Saturday Review of Books: July 24, 2010

“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music of out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.”~John Keats

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. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Pray for Silence)
2. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Lavender Lies)
3. A Library is a Hospital for the Mind (Cold Comfort Farm)
4. A Library is a Hospital for the Mind (The House At Riverton)
5. Sandra @ Fresh Ink Books (The Elephant Keeper) The Elephant Keeper
6. Chew & Digest Books ~ The Alchemy of Murder
7. Collateral Bloggage (2010: Odyssey Two)
8. Carina @ Reading Through Life (A Little Trouble With the Facts)
9. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Grace)
10. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Life In the Fat Lane)
11. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Dreams From My Father)
12. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Hunger)
13. Beth@Weavings (My Heart’s at Home)
14. Beth@Weavings (Q’s Legacy)
15. Embejo (The Tea Rose)
16. Embejo (The Book Thief)
17. Ariel/Sycorax Pine (Jim the Boy)
18. Lazygal (Vanishing)
19. Lazygal (The Waters Rising)
20. gautami tripathy
21. Lazygal (Plain Kate)
22. gautami tripathy (Out of Shadows)
23. Lazygal (Obabakoak)
24. gautami tripathy (The Memorist)
25. gautami tripathy (The SEa Captains Wife
26. Janet @ Across the Page (The Land of Narnia)
27. Janet @ Across the Page (Hannah Coulter)
28. Janet @ Across the Page (A Book of Narnians)
29. Janet @ Across the Page (The White Witch)
30. Margaret (Discipline, the Glad Surrender)
31. 5M4B (Sand in My Eyes)
32. 5M4B (The Accidental Cowgirl)
33. 5M4B (The Starlet)
34. 5M4B (What is the Gospel)
35. Nicola (Celtic Treasure by Liz Babbs)
36. Nicola (Dark Life by Kat Falls)
37. Nicola (My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira)
38. Nicola (Barn Owl by Phyllis Flower)
39. Nicola (Illustrated Poems for Children)
40. Nicola (Nick of Time by Ted Bell)
41. Word Lily (The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott)
42. Ruth (five latest books)
43. jama’s alphabet soup (Picture books about France)
44. jama’s alphabet soup (Color Bears)
45. Mental multivitamin (On the nightstand)
46. Janet Sketchley
47. Janet Sketchley (Back on Murder)
48. Janet Sketchley (The Hockey Sweater)
49. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Seven Year Switch)
50. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Courting Morrow Little)
51. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Beautiful Malice)
52. melydia (Some Fools, A Turtle and Queen Elizabeth)
53. melydia (The Secret Hour)
54. melydia (Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary)
55. melydia (Year of Wonders)
56. melydia (Leaving Fishers)
57. S. Krishna (Battle of the Labyrinth & The Last Olympian)
58. S. Krishna (29)
59. S. Krishna (Day for Night)
60. S. Krishna (America: The Audiobook)
61. S. Krishna (A Stranger in the Family)
62. S. Krishna (The Little Giant of Aberdeen County)
63. S. Krishna (Changes)
64. Wayside Sacraments (Dewey: the small cat that touched the world by V.Myron)
65. Wayside Sacraments (Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Patillo)
66. Amber Stults (The Girls’ Guide to Rocking)
67. K.B. Kubin (The 39 Apartments of Ludwig van Beethoven)
68. Melissa @ The Betty & Boo Chronicles (Then We Came to the End)
69. Carol in Oregon (How Teaching PIano Made Me a Better Reader)
70. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Evolution of Calpurnia Tate)
71. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Mike Mulligan and His Steamshovel)
72. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Once Upon a Time, The End)
73. Summer (War and Peace)
74. SmallWorld Reads (Picture Bride)
75. SmallWorld Reads (My Name Is Asher Lev)
76. Farrar @ I Capture the Rowhouse (Front and Center)
77. Shredded Cheddar (Locus Focus: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand)
78. Diary of an Eccentric (Glorious)
79. Diary of an Eccentric (The Visibles)

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3 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: July 24, 2010

  1. Way to make my first link incorrectly! Ignore entry 46 with just my name, or please delete it. The book title would have been a helpful thing to include. I’ll try again : (

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