“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.”~W. Somerset Maugham
If 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.
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I’m waver between reading the very best books in my personal library and reading the middling range that I can swap when I’m done. This week I read ones to clear the shelves.
Thank you for hosting this, Sherry. Do you ever get tired of doing it? 🙂
Reading to clear the shelves. Unfortunately I know what that’s like, although sometimes you do find a treasure.
No, I don’t get tired of the Saturday Review, at least not yet. It’s easy to set up and I enjoy seeing what everyone is reading.
Requesting prayers for my little sis. She lives in Kamaishi City, not far from the epicenter. We haven’t heard from her yet.
Hi Sherry,
Unmanageable TBR lists are par for the course, aren’t they?
I am forever reading to clear mine, but somehow it just keeps getting bigger, can’t think what’s causing it!!!
‘Love Letters’ was an author request for review and although already a published children’s author, this is Geraldine Solon’s first foray into adult contemporary romantic fiction.
Have a great weekend!
I acquired this book about Friendship because Welty was one of the editors…. and I’m trying to get to know her voice. It’s been a delightful find.
Good morning readers! I read The Finkler Question, last year’s Man Booker prize winner. Hard to describe–it is a challenging book about pervasive anti-semitism and violence, so it was awareness increasing, yet it was largely not enjoyable for me, so hard to recommend.