“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 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.
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This is fantastic! I can’t believe I haven’t seen it before.
I hadn’t seen it either, Lydia – jut proves how big the book blogosphere can be! This is a great idea and I plan on returning weekly!
Hey, sister! Thanks for allowing us a chance to share our reviews every week. I love to read about what everyone else is reading.
I’m really enjoying all the reviews. Thanks for doing this! 🙂
Great idea!
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Good day, readers! I’ve been gone the past couple weekends, so am catching up on my reviews, here.
Also, my summer book project is to read Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle trilogy, and info on that is here if anyone is brave/foolhardy enough to join me!
http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3357
Thanks for letting me know about this – it will be great to see all of these reviews!
Thanks for inviting me to do this! I will put it on my calendar for Saturdays. I forgot to put the title of my book in parenthesis this time, but will know to do that for next time. 🙂
Thanks for inviting me to do this. I am sorry that I forgot to include the title of the book with my name.
Sherry –
Thanks for stopping by and commenting on my review. I just added Dirty Little Angels by Chris Tusa. It was a very intriguing Southern Gothic flavored short novel.
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