“I like good wines, love, suffering, and books as consolation for the inevitable solitude.”~Pablo Neruda
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.
Thanks as always for hosting this. Looking forward to seeing what folks are reading!
Just posted my review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road…
Good morning readers! It’s been a few weeks since I’ve visited, but now that farmers market season is done I’m back with 2 19th century classics, one graphic novel based on a 19th century novel, and a good collection of modern short stories. It’s been a good reading spell. Happy reading to everyone else!
Great idea! Thanks for hosting 🙂
I’m always grateful for this forum of book lovers. This week’s book is another in what I’ve come to call my own personal cultural studies program.
…and I have to say that I love the link button! I just added it to my site. Yay!
I love the roundup! Thanks again 🙂
I’m flashing back today to 2003, when I reviewed Linda Hall’s Sadie’s Song–a remarkable book by an author who deserves more attention!
Almost forget this this week. Hope it’s not too late
Left my review – only today – I hope its not too late.