Saturday Review of Books: June 19, 2010

“Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”~Mark Danielewsk

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 (The Other Side of the Bridge)
2. Semicolon (Best Intentions)
3. Ruth (four latest books)
4. Framed (Silent in the Sanctuary & Silent on the Moor)
5. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (From Dead to Worse)
6. Suzi Qoregon @ Whimpulsive (A Touch of Dead)
7. Barbara H. (Detour)
8. Barbara H. (Hope and Help For Your Nerves))
9. Reading to Know (The Frog Princess)
10. 5 Minutes for Books (The Iron King)
11. 5 Minutes for Books (Radical)
12. 5 Minutes for Books (The Immortals: Dark Flame)
13. 5M4B (What God Really Thinks About Women)
14. 5M4B (Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon)
15. 5M4B (Lego: A Love Story)
16. Proud Book Nerd (Sing Me to Sleep)
17. Collateral Bloggage (To Hell on a Fast Horse)
18. Beth (84, Charing Cross Road)
19. Beth (Breach of Trust)
20. Carol in Oregon (Five Five-Star Books)
21. Fingers&Prose (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
22. Fingers&Prose (Black Potatoes: The Great Irish Famine)
23. Kinna Reads (Imagine This)
24. Kinna Reads (Tropical Fish)
25. Across the Page (The Joy of the Snow)
26. Across the Page (The Little White Horse)
27. Across the Page (Traveling Mercies)
28. Nicola (Growing Up in Coal Country)
29. Nicola (Grizzwold by Syd Hoff)
30. Nicola (Claim to Fame by Margaret Peterson Haddix)
31. Nicola (Death in the Air byn Shane Peacock)
32. Nicola (Alison Dare: Little Miss Adventures)
33. Hope (a book about Jane Austen)
34. SmallWorld Reads (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet)
35. Framed (The Icing on the Cake)
36. Matched; Ally Condie
37. Nightshade; Andrea Cremer
38. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union; Michael Chabon
39. LL (Living a Year of Kaddish)
40. Jolanthe {Ransome’s Crossing}
41. Jolanthe {Ransomed Hearts}
42. ChristineMM (Teaching As Leadership)
43. MFS @ Mental multivitamin (Some reading notes)
44. MFS @ Mental multivitamin (Tom Sawyer)
45. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (5 Chinese Brothers & Mr. Putter and Tabby)
46. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Ramona the Brave)
47. Library Hospital (Murder is Easy)
48. Library Hospital (The Headmistress)
49. Cindy at Ordo Amoris (Norms and Nobility Cont.)
50. Sam Sattler (Mexico City Noir)
51. Lily (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)
52. Lily (i so don’t do mysteries)
53. Stefanie (On Reading)
54. Jennifer (Hive Detectives)
55. Books in the City (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
56. Books in the City (Brava Valentine)
57. Girl Detective (Dragonflight)
58. Girl Detective (The Magicians)
59. Violet @promptings (Somewhere to Belong)
60. Carina (I.D.: Stuff that Happens to Define Us)
61. Carina (Wuthering Heights)
62. Carina (Purge)
63. Carina (Planet Pregnancy)
64. Carina (Drop-In)
65. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (The Homecoming))
66. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Out of the Spin Cycle)
67. Diary of an Eccentric (Heart of Lies)

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5 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: June 19, 2010

  1. Thanks for hosting this meme! I found you last week at bloggiesta and I’ve been looking forward to participating since then 🙂

  2. Good day, readers! I re-read Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonflight, and found it way more problematic than I remembered. then I read Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, which is about a magic world that’s problematic. The Magicians is very dark and bitter–def. not for everyone.

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