Saturday Review of Books: January 8, 2011

“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.” ~Blaise Pascal

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. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (A Step from Heaven by An Na)
2. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Her Daughter’s Dream by Francine Rivers)
3. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Read Aloud Thursday–Owls)
4. Janet, Across the Page (Son of Hamas)
5. the Ink Slinger (No Country For Old Men)
6. Hope (Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott))
7. gautami tripathy (Pushing Up Daisies)
8. gautami tripathy (If Walls Could Talk)
9. gautami tripathy (Blood of My Brother)
10. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (A Drink Before the War)
11. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Naughty: 9 Tales of Cjristmas Crime)
12. Bonnie (Heaven Is a Place on Earth)
13. Bonnie (The Summer of the Danes)
14. Bonnie (The Holy Thief)
15. Collateral Bloggage (Massive)
16. Collateral Bloggage (The Gun Seller)
17. The Friendly Book Nook (A Stitch Before Dying)
18. My Friend Amy (Paradise Valley)
19. Donovan @ Where Peen Meets Paper (The Blasphemer))
20. yvonne – fiction books
21. Melody @ Fingers & Prose (Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian)
22. Melody @ Fingers & Prose (2 Graphic Novels)
23. Krakovianka (Blindness)
24. Anne (Island of the World)
25. Fleur Fisher (A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers)
26. FleurFisher (The Hand that First Held Mine)
27. FleurFisher (Nimrod’s Shadow)
28. Laura @ I’m Booking It (The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond)
29. Samantha @ Bookworms and Tea Lovers (God’s Spy)
30. Samantha @ Bookworms and Tea Lovers (Luxembourg and the Jenisch Connection)
31. Beckie@ByTheBook (The Wolf of Tebron)
32. Amat Libris (The Interpretation of Murder)
33. Alice@Supratentorial (Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter)
34. Alice@Supratentorial(Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter)
35. JHS @ Colloquium (Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand)
36. JHS @ Colloquium (The Opposite of Me)
37. Nicole @ Linus’s Blanket (Disgrace)
38. Nicole @ Linus’s Blanket (American Uprising)
39. Nicole @ Linus’s Blanket (The Girl Who Became A Beatle)
40. Barbara H. (Snow Day)
41. Word Lily (The Word Made Flesh)
42. Farrar @ I Capture the Rowhouse (Keeper)
43. The Introverted Reader (Mistress of the Art of Death)
44. Girl Detective (Fables v. 14: @Witches)
45. Girl Detective (Drinking at the Movies GN)
46. Girl Detective (The Alcoholic GN)
47. The Introverted (At Home)
48. Girl Detective (4 GNs)
49. Girl Detective (Flaubert’s Parrot)
50. Girl Detective (Gemma Bovery GN)
51. The Introverted Reader (The Gendarme)
52. Girl Detective (Cakewalk)
53. melydia (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
54. melydia (Twilight: The Graphic Novel, vol 1)
55. melydia (Cauldron Cooker’s Night)
56. melydia (Alien Ice Cream)
57. melydia (Moominpappa’s Memoirs)
58. melydia (Fairest)
59. melydia (The Creative Writer’s Survival Guide))
60. LaughingLioness (Radical)
61. SmallWorld (Top 10 in 2010 and Books Read)
62. Reading to Know (Living in God’s Two Kingdoms)
63. Amy Reads (A Swamp Full of Dollars)
64. Mindy Withrow (Muriel Barbery’s ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG)
65. Violet (One Thousand Gifts)
66. Cindy @OrdoAmoris
67. Cindy @OrdoAmoris (My Reading Life by Pat Conroy)
68. Lucybird’s Book Blog (West End Girls)
69. Lucybird’s Book Blog (One Day)
70. Cindy @OrdoAmoris(The Year in Review: Books Read)
71. Cindy Swanson (Daisy Chain)
72. Amber Stults (Bark Up the Right Tree)
73. Melissa @ The Betty and Boo Chronicles (Not My Boy!)
74. Melissa @ The Betty and Boo Chronicles (Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet)
75. Shauna (Almost Heaven)
76. Carol’s Notebook – The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
77. Mystie (Story Craft)
78. Nicola (Birth of a Killer by Darren Shan)
79. Nicola (Babar and the Ghost by Laurent de Brunhoff)
80. Nicola (Gunnerkrigg Court, Vol. 2: Research)
81. Nicola (Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Leader in Troubled Times)
82. Nicola (Free Country by Jeremy Duns)
83. Nicola (The Boy Who Conquered Mt. Everest: The Jordan Romero Story)
84. Nicola (Thunder from the Sea: Adventure Upon the HMS Defender by Jeff Weigel)
85. sonja (A Year in the World)
86. Gina @ Bookscount (Bridge in the Rain)
87. Gina @ Bookscount ( the Scourge)
88. Diary of an Eccentric (The Crimson Rooms)

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5 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: January 8, 2011

  1. I thought I’d try this again — if I can keep up with writing reviews! Thanks, as always, for hosting the Saturday Review.

  2. I don’t get to post on your great meme as often as I would like, as I don’t really get that much time for reading and generally don’t get through as many books as other bloggers seem to.

    My reviews are therefore a little further apart than most, although I do stop by on a regular basis, to read and comment on what others are writing about.

  3. Thanks again for keeping the Saturday Review going. It’s a great resource for keeping my wishlist so long! 🙂

  4. Good morning, readers! Lots of graphic novels, some really good, others just not. BUT I highly recommend both Flaubert’s Parrot and Gemma Bovery for those of you who read the new translation of Madame Bovary–really interesting interplays and connections, compares and contrasts!

  5. Amazingly (for me!) I haven’t yet read a book in 2011! I’m flashing back today to a 2009 review I wrote about Mary DeMuth’s wonderful “Daisy Chain.” Stop on by!

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