April 24, 2010
“Knowing that I loved my books, he furnished me, From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. “~William Shakespeare, The Tempest If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on [...]

