Saturday Review of Books: June 11, 2010

“When the storytelling goes bad in society, the result is decadence..”~Aristotle

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 (Caddie Woodlawn’s Family)
2. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Tears of the Giraffe)
3. the Ink Slinger (The Day of the Triffids)
4. Summer @ The Brothers H (Vanity Fair)
5. Europeanne (Scaramouche)
6. Cindy Swanson (Fairer than Morning)
7. Collateral Bloggage (And God Said)
8. Reading to Know (Picture Books for Boys and Girls)
9. Yvonne@fictionbooks (The Paradise Waltz)
10. Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson
11. Embejo (Healing Spiritual Abuse)
12. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (A Clockwork Orange)
13. Beth@Weavings (Pagoo)
14. Beth@Weavings (The Penderwicks at Point Mouette
15. Graham @ My Book Year (Legend of a Suicide)
16. Janet (The Atomic Weight of Secrets)
17. Zee @ Notes from the North (Water for Elephants)
18. Zee @ Notes from the North (Unaccustomed Earth)
19. Zee @ Notes from the North (Tomorrow Pamplona)
20. Yvann @ Reading, Fuelled By Tea (Before I Die)
21. Yvann @ Reading, Fuelled By Tea (Absolute Friends)
22. Yvann @ Reading, Fuelled By Tea (Left Neglected)
23. melydia (The Torah Codes)
24. melydia (Lodestone Book 2: The World of Ice and Stars)
25. melydia (The Sandalwood Tree)
26. melydia (The Demon Queen and the Locksmith)
27. melydia (The Hunger Games)
28. jama’s alphabet soup (The Absolute Value of Mike)
29. Mental multivitamin (Pitch Uncertain)
30. Mental multivitamin (The Catcher in the Rye)
31. Sarah Reads Too Much (This is Where I Leave You)
32. Sarah Reads Too Much (A Single Man)
33. Hope (World War II Diary)
34. Lazygal (Carney’s House Party/Winona’s Pony Cart)
35. Lazygal (Legend)
36. Lazygal (Angel)
37. Lazygal (Faithful)
38. Lazygal (The Upright Piano Player)
39. Lazygal (Gentlemen of the Road)
40. Megan @ Leafing Through Life (Joy for Beginners)
41. Amy Reads (Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor)
42. Swapna (All Mortal Flesh & I Shall Not Want)
43. Swapna (Come and Find Me)
44. Swapna (The Jefferson Key)
45. Swapna (Joy for Beginners)
46. Swapna (Grace Interrupted)
47. Swapna (Chasing Aphrodite)
48. Girl Detective (Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse)
49. Girl Detective (Unwritten v. 3 GN)
50. Girl Detective (Fables v. 15 Rose Red)
51. Becky (China Cry by Nora Lam)
52. Becky (How Huge the Night)
53. Becky (Note to Self by Joe Thorn)
54. Bluerose’s Heart(The Friendship Doll)
55. Becky (Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier)
56. Becky (The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun)
57. Becky (The Cat Who Turned On and Off by Lilian Jackson Braun)
58. Becky (Three at Wolfe’s Door by Rex Stout)
59. Becky (Death of a Doxy by Rex Stout)
60. aloi / guiltlessreading (Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco)
61. Becky (Rage by Jackie Morse Kessler)
62. Jezebel Lee @ Jez’s Bookcase
63. Ruth (Flies on the Butter, Birds Without Wings)
64. Bart’s Bookshelf (Moon Over Soho)
65. Ruth (Tropical Fish and two books on writing)
66. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Physik)
67. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Queste)
68. Melissa Wiley (I Want My Hat Back)
69. Laughing (Bloodroot)
70. Lisa (Godless)
71. Woman of the House (Tuesday Club Murders by Agatha Christie)
72. Beckie@ByTheBook (Things Left Unspoken)
73. Beckie@ByTheBook (My Foolish Heart)
74. Diary of an Eccentric (When We Danced on Water)

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5 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: June 11, 2010

  1. Expecting a fairly fluffy historical romance, I was pleasantly surprised by a gripping story that wouldn’t let me stop turning pages.

    Hope you’ll stop by and read my review of Rosslyn Elliott’s Fairer than Morning!

    Cindy at Cindy’s Book Club

  2. I’ve been missing this for what seems like ever due to just crazy hecticness in life. Back this week to share a new favorite book and author 🙂

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