Saturday Review of Books: May 14, 2011

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“The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.”~Samuel Davies

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 book review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week. 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 (Scranimals)
2. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (wild west picture books)
3. GretchenJoanna (Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered…)
4. GretchenJoanna (The Hungry Soul)
5. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (2 Wendell Berry short stories)
6. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Phillis’s Big Test)
7. Janet (The Metamorphosis)
8. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Brutal Telling)
9. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Georgia Bottoms)
10. Reading to Know (Rasputin’s Daughter)
11. Reading to Know (In the Land of Believers)
12. Reading to Know (The Littles and the Lost Children)
13. Anne (Jayber Crow)
14. Barbara H. (Leaving; An Unlikely Blessing; Love Finds You in Camelot, TN)
15. Graham @ My Book Year (Room)
16. Home Joys (In Defense of Food)
17. Home Joys (The Johnstown Flood)
18. DebD (Out Stealing Horses)
19. Alice@Supratentorial(The Mind of the Maker)
20. SmallWorld Reads (Comes a Time for Burning)
21. Cindy At Ordo Amoris (School Education by Charlotte Mason)
22. Janie (Beyond the Blackboard)
23. Debbie Rodgers – Exurbanis.com (Bullet Work)
24. Debbie Rodgers – Exurbanis.com (The Weird Sisters)
25. Debbie Rodgers – Exurbanis.com (Wrecker)
26. S. Krishna (Up from the Blue)
27. S. Krishna (The Bake-Off)		 28. S. Krishna (The Sweet Relief of Missing Children)
29. S. Krishna (The First Husband)
30. S. Krishna (Lost and Fondue)
31. S. Krishna (Gone With a Handsomer Man)
32. S. Krishna (The Mistress of Spices)
33. Benjie @ Book ‘Em Benj-O (Nick of Time)
34. Colleen (The Lost Girls)
35. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (Hot, Flat, and Crowded)
36. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (The Crossing)
37. Girl Detective (A Visit from the Goon Squad)
38. Girl Detective (Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal)
39. Girl Detective (Dream Country GN)
40. Bookie Woogie (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon)
41. A Foodie Bibliophile in Wanderlust (Shimmer)
42. Becky (Kinfolk by Pearl S. Buck)
43. Becky (The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck)
44. Becky (Sons by Pearl S. Buck)
45. Becky (Black Orchids by Rex Stout)
46. Becky (The Story of Britain by Patrick Dillon)
47. Becky (A Ball for Daisy)
48. Becky (The Watcher)
49. Becky (Why One Way by John MacArthur)
50. ChristineMM @The Thinking Mother (Tom Thumb)
51. Beckie@ByTheBook (Friendship Bread)
52. Beckie@ByTheBook (Captain Wentworth’s Diary)
53. Beckie@ByTheBook (Sarah Booth Delaney mystery series)
54. Sherrie (Threads West)		 55. Rundpinne (The Midwife’s Confession))
56. Rundpinne (The Sandalwood Tree)
57. Woman of the House (1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth)
58. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Dexter in the Dark))
59. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Loom)
60. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Dexter by Design)
61. Carina @ Reading Through Life (A Thread of Sky)
62. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Water for Elephants)
63. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Chosen One)
64. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Dressmaker of Khair Khana)
65. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Promise Not To Tell)
66. Carina @ Reading Through Life (One Big Happy Family)
67. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Man Who Loved Books Too Much)
68. BookBelle (Hotel Paradise)
69. Diary of an Eccentric (The Beach Trees)
70. Diary of an Eccentric (The Winter of the World)
71. Diary of an Eccentric (The Truth About Mr. Darcy)
72. Gina @ Bookscount (The Village)
73. Gina @ Bookscount (Tide Running)
74. Nat@ Reading Romances (Storm’s Heart)
75. melydia (Rin-Tin-Tin: The Movie Star)
76. melydia (The Red Tent)
77. melydia (Guilty Pleasures)
78. melydia (The Dog Park)
79. melydia (Borneo Tom)

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8 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: May 14, 2011”

  4. I’ve never linked or commented here but have enjoyed reading the reviews here for years. I’ve learned about so many good books!

    Thanks!
    Gina

  5. Pingback: Out Stealing Horses « Deb on the Run

  6. Thanks again, Sherry, for providing this each week! I look forward to it even when I don’t have anything to post. 🙂

  7. Thanks for the opportunity to link!

    I’ve posted 3 reviews this week–2 ARCs and a library book. My pick for the week is Wrecker by Summer Wood, followed by The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown.

  8. Hi, This week I reviewed a new release juv lit biography Tom Thumb by George Sullivan, publisher says for ages 10-14 but I think it is good for youngers too especially as a read aloud.

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