Saturday Review of Books: June 4, 2011

“Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.”~Dawn Adams

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. Gautami Tripathy (Room by Emma Donoghue)
2. Hope (The Children of Men by P.D. James)
3. the Ink Slinger (Love Is A Fallacy)
4. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Out of My Mind)
5. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Pompeii: City on Fire)
6. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (The Fine Art of Insincerity)
7. Anne (The Narnian)
8. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Trouble with May Amelia)
9. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Little Blue Truck)
10. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Hopper and Wilson & At This Very Moment)
11. Becky (Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer Holm)
12. Becky (True Grit by Charles Portis)
13. Becky (The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout)
14. Becky (Crocodile on the Sandbank)
15. Becky (Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood)
16. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Some Dream for Fools)
17. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Filter Bubble)
18. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Candy Girl)
19. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Girl Who Was On Fire)
20. Barbara H. (The Deepest Waters)
21. Barbara H. (Women’s Ministry In the Local Church)
22. Beth@Weavings (Gospel-Powered Parenting)
23. Beth@Weavings (Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends)
24. Cindy Swanson (Doomsday Book)
25. Embejo (A Fine Balance)
26. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Good People)
27. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Purity in Death)
28. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (God and the Evil of Scarcity)
29. FleurFisher (The Herring in the Library & Others)
30. FleurFisher (When God was a Rabbit)
31. Janet (An Experiment in Criticism)
32. JHS (Finding Frances GIVEAWAY)
33. JHS (Skinny GIVEAWAY)
34. JHS (Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind)
35. JHS (Exposure)
36. ibeeeg @ Polishing Mud Balls (Starcrossed)
37. Word Lily (When Sparrows Fall)
38. Zee @ Notes from the North (Tales from Outer Suburbia)
39. Mental multitivitamin (Reading life review)
40. Mental multitivitamin (Chapbook: Sherlock Holmes)
41. jama’s alphabet soup (Hot, Hot Roti for Dada-ji)
42. Beckie @ By The Book (Pompeii)
43. Beckie@ByTheBook (Fine Art of Insincerity)
44. Lazygal (Emily of Deep Valley)
45. Lazygal (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
46. Lazygal (The Imperfectionists)
47. Lazygal (Mere Humanity)
48. SmallWorld Reads (Pride and Prejudice)
49. melydia (How I Live Now)
50. melydia (How I Stole Johnny Depp’s Alien Girlfriend)
51. melydia (Whom God Would Destroy)
52. Amber Stults (Water for Elephants)
53. BookBelle (Up From The Blue)
54. Sheri @ Life on the Farm (Dancing to the Precipice)
55. Jezebel Lee @ Jez’s Bookcase (The Carrie Diaries)
56. Nicola (John F Kennedy The Making of a Leader)
57. Nicola (MAOH, Juvenile Remix, Vol. 5)
58. Nicola (Genesis by Bernard Beckett)
59. Nicola (Little Henry to the Rescue by Eleanor Graham)
60. Nicola (Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Vol. 5 by Hiroyuki Asada)
61. Nicola (DC Super-Pets! Heroes of the High Seas)
62. Yvann (Room)
63. Yvann (The Goddess Test)
64. Yvann (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake)
65. Becky (As I Wake by Elizabeth Scott)
66. Becky (A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness)
67. Becky (In Grandma’s Attic by Arleta Richardson)
68. Becky (More Stories from Grandma’s Attic by Arleta Richardson)
69. Becky (Beauty Queens by Libba Bray)
70. A Foodie Bibliophile in Wanderlust (A Pug’s Tale)
71. Benjie @ Book ‘Em Benj-O (12 Challenges Churches Face)
72. Becky (Legend by Marie Lu)
73. Woman of the House (A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie)
74. Gina @ Bookscount(A Conversation with God)
75. Diary of an Eccentric (The Sea and Poison)
76. Diary of an Eccentric (Dance Lessons)
77. Woman of the House (Tuesday Club Murders by Agatha Christie)

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4 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: June 4, 2011

  1. Hey, Sherry! I suppose #4 should actually say “Laura @ Seize the Book Blog” because it is her review. But I didn’t want to confuse everyone :).

  2. I’ve just broken a long reading drought. It’s nice to be back at the Saturday review. Thanks for having us 🙂

  3. My computer is in pieces on my kitchen table, so I am using oldest son’s laptop. Really sensitive — so my post #42 should be Beckie @ By The Book (Pompeii). Love engineers!

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