Saturday Review of Books: December 18, 2010

“Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.” ~Madeleine L’Engle

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. FRom the Dead by John Herrick
2. Miss Hildreth Wore Brown by Olivia deBelle Bryd
3. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (picture books about Christmas in Mexico)
4. the Ink Slinger (The Island of Dr. Moreau)
5. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Wrong Blood)
6. Carol in Oregon (How to Justify a Private Library)
7. Hope (The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis)
8. Collateral Bloggage (The Penderwicks)
9. Collateral Bloggage (Two “Festivus” books)
10. Embejo (Gilead)
11. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper
12. Beth (The Gathering Storm)
13. FleurFisher (A Long and Fatal Love Chase)
14. FleurFisher (Paradise Creek)
15. FleurFisher (The Burying Beetle)
16. Beckie@ByTheBook (The Christmas Chronicles)
17. Beckie@ByTheBook (Red Ink)
18. Beckie@ByTheBook (The Topkapi Secret)
19. Word Lily (A Star Curiously Singing)
20. Word Lily (The Christmas Glass)
21. Word Lily (City of Tranquil Light)
22. jama’s alphabet soup (Sugar and Ice)
23. jama’s alphabet soup (Man Gave Names to All the Animals)
24. Diary of an Eccentric (The Watsons)
25. Diary of an Eccentric (Lady Susan)
26. Lazygal (Await Your Reply)
27. Lazygal (The Wasp Factory)
28. Lazygal (We the Children)
29. Swapna (The Wave)
30. Swapna (Bellfield Hall)
31. Swapna (Born Confused)
32. Swapna (Death Notice)
33. Swapna (Sourland: Stories)
34. Swapna (The Exile)
35. Swapna (The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay)
36. Upsidedown B (Room)
37. melydia (Perfume)
38. melydia (Paper Towns)
39. Reading to Know (Great Joy, by DiCamillo)
40. Reading to Know (The Gift of the Magi)
41. Reading to Know (Tales from Grace Chapel Inn)
42. Janie (The List)
43. Find Your Next Good Read (Code Triage)
44. blacklin (Tales Of The City)
45. Darren @ Bart’s Bookshelf (The Auschwitz Violin)
46. Girl Detective (Await Your Reply
47. Samantha (Elements of Mystery Writing)
48. Samantha (Ludmilla)
49. Upsidedown B (The Girl…)
50. Marie (The Shadow Children Series)
51. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Red Ink by Kathi Macias)
52. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Room by Emma Donoghue)
53. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (God Loves Single Moms)
54. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Nightingale by Susan May Warren)
55. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (The Killing Storm)
56. Amy Reads (Stork and A Kiss in Time)
57. Amy Reads (War on the Margins)
58. Amy Reads (Slow Death by Rubber Duck)

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6 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: December 18, 2010

  1. I think I have just written the lamest and most understated post ever. It was a lazy effort, but I LOVED Gilead.

  2. Happy Holidays, Sherry, and thank you for all the work you do to make Semicolon so awesome, including hosting Saturday Review of Books every week!

  3. So glad to be able to come back once in a while with a book!

    Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas!

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