Saturday Review of Books: October 23, 2010

“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

18 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: October 23, 2010

  1. Hi Sherry! I just re-activated my old book blog, and I’m trying to breathe new life into it. I didn’t review a book this week–just posted some “re-runs”–but I do plan to genuinely take part in the Saturday Review in the future.

  2. Sherry~ Thanks for the invitation to participate in your Saturday meme. What a great idea! Just hopping by & still checking things out. Thanks for visiting my blog 🙂

  3. Thanks for letting me know. I am too late this week, and will be on vacation, but I will do it when I come back.

  4. Thank you for inviting me! What a great idea for book lovers! Now I have a place to find some great reads all in one spot!

  5. Oops I forgot to write my title! Anyway it’s at The Blue Bookcase of The Secret Life of Bees. Thanks for the invite! I think this is a great idea!

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