Saturday Review of Books: January 22, 2011

“‘I read every opportunity I can, and the pressure to grab those opportunities has grown more intense since the arrival of my daughter six years ago. I read and take notes on books I’m reviewing every day – as well as on vacations and all the major holidays. I read in the hours before dawn and while I proctor my students’ exams and while I wait for an oil change or a doctor’s appointment.”~Maureen Corrigan

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. Semicolon (You Are What You See)
2. S. Krishna (Across the Universe)
3. Semicolon (The Identity Man)
4. S. Krishna (The Weird Sisters)
5. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Read Aloud Thurday–Civil Rights movement)
6. S. Krishna (The Countess)
7. Semicolon (Ship Breaker)
8. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Year the Swallows Came Early)
9. S. Krishna (Murder in Plain Sight)
10. S. Krishna (Trust)
11. S. Krishna (Cleopatra: A Life)
12. Farrar @ I Capture the Rowhouse (The Explosionist)
13. Crystal @ My Reading Room (Awakened)
14. the Ink Slinger (Tactics)
15. The Friendly Book Nook (Katie Up and Down the Hall)
16. My Friend Amy (You Know When the Men are Gone)
17. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Scaredy Cat)
18. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Peter and the Sword of Mercy)
19. Austenland (Summer @ The Brothers H)
20. Books in the City (Promises to Keep)
21. Books in the City (The Corrections)
22. Books in the City (I Remember You)
23. Beth@Weavings (Spiritual Parenting)
24. Wayside Sacraments (The Spy Who Came in From the Cold)
25. Page Turner / Heather (Les Miserables)
26. Melinda (Goodness of God)
27. LitLad (Little Mouse Gets Ready)
28. Collateral Bloggage (Pathfinder)
29. Cindy Swanson@Cindy’s Book Club (Home, by Julie Andrews)
30. JHS (Resurrecting Anthony — GIVEAWAY)
31. FleurFisher (Framed in Cornwall)
32. JHS (To Nourish & Consume — GIVEAWAY)
33. FleurFisher (The Bower Bird)
34. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Abortion by R.C. Sproul)
35. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (The Search by Suzanne Woods Fisher)
36. Barbara H. (Anne of the Island)
37. Yvann (Plague Ship)
38. Yvann (The Bookshop)
39. Yvann (Sleeping Naked is Green)
40. Krakovianka (Howards End is on the Landing)
41. Iris on Books (Memoirs of Emma Courtney – Mary Hays)
42. Janet, Across the Page (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)
43. Nicola (Two Generals by Scott Chantler)
44. Nicola (Who Was Amelia Earhart?)
45. Nicola (Jimmy Neutron: Jimmy on Ice)
46. Nicola (2 Stone Arch Easy Reader Graphic Novels)
47. Nicola (Jack of Fables: The New Adv. of Jack & Jack)
48. Nicola (A Sickness in the Family by Denice Mina)
49. Nicola (Lola, A Ghost Story by J. Torres)
50. jama’s alphabet soup (The Great Wall of Lucy Wu)
51. In Spring it is the Dawn (Drinking Closer to Home)
52. Heather @ Books For Breakfast (Maggie and the Pirate
53. Heather @ Books For Breakfast (Big Susan)
54. Heather @ Books For Breakfast (Kitten Who Thought He Was A Mouse)
55. Nina (The Hidden Alphabet)
56. LaughingLioness (A Grief Observed)
57. Hope(I Saw Three Ships by Elizabeth Goudge)
58. Alice@Supratentorial(The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey)
59. Alice@Supratentorial(Medieval Themed Picture Books)
60. Lazygal (Delirium)
61. Lazygal (Timeless)
62. Lazygal (Drought)
63. Lazygal (Gossip from the Girls Room)
64. Lazygal (The Lost Saint)
65. Lazygal (The Tattooed Potato and other clues)
66. Lazygal (The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon)
67. Lazygal (Figgs & Phantoms)
68. Lazygal (Unearthly)
69. Lazygal (Bitter Melon)
70. Lazygal (Ten Thousand Saints)
71. Reading to Know (Rille of Ingleside)
72. Reading to Know (The Blythes are Quoted)
73. Reading to Know (A Child’s Book of Faeries)
74. Donovan @ Where Peen Meets Paper (The Devotion of Suspect X)
75. Kara @ Home With Purpose (Unlocked by Karen Kingsbury)
76. Dawn (Maisie Dobbs)
77. Dawn (Earth: The Audiobook)
78. Lily of the Nile (Bookworming in the 21st Century
79. Guardian of the Gate (Bookworming in the 21st Century
80. Blood Prophecy (Bookworming in the 21st Century
81. Marie (A Ring of Endless Light)
82. The Introverted Reader (Bending Toward the Sun)
83. The Introverted Reader (The Word Made Flesh)
84. The Introverted Reader (Winter’s Tale)
85. Amber Stults (The Outlander)
86. Darren @ Bart’s Bookshelf [Cryer’s Cross]
87. Darren @ Bart’s Bookshelf [Will Grayson, Will Grayson]
88. Florinda @ The 3 R’s Blog (Let’s Take the Long Way Home)
89. Ann (When We Were Orphans)
90. Amy (The Trouble With Nigeria)
91. Amy (Algerian White)
92. Melody @ Fingers & Prose (Great House)
93. Melody @ Fingers & Prose ( C )
94. Anne (A Conflict of Visions)
95. Beckie@ByTheBook (Indivisible)
96. Beckie@ByTheBook (Once in A Blue Moon)
97. Robin (Anna Karenina)
98. Ruth (four latest books)
99. Embejo (To Kill A Mockingbird)
100. Gina @ Bookscount (Almost French)
101. Gina @ Bookscount (Delivered with Love)
102. Gina @ Bookscount (Every Little Thing)
103. Diary of an Eccentric (The Report)
104. Diary of an Eccentric (The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy)

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8 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: January 22, 2011

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  2. Having been a big fan of Julie Andrews as a child, I really enjoyed reading her memoir of her early years. I hope you’ll stop by and leave a comment!

  3. This is the first time I’ve done Saturday Review – I hope I get some good recommendations from the links above!

  4. Thank you for hosting this. After one Saturday Review, I’ve already found a few new blogs to follow. Which is a dangerous thing because I already spend way too much time around the blogs.

  5. I have been wanting to participate in this for years, and I’ve finally done it! Thanks for hosting this, Sherry!

  6. Saturday review is responsible for me spending far too long reading ABOUT books…time I could be spending reading actual books 🙂 But it’s ok. I like it.

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