Saturday Review of Books: February 12, 2011

“You can cover a great deal of country in books.”~Andrew Lang

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. The Lemme Library (One Crazy Summer)
2. Collateral Bloggage (The Last Sorcerers)
3. Collateral Bloggage (Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods)
4. Janet, Across the Page (Safely Home)
5. Florinda @ The 3 R’s Blog (The Warmth of Other Suns)
6. Florinda @ The 3 R’s Blog (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)
7. the Ink Slinger (The Voyage of the Armada)
8. Reading to Know (The Hunger Games)
9. Reading to Know (The Littles Take a Trip)
10. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Betti on the High Wire)
11. Reading to Know (What are You Waiting For?)
12. Reading to Know (The Duggars: 20 & Counting)
13. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Read Aloud Thursday–Valentine’s Day picture books)
14. Donovan @ Where Peen Meets Paper (The Art of the Commonplace)
15. Beth@Weavings (Heart of Lies)
16. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (A Study in Scarlet)
17. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (State of the Onion)
18. Barbara H. (50 People Every Christian Should Know)
19. Barbara H. (Looking for Anne of Green Gables)
20. Page Turner / Heather (Emily Climbs)
21. Bonnie (In Siberia)
22. Carol in Oregon (Hilaire Belloc Sampler)
23. Laughing (The Book Thief)
24. GoldenGrasses (UnPlanned)
25. Iris on Books (The Taste of Sorrow – Jude Morgan)
26. Melody @ Fingers & Prose (Nine Horses–poetry)
27. Melody @ Fingers & Prose (True Grit)
28. Lazygal (The Returning)
29. blacklin (Man’s Search For Meaning)
30. Lazygal (The Death Catchers)
31. Lazygal (Imaginary Girls)
32. Lazygal (The Preacher)
33. Heather @ Books For Breakfast (Tim To The Rescue
34. Sarah Reads Too Much (Lolita by Nabokov)
35. Nicola (Unbroken: A World War II Story by Laura Hillenbrand)
36. Nicola (Grasshopper on the Road by Arnold Lobel)
37. SmallWorld Reads (On Agate Hill–Lee Smith)
38. Nicola (Batman: Mad Hatter’s Movie Madness)
39. Nicola (Children of the Sea, Vol. 4)
40. Nicola (The Whicharts by Noel Streatfeild)
41. Nicola (The Dynamic World of Chemical Reactions)
42. Nicola (The Whirlwind World of Hurricanes)
43. Nicola (Falcons Gold: Canada’s First Olympic Hockey Heroes)
44. 1morechapter (How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe)
45. Beckie@ByTheBook (Doesn’t She Look Natural?)
46. Beckie@ByTheBook (Head in The Clouds)
47. Beckie@ByTheBook (Mrs. Elton in America)
48. Mental multivitamin (Reading life review: January)
49. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (If God is Good)
50. S. Krishna (The Best American Travel Writing 2010)
51. 1morechapter (Moon over Manifest)
52. S. Krishna (Choker)
53. S. Krishna (The Pioneer Woman)
54. S. Krishna (Love in Complete Sentences)
55. S. Krishna (A Discovery of Witches)
56. 1morechapter (Ship Breaker)
57. S. Krishna (Look Again)
58. S. Krishna (Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother)
59. Word Lily (The Chasm)
60. Megan (Open House)
61. Girl Detective (Room)
62. Girl Detective (Gilead)
63. Beth S. (Does My Head Look Big in This?)
64. Melinda (Kingdom’s Dawn…and giveaway)
65. The Worm Hole (Matched)
66. Civil Thoughts (Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother)
67. kort @ one deep drawer (On the Banks of Plum Creek)
68. Amber Stults (Spellbent)
69. Kathryn @ Suitable for Mixed Company (The Godly Man’s Picture)
70. Mystie (Knowing God)
71. Alice@Supratentorial(My Reading Life)
72. The Book Thief (My Devotional Thoughts)
73. Scandal Becomes Her (My Devotional Thoughts)
74. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Room)
75. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Annabel)
76. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain)
77. Carina @ Reading Through Life (If I Stay)
78. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Spark)
79. Diary of an Eccentric (Defending the Enemy)
80. Diary of an Eccentric (Meet Molly)
81. Diary of an Eccentric (Speak)
82. Kevin Stilley (Antigone – discussion questions)
83. Kevin Stilley (Oedipus the King – discussion questions)
84. Gina @ Bookscount (The Polished Hoe)
85. Dana(Cartoons Flannery O’Connor)
86. Yvann (Life After Yes)

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9 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: February 12, 2011

  1. I’m convinced I wouldn’t read nearly so many books without Saturday Reviews. Between the motivation of “I’ve gotta review something this week” and all the fascinating titles I read about, you severely cut down my TV watching.

  2. Thank you, Sherry! I love looking through all the reviews every week. And it’s always good to have a chance to post mine here, too!

  3. Good morning, readers! What I love about this is the huge variety of posters–we read a lot of books, and a lot of really different books. There’s always someone here I follow through on, whether I end up agreeing with them about the book, or not.

  4. Pingback: Book note: The Godly Man’s Picture, by Thomas Watson (updated) « Suitable For Mixed Company

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