Saturday Review of Books: June 18, 2011

“In a good bookroom, you feel in some way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books —through your skin, without even opening them.”~Mark Twain

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. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes)
2. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Wordy Shipmates)
3. GretchenJoanna (A Long Long Time Ago & Essentially True)
4. Beth@Weavings (Raising Real Men)
5. Barbara H. (The Judgment; Mine Is the Night)
6. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (A Visit from the Goon Squad)
7. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (The Spirit of Food)
8. Cindy Swanson (Son of Hamas)
9. Graham @ My Book Year (The Tiger’s Wife)
10. Zee @ Notes from the North (Wintersmith)
11. Lazygal (The Apothocary)
12. Lazygal (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland…)
13. Lazygal (Secrets at Sea)
14. Janet (The Love Exchange: An Adventure in Prayer)
15. Sarah Reads Too Much – Carry Me Home
16. Sarah Reads Too Much – Ordinary Beauty
17. Beckie @ByTheBook (Lion of Babylon)
18. Beckie@ByTheBook (An Unlikely Suitor)
19. Amy Reads (Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor)
20. Amy Reads (Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi)
21. Carol in Oregon (Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure)
22. Carol in Oregon (Meter Means Measure)
23. Carol in Oregon (Wonderlust)
24. SmallWorld Reads (April/May reviews)
25. SmallWorld at Home (500 Writing Prompts for Kids)
26. Mental multivitamin (Pitch Uncertain)
27. Mental multivitamin (Somer summer reading notes, Item 2)
28. Europeanne (Marriage Matters)
29. Hope (Forgotten God by Francis Chan)
30. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Picture Book Biographies by David A. Adler)
31. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Can We Save the Tiger?)
32. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Summer reading picks)
33. Melissa @ Betty and Boo Chronicles (The Box)
34. Girl Detective (Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson)
35. Girl Detective (Finder: Voice GN)
36. Unbroken: A World War II Story of… (Library Hospital)
37. The Hollow (Library Hospital)
38. Sparkling Cyanide (Library Hospital)
39. Debbie Rodgers – Exurbanis.com (Radio Shangri-la)
40. Megan @ Leafing Through Life (Matched)
41. A Foodie Bibliophile in Wanderlust (A Monster Calls)
42. Melody @ Fingers & Prose (Townie)
43. Melody @ Fingers & Prose (If There is Something to Desire)
44. Becky (Clouds of Witness by Dorothy Sayers)
45. Becky (Fer-de-lance by Rex Stout)
46. Becky (Oscar Wilde and the Death of No Importance by Gyles Brandreth)
47. Becky (The Cat Who Played Brahms by Lilian Jackson Braun)
48. Becky (The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun)
49. Becky (Doggirl by Robin Brande)
50. Becky (Should I Share My Ice Cream by Mo Willems)
51. Becky (Slightly Invisible by Lauren Child)
52. Becky (How to Get a Job by me the Boss by Sally Lloyd Jones)
53. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Darkly Dreaming Dexter)
54. Lucybird’s Book Blog (The Earth Hums in B Flat)
55. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Dragon’s Pupils: The Sword Guest))
56. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
57. Yvann @ Reading, Fuelled By Tea (The Silent Sea)
58. Yvann @ Reading, Fuelled By Tea (Purgatory Road)
59. Diary of an Eccentric (The Storm at the Door)
60. Diary of an Eccentric (Next to Love)
61. LL(Serving Up the Harvest)
62. melydia (Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules)

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5 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: June 18, 2011

  1. This week, I finished Radio Shangri-la – What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth by Lisa Napoli. Very enjoyable, insightful.
    Thanks for the opportunity to link up here.

  2. Happy Saturday! 🙂

    My review is about “Son of Hamas,” the true story of a terrorist whose life was dramatically changed.

    One thing that makes me kind of sad about this meme is how few people reciprocate when I comment on their reviews. 🙁 I thought the point of a meme like this was to comment on other people’s blogs and in return, get comments, but it doesn’t seem to always work that way!

  3. Waaa…no review again this week. I *did* do a post about why a particular film adaptation stunk up the place (Percy Jackson), making sure to avoid just saying “they changed things!”

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