Saturday Review of Books: October 30, 2010

“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day,
if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.”
~Horace Mann

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.

11 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: October 30, 2010

  1. Hi Sherry. Life has been full. I never stop reading, but I’m backlogged on writing my reviews (or responses) to the books. I hope to be a more regular contributor to Saturday Review! Letters to an American Lady surprised me: a C.S. Lewis book that annoyed me. Thank you for being a great host!

    Carol in Oregon

  2. I believe this is the first time I’ve participated! I’m reviewing “The Silent Governess,” by Julie Klassen…a book I thoroughly enjoyed!

  3. Sherry, help yourself to the icon! I never knew how to create them either, until I just googled something like “creating a blog button.”

    Then, to put the icon on your sidebar and allow people to “grab it” for their own blogs, go to this article:

    http://bloggingwithsuccess.net/grab-button-advertise-blog

    I’ve saved you one step…you won’t need to upload the icon to the internet. It’s located here:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/54090117@N08/5129805062/

    Good luck!

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