Saturday Review of Books: May 7, 2011

“No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.”~Mario Vargas Llosa

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 (Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic)
2. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Rascal)
3. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (“The Hurt Man” by Wendell Berry)
4. the Ink Slinger (We Die Alone)
5. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (Just Business)
6. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (You Believers)
7. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The 6th Target)
8. Reading to Know (Jamaica Inn)
9. Reading to Know (God’s Priorities for Today’s Woman)
10. Reading to Know (Gianna . . Aborted and Lived to Tell About It)
11. Reading to Know (Space Books for Kids)
12. Beth@Weavings (The Dashwood Sisters Tell All)
13. Zee @ Notes from the North (Damia’s Children)
14. Zee @ Notes from the North (The Dowry Bride)
15. Zee @ Notes from the North (A Hat Full of Sky)
16. Across the Page (Caddie Woodlawn)
17. Across the Page (Goodnight Mr Tom)
18. Across the Page (“The Boundary” by Wendell Berry)
19. Alice@Supratentorial(Deconstructing Penguins)
20. FleurFisher (The Man with the Cane))
21. FleurFisher (Pigeon English)
22. FleurFisher (The Illusion of Murder)
23. BookBelle (Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother)
24. Glynn (TweetSpeak Poetry)
25. Beckie@ByTheBook (Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries)
26. Beckie@ByTheBook (Unconventional)
27. Beckie@ByTheBook (Undaunted Faith)
28. Beckie@ByTheBook (People of The Book)
29. DebD (Charlotte Sometimes)
30. Word Lily (Juniper Berry)
31. Benjie @ Book ‘Em Benj-O (The Lincoln Lawyer)
32. Benjie @ Book ‘Em Benj-O (“Snow” Collection by Calvin Miller)
33. Benjie @ Book ‘Em Benj-O (Sir Quinlan and the Swords of Valor)
34. Mental multivitamin (Reading life review)
35. JHS (As the Sycamore Grows)
36. Nicola (The Secret of the Silver Mines by Shane Peacock)
37. Nicola (The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan)
38. Nicola (The Lightning Thief Graphic Novel)
39. Nicola (Love You More by Lisa Gardner)
40. Nicola (Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel)
41. Nicola (Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff)
42. Nicola (Graphic Classics #20: Western Classics)
43. S. Krishna (Short Reviews)
44. S. Krishna (Butchers Hill)
45. Hope (The Staggerford Flood by Jon Hassler)
46. S. Krishna (The Beach Trees)
47. S. Krishna (The Informationist)
48. S. Krishna (In the Shadow of the Cypress)
49. S. Krishna (Dead of Wynter)
50. S. Krishna (Guilt By Association)
51. violet (From the Library of A. W. Tozer)
52. Becky (East Wind: West Wind by Pearl S. Buck)
53. Becky (Stay by Deb Caletti)
54. Becky (City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare)
55. Colleen (One Day by David Nicholls)
56. Girl Detective (The Red Tent)
57. Yvonne@fictionbooks ‘Devil’s Peak’ by Deon Meyer
58. Carol in Oregon (German Boy)
59. Becky (The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul)
60. Darren @ Bart’s Bookshelf (The Amulet of Samarkand)
61. Darren @ Bart’s Bookshelf (The Golem’s Eye)
62. Darren @ Bart’s Bookshelf (Ptolomy’s Gate
63. Becky (Boss Baby by Marla Frazee)
64. Becky (Tweak, Tweak by Eve Bunting)
65. Becky (Chicken, Chicken Duck by Nadia Krilanovich)
66. Becky (My Side of the Car by Kate Feiffer)
67. Becky (Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers)
68. Becky (Your Mommy Was Just Like You by Kelly Bennett)
69. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Pigeon English)
70. Cindy’s Book Club (Wolves Among Us)
71. BookBelle (Exposure)
72. Laughing@Old Men @ Midnight
73. Woman of the House (Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope)
74. Florinda @ The 3 R’s Blog (Planting Dandelions)
75. Graham @ My Book Year (The Long Song)
76. Diary of an Eccentric (Far to Go)
77. Diary of an Eccentric (What We Knew)
78. melydia (Dune)
79. melydia (The Talisman of Elam)
80. melydia (The Thief Lord)
81. melydia (Storm Front)
82. Gina @ Bookscount (What’s Wrong with Donny Speck)
83. Farrar @I Capture the Rowhouse (A Ring of Endless Light)
84. Lucybird’s Book Blog (The Graveyard Book)

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