Saturday Review of Books: May 28, 2011

“There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”~Marina Tsvetaeva

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. Lazygal (Skinny)
2. Lazygal (Illegal)
3. Lazygal (Beneath the Lion’s Gaze)
4. Lazygal (Nemesis)
5. Lazygal (Reading My Father)
6. Lazygal (The Map of Time)
7. Lazygal (My Dear I Wanted to Tell You)
8. Lazygal (What Happened to Goodbye)
9. Lazygal (The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives)
10. ibeeeg @ Polishing Mud Balls (Wild Geese)
11. ibeeeg @ Polishing Mud Balls (The Lies of Locke Lamora)
12. Bonnie (The Daughter of Time)
13. Reading to Know (Poppleton)
14. Reading to Know (The Help)
15. Reading to Know (Dylan’s Candy Bar)
16. the Ink Slinger (Alas, Babylon)
17. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (The Sun Also Rises)
18. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (God the Economist)
19. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Mockingbird)
20. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (2011 picture book picks)
21. Barbara H. (Lady In Waiting)
22. Beth@Weavings (Belles on Their Toes)
23. Collateral Bloggage (Architects of Tomorrow, Volume 1)
24. Glynn (Phinney’s The Happiness of Pursuit)
25. Yvonne@fictionbooks (Remembrance Day)
26. Hope (Jane Eyre)
27. Becky (The Virginian)
28. Becky (A House Divided)
29. Becky (Some Buried Caesar)
30. Becky (What Happened to Goodbye)
31. JHS (Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind)
32. JHS (Exposure)
33. JHS (Ten Beach Road GIVEAWAY)
34. FleurFisher (Inchworm)
35. FleurFisher (A Study in Scarlet)
36. FleurFisher (The Sonambulist)
37. BookBelle (Whiter Than Snow)
38. Sarah Reads Too Much (Lost in Shangri-La)
39. Sarah Reads Too Much (The Likeness)
40. Nicola (DC Super-Pets: Heroes of the High Seas)
41. Nicola (Irma Voth by Miriam Toews)
42. Nicola (Genkaku Picasso, Vol. 3)
43. Nicola (The Sindbad Trilogy by Ludmila Zeman)
44. Nicola (The Gates by John Connolly)
45. Nicola (Sleeping Beauty, Vampire Hunter & Cinderella, Ninja Warrior)
46. Nicola (Homer’s The Odyssey by Tim Mucci)
47. Word Lily (Over the Edge)
48. Word Lily (The Reluctant Detective)
49. Beckie @ ByThe Book (Contingency)
50. Beckie @ ByTheBook (False Witness)
51. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Tides of Truth series)
52. Colleen @Books in the City (Faith by Jennifer Haigh)
53. Judy@Seize the Book Blog (A Killer Among Us)
54. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (A Heart Divided)
55. Judy@Seize the Book Blog (How Huge the Night)
56. Judy@Seize the Book Blog (The DMZ)
57. Judy@Seize the Book Blog (Tomorrow’s Garden)
58. Girl Detective (Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World)
59. Lucybird’s Book Blog (The House at Riverton)
60. jama’s alphabet soup (Rice Pudding)
61. jama’s alphabet soup (When Bob Met Woody)
62. jama’s alphabet soup (Plenty Saimin)
63. Becky (Peony)
64. Becky (Last Chronicle of Barset)
65. violet
66. Woman of the House (The Natural Family)
67. Nise’ @ UTB (3 great YAs)
68. Design Mom (Pirates Don’t Take Baths)
69. Mrs. hankins (ESV Seek and FInd Bible)
70. R. Nigh (Frog and Toad Together)
71. A Foodie Bibliophile in Wanderlust (The Last Little Blue Envelope)
72. Thinking Out Loud (Not a Fan by Kyle Idleman)
73. Debbie Rodgers – Exurbanis.com (Thereby Hangs a Tail by Spencer Quinn)
74. SenoraG (Cruelty to Innocents)
75. melydia (Threadbared)
76. melydia (1,001 Things You Didn’t Know You Wanted to Know)
77. Diary of an Eccentric (The Katyn Order)
78. Diary of an Eccentric (Mr. Darcy and the Secret of Becoming a Gentleman)
79. Gina @ Bookscount(Krik Krak)
80. Gina @ Bookscount(Confessions of a shopaholic)
81. Jezebel Lee @ Jez’s Bookcase (Carrie Diaries)

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5 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: May 28, 2011

  1. Mine’s about cyclist Davis Phinney’s new book on cycling, his father, his son and his Parkinson’s Disease. Thanks for hosting this.

  2. Hi Sherry,

    I was just reading your previous post ‘Armchair BEA’. I really don’t think there is a right and wrong way to write a blog if you are doing so for your own personal satisfaction and enjoyment, so long as you enjoy doing it, why should you care what anyone else thinks?

    So on that note, thank you so much for choosing to host this meme each week.

    My book this week is a wartime saga ‘Remembrance Day’ by Leah Fleming, which I rated very highly.

    http://www.fiction-books.biz/reviews/my-thoughs-about-remembrance-day-by-leah-fleming/

  3. This week I reviewed Thereby Hangs a Tail, the second in the Chet & Bernie mystery series by Spencer Quinn. If you like dogs (& mysteries), you’ll love it.

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