Saturday Review of Books: February 19, 2011

“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times.”~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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 (Epitaph Road)
2. Semicolon (Unbroken)
3. Cindy Swanson@Cindy’s Book Club (Words)
4. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Cruelest Month)
5. Carol in Oregon (A Dog in Flanders)
6. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Learning to Swim)
7. Carol in Oregon (Guys Reading Books)
8. Barbara H. (Song of Renewal)
9. Beth@Weavings (Brighty of the Grand Canyon)
10. Beth@Weavings (Today Matters)
11. Barbara H. (Living with Purpose in a Worn-out Body)
12. Collateral Bloggage (Never Let Me Go)
13. Collateral Bloggage (Will the Theologians Please Sit Down)
14. the Ink Slinger (The Martian Chronicles)
15. Krakovianka (Olive Kitteridge)
16. Lazygal (The Iron Queen)
17. Lazygal (Seeds)
18. Lazygal (Before I go to Sleep
19. Lazygal (The Sandalwood Tree)
20. Lazygal (The Tender Mercies of Roses)
21. Lazygal (Small Town Sinners)
22. Janet, Across the Page (One Thousand Gifts)
23. Janet (Black Ships Before Troy)
24. Alice@Supratentorial(One Thousand Gifts)
25. Upside Down B (A Geography of Time))
26. Upside Down B (Sarah’s Key)
27. Bart’s Bookshelf (Piercing)
28. Bart’s Bookshelf (Milo and the Restart Button)
29. Anne (3 books)
30. jama’s alphabet soup (Mini Racer)
31. jama’s alphabet soup (Babyberry Pie)
32. The Worm Hole (Cheerful Weather For The Wedding)
33. LL(Son of Hamas, Mennonite/Black Dress, The Glass Castle
34. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand)
35. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Read Aloud Thursday–ancient Egypt)
36. Heather @ Books For Breakfast (Little Red Riding Hood)
37. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Everything is Illuminated)
38. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Shades of Grey)
39. blacklin (Tutankhamun)
40. Word Lily (Havah)
41. The Lemme Library (Stinky Smelly Feet)
42. Dana(Cartoons Flannery O’Connor)
43. S. Krishna (Cracked Up To Be)
44. S. Krishna (Keys to the Castle)
45. S. Krishna (The Other Life)
46. S. Krishna (The Oracle of Stamboul)
47. S. Krishna (Riding the Ice Wind)
48. S. Krishna (The Vaults)
49. S. Krishna (Atlantic)
50. Nicola (The Book of Revelation by John the Apostle)
51. Nicola (Superman: Cosmic Bounty Hunter)
52. Nicola (Ghostwriter by Travis Thrasher)
53. Diary of an Eccentric (Bridge to Terabithia)
54. Nicola (How Do Apples Grow? by Betsy Maestro)
55. Diary of an Eccentric (Mr. Darcy’s Secret)
56. Nicola (Wonder Woman: Rumble in the Rainforest)
57. Nicola (Robot City Adventures Vol. 1-4)
58. SmallWorld Reads (Frankenstein)
59. Nicola (Death Note:Black Edition, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi Ohba)
60. Nicola (Bubble in the Bathtub by Jo Nesbo)
61. Melissa @ The Betty and Boo Chronicles (Molly Fox’s Birthday)
62. Girl Detective (I Think I Love You)
63. 1morechapter (Amsterdam)
64. 1morechapter (The Weird Sisters)
65. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Lady in the Mist)
66. Beckie@ByTheBook (Just Jane)
67. Beckie@ByTheBook (Book Lover’s Devotional)
68. Beckie@ByTheBook (Sharon Dunn’s Ruby Taylor mysteries)
69. Marie (Too Many Books)
70. Bonnie (Unaccustomed Earth)
71. Sarah Reads Too Much – Cost
72. Reading to Know (Dragon Picture Books))
73. Reading to Know (Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches))
74. Reading to Know (Planet Home)
75. yvonne – fiction books ‘Apartment 3B
76. Library Hospital (Romantic Passages from Favorite Reads Part VI)
77. Library Hospital (Romantic Passages from Favorite Reads Part V)
78. Carol in Oregon (The Peterkin Papers)
79. 1morechapter (Disgrace)
80. Ruth (three latest books)
81. BookBelle (Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand)
82. Amy Reads (The Price of Salt)
83. Amy Reads (The Education of a British-Protected Child)
84. Florinda @ The 3 R’s Blog (At Home: A Short History of Private Life)
85. Colloquium (Shadow Tag)
86. Colloquium (The Rhythm of Secrets))
87. BookBelle (The Weird Sisters)
88. The Lemme Library (Horton Halfpott)
89. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Hunger Games)
90. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Moonface)
91. melydia (Don’t Know Much About Mythology)
92. melydia (The Animal Review)
93. Gina @ Bookscount (Under the Mercy Trees)
94. Gina @ Bookscount (My Gay Sparkling Vampire Romance )
95. Lucybird’s Book Blog (When God was a Rabbit)

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4 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: February 19, 2011

  1. This week I’m reviewing Words, by Ginny L. Yttrup…a beautifully-written story of the triumph of love and grace over abuse and guilt. Please stop by and leave a comment!

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