Saturday Review of Books: July 9, 2011

“The leader who intends to grow spiritually and intellectually will be reading constantly.” ~J. Oswald Chambers

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.

4 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: July 9, 2011

  1. I can see how one’s reading list can get out of control here. Thanks for hosting this, Sherry.

  2. Thanks again for hosting. I always enjoy going through the reviews even if I don’t participate.

  3. Thank you for hosting this. My TBR list is already unmanageable; I don’t know what I’m going to do if it gets much bigger (it seems for every book I read and check off the list, I add an average of five more!).

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