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 were reading or a book you’ve read. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can just write your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Then on 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. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

1. Semicolon (Willow)
2. Semicolon (Little Blog on the Prairie)
3. Reading to Know (Offworld)
4. Reading to Know (Moses: A Man of Selfless Dedication)
5. 5 Minutes for Books (Hear No Evil)
6. 5 Minutes for Books (Create Your Own Books)
7. 5 Minutes for Books (The Familiar Stranger)
8. 5M4B (Toxic Friends)
9. 5M4B (The Blue Orchard)
10. 5M4B (The Book of Awesome)
11. Laura (The Gentle Art of Quiltmaking)
12. Barbara H. (A Touch of Grace)
13. SuziQoregon (The Sinner)
14. Florinda/The 3 R’s Blog (This One is Mine)
15. Florinda/The 3 R’s Blog (The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott)
16. Framed (Whisper to the Blood)
17. Framed (The Oak Leaves)
18. Collateral Bloggage (Slaughterhouse-five)
19. Collateral Bloggage (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
20. Josette (The Catcher in the Rye)
21. Teachergirl (Math Literature part 1)
22. Teachergirl (Math Literature part 2)
23. Beth (A Distant Melody)
24. Beth (Songbird Under a German Moon)
25. Beth (Swinging on a Starr)
26. FleurFisher (Haweswater)
27. FleurFisher (Sophy Cassmajor)
28. FleurFisher (Roseanna)
29. FleurFisher (Flowers for Mrs Harris)
30. gautami tripathy (Greater Love)
31. gautami tripathy (Open Country)
32. gautami tripathy (The Girl Who Played With Fire)
33. gautami tripathy (The Language of Secrets)
34. Janet @ Across the Page (The Mother Daughter Book Club)
35. Janet (The Singing Hill)
36. Dana(The Spring Cleaning)
37. Enbrethiliel @ Shredded Cheddar (Father’s Arcane Daughter by E.L. Konigsburg)
38. Hope (Save the Males)
39. MFS @ Mental multivitamin (As You Like It)
40. MFS @ Mental multivitamin (On the nightstand)
41. MFS @ Mental multivitamin (15/15/15 challenge)
42. Lazygal (Hastur Lord)
43. Lazygal (Sisters Red)
44. Lazygal (Episodes)
45. SmallWorld Reads (Queen of the Big Time)
46. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (cat books)
47. Cindy @Ordo Amoris (Fahrenheit 451)
48. Cindy @Ordo Amoris (ongoing Norms and Nobility Discussion)
49. Word Lily (The Sweet By and By)
50. Brimful Bookshelves (Cutting for Stone)
51. Amber Stults (I Has a Hotdog!)
52. S. Krishna (Self Storage)
53. S. Krishna (Secrets of Eden)
54. S. Krishna (Savor the Moment)
55. S. Krishna (Claude and Camille)
56. S. Krishna (Sweet Dates In Basra)
57. Girl Detective (7 different books)
58. S. Krishna (The Postmistress)
59. S. Krishna (Angels of Destruction)
60. Inquirer (7 new books)
61. Wayside Wanderer (Cold Comfort Farm)
62. Leah@ Good Reads (Wonders Never Cease)
63. Leah@ Good Reads (Little Britches)
64. Leah@ Good Reads (A Place to Call Home)
65. LL (the Lightening Theif)
66. LL (Zero G)
67. LL (The 7 Faith Tribes)
68. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict (After The Moment)
69. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict (Within the Hollow Crown)
70. Charlie (Twilight)
71. 5M4B (This is Not Story You Think it Is)
72. Mark @ Random Ramblings (3 comedic mysteries)
73. Marie De Vries (Live Life on Purpose)
74. SavvyVerse&Wit (Full Moon Boat)
75. SavvyVerse&Wit (Song of Napalm)
76. Darla D (The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden)
77. Darla D (The Game of Sunken Places)
78. Darla D (The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch)
79. Ruth (four latest books)
80. SmallWorld Reads (Jane Eyre)
81. JHS (Keeping Faith)
82. Gladsome Lights (Chicken Boy)
83. A Library is a Hospital for the Mind (Emma)
84. Books in the City (Very Valentine)
85. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (The Bride Collector)
86. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (How Do You Tuck In a Superhero?)
87. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (No Greater Love)
88. Diary of an Eccentric (College in a Nutskull)
89. Diary of an Eccentric (Get Lucky)
90. Diary of an Eccentric (Becoming Alice)
91. Lazygal (Lord Sunday)
92. Lazygal (The Man in the Picture)
93. Lazygal (Thirteen Days to Midnight)
94. Lazygal (Guardian of the Dead)
95. Lazygal (The Cruellest Month)
96. Lazygal (Guardian of the Gate)

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