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 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. Wayside Wanderer (Suite Francaise)
2. Semicolon (To Come and Go LIke Magic)
3. Semicolon (Black Narcissus)
4. Page Turner/Heather (Middlemarch)
5. Laura (Spoken from the Heart)
6. Laura (In This House of Brede)
7. Laura (Dr. Wortle’s School)
8. Florinda/The 3 R’s Blog (The Danish Girl)
9. Semicolon (Trustee from the Toolroom)
10. Semicolon (The Last Summer of the Death Warriors)
11. SuziQoregon (Messenger of Truth)
12. Carol in Oregon (Words to God’s Music)
13. bekahcubed (703: How I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life)
14. Collateral Bloggage (For All the Tea in China)
15. Carina (Spanking Shakespeare)
16. Carina (Locavore)
17. Carina (Avril Lavigne’s Make 5 Wishes, volume 1)
18. Reading to Know (Every Man/Woman’s Marriage)
19. Reading to Know (Skinny is Overrated)
20. Reading to Know (Ben & Me/Mr. Revere & I)
21. Reading to Know (The Ladd Family Adventures)
22. 5M4B (The Council of Dads)
23. Beth (An Irish Country Girl)
24. 5M4B (This Body of Death)
25. 5M4B (Good to a Fault)
26. 5M4B (My Quotable Kid)
27. 5M4B (Thrifty: Living the Frugal Life with Style)
28. bekahcubed (Convergence: Spiritual Journeys of a Charismatic Calvinist)
29. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (It Had To Be You)
30. Mark (9th Judgment)
31. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Indivisible)
32. Hope (They Loved to Laugh)
33. Across the Page (“Window Poems” by Wendell Berry)
34. Across the Page (The Seven Sisters)
35. SFP (In the Year of Jubilee)
36. Charlie (Sense And Sensibility)
37. Nicola (White Cat by Holly Black)
38. Nicola (Zig & Wikki in Something Ate My Homework)
39. Nicola (Meridian by Amber Kizer)
40. Nicola (Die Hard: Year One, Vol. 1)
41. Nicola (Pearl of China by Anchee Min)
42. Megan (Life As We Knew It)
43. SmallWorld Reads (Maniac Magee–YA)
44. SmallWorld Reads (Season for Second Chances)
45. KinderScares (The Monsterologist)
46. Ruth (A Wedding in December and How to Train your Dragon)
47. Diary of an Eccentric (Let the Great World Spin)
48. Diary of an Eccentric (Letter to My Daughter)
49. Diary of an Eccentric (Bundle of Trouble)
50. Diary of an Eccentric (On Folly Beach)
51. Sherrie(Worst Case)
52. Jennifer (Kat & Mouse)
53. jama (what’s new cupcake giveaway)
54. S. Krishna (Murder on Nob Hill)
55. S. Krishna (Restoring Harmony)
56. S. Krishna (Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand)
57. S. Krishna (On Folly Beach)
58. S. Krishna (The Singer’s Gun)
59. Girl Detective (Await Your Reply)
60. S. Krishna (The Dead-Tossed Waves)
61. Girl Detective (Man in the Wooden Hat)
62. S. Krishna (Mortal Friends)
63. LL (Little Bee)
64. SavvyVerse&Wit (Fool)
65. SavvyVerse&Wit (College in a Nutskull)
66. SavvyVerse&Wit (On Folly Beach)
67. JHS (Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas)
68. A Library is a Hospital for the Mind (The Great Gatsby)
69. Upsidedown B (A Homemade Life)
70. Books in the City (Season of Second Chances)
71. Proud Book Nerd (Indivisible)
72. Books in the City (Brooklyn by Colm Toibin)
73. Marg – The food of love
74. Marg – The House on Tradd Street
75. Marg – To Defy a King

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3 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: May 15, 2010

  1. Hi Sherry,

    Could you delete link 33? I’m not sure what I hit, but Mr Linky posted what was already in the data fields — which happened to be my Poetry Friday post from yesterday. Sorry about that!

  2. It’s my first Saturday Review of Books! What a great thing you have going here!

    And as if my to-read piles aren’t scary enough already, it looks like there are a ton of interesting things to check out…

    Shelagh @ KinderScares

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