Saturday Review of Books: July 31, 2010

“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations–something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.”~Katharine Paterson, U.S. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

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. gautami tripathy (The Wild Irish Sea)
2. gautami tripathy (Mr. Peanut)
3. gautami tripathy (The Tricking of Freya)
4. gautami tripathy (Last Last Chance)
5. Across the Page (The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains)
6. Across the Page (“The Aunt and Amabel”)
7. Barbara H. (Chosen Ones, Book 1 of The Aedyn Chronicles)
8. Mental multivitamin (Reading life review: July)
9. Jennifer (Summer storytimes)
10. Reading to Know (The World According to Narnia)
11. Reading to Know (Nature Explorer)
12. Florinda/The 3 R’s Blog (Every Last One)
13. Florinda/The 3 R’s Blog (Bird in Hand)
14. Suzi Qoregon @ Whimpulsive (Body Double)
15. bekahcubed (Inside “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”)
16. bekahcubed (Are Miraculous Gifts for Today?)
17. bekahcubed (Letter to a Christian Nation)
18. bekahcubed (Pretty Little. Potholder)
19. Hope (The Vicarage Family by Streatfeild)
20. Collateral Bloggage (The Battle of the Labyrinth)
21. Collateral Bloggage (Did Somebody Step on a Duck?)
22. DHM, Notes from the Omnivore’s Dilemma
23. DHM, Not Under the Law by Grace Livingston Hill
24. DHM, The Garden, by Sarah Stewart
25. gautami tripathy (Saving CeeCee Honeycutt)
26. Brandon (A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines)
27. Brandon (World Religions in America)
28. Lazygal (The Good Daughters)
29. Lazygal (City of Tranquil Light)
30. Lazygal (Solitary)
31. Lazygal (The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall)
32. Lazygal (The Body in the Tower)
33. Lazygal (Ninth Ward)
34. Lazygal (Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus)
35. Lazygal (Sources of Light)
36. Lazygal (Out of Sight, Out of Mind)
37. Lazygal (Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl)
38. melydia (The Martian Chronicles)
39. Word Lily (The Prince of Mist)
40. Janet Sketchley (On Thin Ice by Linda Hall)
41. S. Krishna (The Lost Chalice)
42. S. Krishna (The House on Oyster Creek)
43. S. Krishna (My Name Is Memory)
44. S. Krishna (The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors)
45. S. Krishna (Linger)
46. S. Krishna (The Messenger of Athens)
47. S. Krishna (The Woman Who Fell From The Sky)
48. SmallWorld Reads (Elizabeth and Her German Garden)
49. Library Hospital (One, Two Buckle My Shoe)
50. Library Hospital (Summer at Tiffany)
51. Charlie (The Piano Teacher)
52. Amber Stults (Bleeding Heart Square)
53. Wayside Sacraments (Sixpence in Her Shoe)
54. Marie De Vries (The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan)
55. JHS (Fly Away Home)
56. Ruth (The Children’s Book)
57. JHS (Tattoos on the Heart)
58. Colleen @Books in the City (The Space Between Us)
59. Darla D (The Serpent’s Tale)
60. Darla D (Crossing Over)
61. Darla D (Sizzling Sixteen)
62. Darla D (Incarceron)
63. Nicola (Salem Brownstone by John Harris Dunning)
64. Nicola (Children of the Sea, Vol. 3)
65. Nicola (Countdown by Deborah Wiles)
66. Nicola (Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe)
67. Nicola (Manifest by Artist Arthur)
68. Nicola (New Catholic Picture Bible)
69. Benjie (Jesus, Career Counselor)
70. Benjie (Sadie When She Died)
71. Benjie (Waiting for Jack)
72. Diary of an Eccentric (To Kill a Mockingbird)
73. Diary of an Eccentric (How to Be an American Housewife)
74. Diary of an Eccentric (Paco’s Story)
75. Diary of an Eccentric (The Unit)
76. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The War Memoir of HRH Wallis Duchess of Windsor)
77. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Little Prince Graphic Novel)
78. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Folly)
79. Carina @ Reading Through Life (My Horizontal Life)
80. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Newspaper Blackout)
81. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Methland)
82. Julie @ Book Hooked (Room)

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