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 family and friends. Oh, well, I’ve still got the “pleasurable toil of writing” –and reading.

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. Across the Page (The Scent of Water)
2. KinderScares (The Book That Eats People)
3. Reading Through Life (Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron)
4. Reading Through Life (Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper)
5. Heather J. (Remarkable Creatures)
6. Heather J. (Old Man’s War)
7. Jennifer (Daniel Boom)
8. Word Lily (Everything Is Broken)
9. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Bringing Up Girls)
10. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Thimble Summer)
11. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Circus Caps for Sale & Over Under in the Garden)
12. 5M4B (A Soft Place to Land)
13. 5M4B (Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott)
14. 5M4B (Handbook of Lightning Strike Survivors)
15. 5M4B (Tales of Young Americans)
16. 5M4B (Love in Time of Homeschooling & GIVEAWAY)
17. 5M4B (The Long Way Home)
18. Jennifer, Snapshot (Tunnels)
19. Barbara H. (The Telling)
20. Barbara H. (Port of Two Brothers)
21. bekahcubed (Boy in the Striped Pajamas)
22. bekahcubed (Religion Saves)
23. bekahcubed (Stuff Christians Like)
24. Collateral Bloggage (The Castle of Llyr)
25. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (More Than Conquerors)
26. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (This Fine Life)
27. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Life, In Spite of Me)
28. Beth (Wildflower Bride)
29. Beth (The Faceless Fiend)
30. Josette (Memories of My Melancholy Whores)
31. FleurFisher (The Book of Fires)
32. FleurFisher (The Child)
33. FleurFisher (Echoes From The Dead)
34. (Nicola) Mrs. Kaputnik’s Pool Hall & Matzo Ball Emporium by Rona Arato
35. (Nicola) Keeper by Kathi Appelt
36. (Nicola) Shake, Rattle & Turn That Noise Down by Mark Alan Stamaty
37. (Nicola) The Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill
38. (Nicola) The Three Firecrackers by Eleanore Frances Lattimore
39. (Nicola) Gold Rush Fever: A Story of the Klondike by Barbara Greenwood
40. ibeeeg @ Polishing Mud Balls (A Storm of Swords)
41. jama’s alphabet soup (Mockingbird)
42. jama’s alphabet soup (Korea Picture Books)
43. SmallWorld Reads (Though Waters Roar by Lynn Austin)
44. Books in the City (Prospect Park West)
45. Ruth (three latest books)
46. S. Krishna (I Can See You)
47. S. Krishna (Just Like Me Only Better)
48. S. Krishna (My Wife’s Affair)
49. S. Krishna (My Fair Lazy)
50. S. Krishna (The Queen’s Governess)
51. S. Krishna (Winging It)
52. S. Krishna (Origins)
53. Florinda/The 3 R’s Blog (Letter to My Daughter)
54. Girl Detective (Howard’s End is on the Landing)
55. Homespun Light (Fablehaven)
56. Homespun Light (Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther)
57. Emily at Simple Kids (Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!)
58. Girl Detective (The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition)
59. SuziQoregon@Whimpulsive (The Handmaid’s Tale)
60. SuziQoregon@Whimpulsive (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
61. Violet @promptings (Sixteen Brides)
62. Mark @ Random Ramblings (Rolling Thunder)
63. JHS (Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister)
64. melydia (Marooned in Fraggle Rock)
65. melydia (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency)
66. melydia (Shakespeare’s Landlord)
67. Between the Stacks (The Survivors Club)
68. Wayside Wanderer (The Pastor’s Wife)

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