Saturday Review of Books: May 21, 2010

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“My books are my tools. They also serve as my counsel, my consolation, and my comfort. They are my source of wisdom and the font of my education. They are my friends and my delights. They are my surety, when all else is awry, that I have set my confidence in the substantial things of truth and right.”~Charles Spurgeon

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. Mental multivitamin (On the nightstand)
2. Barbara H. (Words)
3. Barbara H. (A Novel Idea)
4. Reading to Know (Bible Resources for Kids)
5. Reading to Know (Tuck Everlasting)
6. Melody @ Fingers & Prose (Willa Cather)
7. Melody @ Fingers & Prose (Mini Reviews)
8. Hope (The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin)
9. Hope (A Village Girl)
10. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Keeper)
11. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Half Magic)
12. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (human body resources)
13. Janet (The Way of a Pilgrim)
14. When Did I Get Like This? by Amy Wilson (Proud Book Nerd)
15. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Burning Girl)
16. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (False Mermaid)
17. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake)
18. Becky (Bumped by Megan McCafferty)
19. Becky (Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan)
20. Becky (Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen)
21. Becky (Silent Speaker by Rex Stout)
22. Graham @ My Book Year (The Turn of the Screw)
23. FleurFisher (Shadow of a Lady)
24. FleurFisher (Hector and the Secrets of Love)
25. JHS (Dead of Wynter GIVEAWAY)
26. JHS (The Beach Trees GIVEAWAY)		 27. JHS (When We Danced on Water GIVEAWAY)
28. JHS (Friendship Bread)
29. Nicola (Toy Story: toy Overboard Graphic Novel)
30. Nicola (Grimpow: The Invisible Road by Rafael Abalos)
31. Nicola (Cowboys & Aliens by Fred Van Lente)
32. Nicola (Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop)
33. Nicola (Why Catholics are Right by Michael Coren)
34. Nicola (Frog and Toad Together)
35. Nicola (Snow Treasue by Marie McSwigan)
36. DebD (Defining the World)
37. Home Joys (Light My Candle)
38. Beckie@ByTheBook (Elizabeth I)
39. Beckie@ByTheBook (Missions of Mercy series)
40. Lucybird’s Book Blog (The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty)
41. Lucybird’s Book Blog (The Graveyard Book)
42. BookBelle (Go Ask Alice)
43. SmallWorld Reads (The Remains of the Day)
44. Sarah Reads Too Much (Jane Eyre)
45. Colleen (Three Hens and a Peacock)
46. Sarah Reads Too Much (Don’t Breathe a Word)
47. Sarah Reads Too Much (Better Together)
48. Glynn (Randy Singer’s “False Witness”)
49. Library Hospital (The Sherlockian)
50. Library Hospital (Crooked Adam)
51. Beckie@ByTheBook (Words)
52. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Ice Man)		 53. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Skinny)
54. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Dexter is Delicious)
55. Farrar @I Capture the Rowhouse (This Girl is Different))
56. Yvann (A Red Herring Without Mustard)
57. Yvann (It Takes A Village)
58. Yvann (Deliver Us From Evil)
59. Yvann (Flawed)
60. Tesni (Between Shade of Gray)
61. Rebecca (Attachments)
62. Penelope (Possession by Elana Johnson)
63. NotNessie (So Much Closer)
64. Nise (Strings Attached)
65. Megan (Between Here and Forever)
66. Maya (The Summer I Turned Pretty)
67. Marci (Don’t Breathe a Word)
68. Liz (13 Little Blue Envelopes)
69. Lisa the Nerd (Horton Halfpott)
70. Lisa (Abandon)
71. Booksnob (Long Way Gone))
72. Meredith (Something, Maybe)
73. The MG Owl (The Crepe Makers’ Bond)
74. Jenny (Maisie Dobbs)
75. Diary of an Eccentric (My Rotten Life)
76. Diary of an Eccentric (Island Beneath the Sea)
77. Gina @ Bookscount (Creation)
78. Gina @ Bookscount (Evil Genius)

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10 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: May 21, 2010”

  1. Trying to get one more review in before Rapture, eh? 😉

    Bummer I don’t have a review to post. Too busy to get more than Bible reading in lately.

  2. Hey, I’m first! How cool is that? 🙂

    Sherry, thanks for hosting this each week; I really enjoy checking out other readers’ entries.

    Best regards.

    Melissa

    Postscript: Chuckling at Seth’s comment. Heh, heh, heh.

  3. Well, Sherry, I did it again. Link #10 can be deleted; it’s one of mine from last week. I think I’ll give up trying to do this on my iPod while I rock the wee one to sleep. 🙂

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