“What I like best is a book that’s at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”~J.D. Salinger
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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Just linked to my review of Tom Clancy’s military thriller The Hunt for Red October. Good stuff.
Hi Sherry,
As usual, thanks so much for hosting.
My link this week is for ‘Hearts Of Gold’ by Jessica Stirling. A Scottish romantic saga, which turned out to be one of those cosy, comfortable books, that you can lose yourself in for a few hours.
http://www.fiction-books.biz/reviews/my-thoughts-about-hearts-of-gold-by-jessica-stirling/
Just linked to a review of In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut. A really excellent book that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year.
Have a great weekend.
Good morning, readers! Ink Slinger, I read Hunt for Red October years ago, but disliked it, felt it was a testosterone fest as it had no female characters, but I do remember a good plot and pacing.
Sherry, your quote is something Holden says in Catcher, right? My sister has a lovely story of how she read Robert Cormier’s “I Am the Cheese” in high school. At one point in the story, there is a phone number. She and her friend called it after school; it was Cormier’s own, and they got to talk to him about the book.
I reread Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale this week, which I selected for a book group I’ve started on fiction with themes of myth and religion. Whenever I told people what I was reading, they said, “I read that years ago!” I worried that it might be dated, but it was eerily timely in its environmental projections, and I’m excited to discuss it with others.
Thank you for hosting the post!Just linked my review. Have a nice weekend.
Thanks as always for hosting!
Thanks for hosting, Sherry – just linked to my review of Chris Ryan’s Strike Back.
Oops! I accidentally linked to the wrong week again. Sorry for the double link!