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 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. MFS @ Mental multivitamin (Reading life review: May)
2. Hope (Silence by Shusaku Endo)
3. Violet @promptings (The Ark)
4. gautami tripathy (Snowbound)
5. gautami tripathy (The Queeen of Palmyra)
6. gautami tripathy (In Harm’s Way)
7. gautami tripathy (Never Let You Go)
8. Reading to Know (Squiggles and Holes)
9. Reading to Know (Purity: A Godly Woman’s Adornment)
10. 5 Minutes for Books (Secret Daughter)
11. 5 Minutes for Books (Innocent)
12. 5M4B (You Can Still Wear Cute Shoes)
13. 5M4B (You’re Not the Boss of Me)
14. 5M4B (Radical Homemakers)
15. 5M4B (This Fine Life)
16. Florinda/The 3 R’s Blog (The Heart is Not a Size)
17. JHS (Think for Yourself)
18. toothybooks (bitter is the new black)
19. toothybooks (dead connection)
20. Beth (Word Gets Around)
21. Beth (Parenting in the Pew)
22. Beth (Age of Opportunity)
23. Beth (Beguiled)
24. Across the Page (The Bird in the Tree)
25. Benjie (Mississippi Vivian)
26. DebD (Mrs. Mike)
27. Cindy @ Ordo Amoris (Acedia and Me)
28. K. B. Kubin (Song of Middle C)
29. Ruth (three latest books)
30. Shonda (Heart of the Matter)
31. Shonda (Get Lucky)
32. Jennifer (Crunch)
33. Lazygal (Scumble)
34. Lazygal (Julie and Julia)
35. Lazygal (Theodore Boone)
36. Lazygal (Mistress of the Monarchy)
37. Lazygal (Tenth Grade Bleeds)
38. Lazygal (Wicked Good Year)
39. Lazygal (Espedair Street)
40. Nicola (MAOH: Juvenile Remix Vol. 1)
41. Nicola (The Remnant by Stephen Baldwin)
42. Nicola (Captivity by Deborah Noyes)
43. Nicola (Fables: The Dark Ages)
44. Nicola (Impatient with Desire by Gabrielle Burton)
45. Word Lily (Peace Like a River)
46. Word Lily (Newspaper Blackout)
47. Julie D. (The “R” Father)
48. Julie D. (Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand)
49. Sixteen Brides by Stephanie Whitson
50. Kara @ Home W/Purpose (Let Go by Sheila Walsh)
51. Kara @ Home W/Purpose (Jesus Manifesto by Sweet & Viola)
52. S. Krishna (Waiting for Columbus)
53. S. Krishna (Spooky Little Girl)
54. S. Krishna (The One That I Want)
55. S. Krishna (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest)
56. S. Krishna (The Lies We Told)
57. S. Krishna (The Adoration of Jenna Fox)
58. S. Krishna (For Keeps)
59. Amber Stults (Kitty’s House of Horrors)
60. Amber Stults (The Bag of Bones)
61. Page Turner/Heather (A Nest for Celeste)
62. Niki (MARTIN’S GHOST)
63. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Secret Garden)
64. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Never Let Me Go)
65. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Story of the Trapp Family Singers)
66. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Shoot to Thrill)
67. Benjie (Tilly)
68. RMrs. Q: Book Addict (Sweetness in the Belly)
69. Mrs. Q: Book Addict (The Queen of Palmyra)
70. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Faith Club)
71. Carina (Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov’s Little Girl…)
72. Enbrethiliel @ Shredded Cheddar (Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson)
73. kelly Bookend Diaries

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6 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: June 5, 2010

  1. I regret that I have no review to link this week. And I only managed one post. Blogging skilz…eroding…

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