Saturday Review of Books: November 27, 2010

“I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket. I believe in reading books because others dislike them or find them dangerous. I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.”~Rick Moody

SatReviewbuttonIf 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. Ruth (Mockingjay)
2. JHS @ Colloquium (Everything I Never Wanted to Be)
3. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper
4. Alice@Supratentorial (My Name Is Red)
5. Melody @ Fingers & Prose (The Handmaid’s Tale)
6. Reading to Know (First Dog’s White House Christmas))
7. Reading to Know (Little Star)
8. Reading to Know (Advent Books for Families)
9. Collateral Bloggage (The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame)
10. the Ink Slinger (The Life of Dr. John Donne)
11. Florinda @ The 3 R’s Blog (Unstoppable in Stilettos)
12. Florinda @ The 3 R’s Blog (Looking for Alaska)
13. Violet (Make Love, Make War)
14. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Emotional Geology))
15. Lucybird’s Book Blog (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
16. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Proust and the Squid)
17. Lucybird’s Book Blog (The Chocolate Run))
18. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Double Vision)
19. Janet (Three Cups of Tea (Young Readers’) and Listen to the Wind)
20. By The Book (Cozy in Kansas)
21. Janie (The Wedding: An Encounter with Jan van Eyck))
22. melydia (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
23. melydia (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)
24. Yvonne@Fiction Books
25. melydia (A Place to Die)
26. SmallWorld Reads (Olive Kitteridge)
27. Word Lily (Resurrection in May)
28. Bluestocking
29. Nicola (Nola’s Worlds: Changing Moon)
30. Nicola (Harry the Poisonous Centipede by Lynne Reid Banks)
31. Nicola (The Adventures of Daniel Boom aka Loud Boy vol. 1-4)
32. Nicola (The Witch’s Tears by Jenny Nimmo)
33. Nicola (Lila & Ecco’s Do-It-Yourself Comics Club)
34. Nicola (The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan)
35. Nicola (Guinea Pig: Pet Shop Private Eye Vol. 1 & 2)
36. Lazygal (Room)
37. Lazygal (Under the Banner of Heaven)
38. Lazygal (The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise)
39. Lazygal (You)
40. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde)
41. Amber Stults (Katie Up and Down the Hall)
42. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Book of Trees)
43. Darren @ Bart’s Bookshelf (Piper)
44. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix))
45. Darren @ Bart’s Bookshelf (Her Fearful Symmetry)
46. Darren @ Bart’s Bookshelf (The Last Dragonslayer)
47. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince)
48. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows)
49. Carina @ Reading Through Life (After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed)
50. Carina @ Reading Through Life (V for Vendetta)
51. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who …)
52. Melissa @ The Betty and Boo Chronicles (Scroogenomics)
53. Girl Detective (Far from the Madding Crowd)
54. Girl Detective (Far Arden GN)
55. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Free Fall)
56. Carol in Oregon (Island of the World, Best Book of 2010, GIVEAWAY!)
57. Diary of an Eccentric (Art & Max)
58. Diary of an Eccentric (Carney’s House Party)
59. Diary of an Eccentric (Winona’s Pony Cart)

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You are all invited back to Semicolon daily from Monday November 29, 2010 through January 6, 2011, where I’ll be celebrating the 38 Days of Christmas. (I can have as many as I want, can’t I?) I’ll be posting a new literary quotation celebration each day with links to a poem, a birthday, a song, and a book (list or review) every day, too. I hope you’ll enjoy my Christmas gift to you.

2 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: November 27, 2010

  1. Good afternoon, readers! I recently read Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd, and my review includes similarities I found to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, so all you who’ve read any of those might find interesting stuff about the Hardy book.

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