Saturday Review of Books: April 30, 2011

“In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”~S.I. Hayakawa

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. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Heart of a Samurai)
2. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Cloud Tea Monkeys)
3. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (His Shoes Were Far Too Tight)
4. Carol in Oregon (The Extravagant Frugal Reader)
5. the Ink Slinger (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
6. Carol in Oregon (String Straightedge and Shadow)
7. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Assassination Vacation)
8. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Tudor Secret)
9. Florinda @ The 3 R’s Blog (What Good is God?)
10. Why Homeschool (America Alone)
11. Beth@Weavings (Lumby On the Air)
12. Yvonne@fictionbooks ‘Eyeshot’ by Lynn Hightower
13. Collateral Bloggage (Bloody Crimes)
14. Barbara H. (A Tale of Two Cities)
15. Hope (What to Eat by Marion Nestle)
16. Across the Page (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
17. Beckie @ ByThe Book (Tales of The Dim Knight)
18. Beckie@ByTheBook (Jane Fairfax)
19. Beckie@ByTheBook (The Genesis Trilogy)
20. Glynn (letters of Welty & Maxwell)
21. Graham @ My Book Year (Player One)
22. Sarah Reads Too Much (The Tapestry of Love)
23. Sarah Reads Too Much (Bossypants by Tina Fey)
24. Zee @ Notes from the North (Ett UFO gör entré (The Help)
25. Zee @ Notes from the North (Herland)
26. Alice@Supratentorial(Unshaken)
27. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism)
28. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Flyte)
29. DebD (Ghost Map)
30. Farrar @ I Capture the Rowhouse (The Fog Mound)
31. Word Lily (Attachments)
32. SmallWorld Reads (A Far Country)
33. Lazygal (This Live Is in Your Hands)
34. Lazygal (Everest)
35. Lazygal (In the Garden of Beasts)
36. Lazygal (The Emerald Atlas)
37. Lazygal (This Other Life)
38. Lazygal (This Beautiful Life)
39. Lazygal (The Wrong Mother)
40. Lazygal (Born Under a Lucky Moon)
41. Lazygal (Tempest Rising)
42. Lazygal (The Woodcutter)
43. Bob (Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia)
44. Girl Detective (“Calliope” from Dream Country)
45. Girl Detective (House of Tomorrow)
46. Reading to Know (The 21 Balloons)
47. Reading to Know (Inconceivable)
48. Reading to Know (Baseball Picture Books)
49. Reading to Know (Blackberry Crumble)
50. Ruth (latest three books)
51. Cindy’s Book Club (Sweet Caroline)
52. JHS (Memoirs of a Widowed MistressGIVEAWAY)
53. JHS (Husband and Wife GIVEAWAY)
54. JHS (Attachments GIVEAWAY)
55. JHS (Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life GIVEAWAY)
56. JHS (The Four Ms. Bradwells GIVEAWAY)
57. Becky (How To Study the Bible. R.A. Torrey)
58. Becky (How to Pray. R.A. Torrey)
59. Becky (The Judgment. Beverly Lewis)
60. Becky (Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper)
61. Becky (Land of Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer)
62. Becky (Sharp North by Patrick Cave)
63. Becky (Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson)
64. Santiago Pliego (The Greener Grass Conspiracy)
65. Santiago Pliego (Attlas Shrugged Pt.1-Book)
66. Santiago Pliego (Attlas Shrugged Pt. 2-Book)
67. melydia (Exchange)
68. melydia (First Men in the Moon)
69. Nicola (DC Super Pets! The Fastest Pet on Earth)
70. Nicola (Dragonbreath: Lair of the Bat Monster by Ursula Vernon)
71. Nicola (Dragonbreath: Curse of the Were-Wiener by Ursula Vernon)
72. Nicola (High Flight: A Story of WWII by Linda Granfield))
73. Nicola (Grandma’s Attic Books 1 & 2 by Arleta Richardson)
74. Nicola (Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 2)
75. Colleen (Thread of Sky)
76. Anne (Bible Study: Following the Ways of the Word)
77. Grooming the Next Generation for Success
78. Yvann (No Safe Haven)
79. Yvann (The Eloquence of Desire)
80. Yvann (Bel Canto)
81. Gina @ Bookscount (Cupid Gone Wild)
82. Woman of the House (The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan)
83. Diary of an Eccentric (Tomaree)
84. Diary of an Eccentric (A Jane Austen Education)

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8 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: April 30, 2011

  1. I know there are many Gaiman-philes here, so check out my post on “Calliope” to find out about the NPR reading group, which is reading his GN Dream Country.

  2. Better late than never, huh? 🙂 I was on vacation for a week, so didn’t blog much. I’m posting a review from the archives: “Sweet Caroline,” by Rachel Hauck…a pleasant, enjoyable read!

  3. I was told about this by a good friend of mine; it looks like it can be a real blessing to a lot of people. I’ll be checking in more often 🙂

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