Saturday Review of Books: October 21, 2006

“The covers of this book are too far apart.” –Ambrose Bierce

Autumn readers and reviewers, welcome. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re reading or a book you’ve read. 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.

Now post a link here 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.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking. Visit Semicolon’s Amazon Store for more great book recommendations.

1. MFS (The Intellectual Devotional)
2. Susan (Harriet Hume)
3. boliyou (What Jesus Meant)
4. Denise (The Birth House)
5. Will Duquette (Ender\’s Shadow)
6. Brenda N (Inklings/Expectations)
7. Carrie (The Rescuers)
8. Miss Erin (The End)
9. Carrie K. (Straight Up)
10. Jen Robinson (Holbrook)
11. Carol (Imitation of Christ)
12. At A Hen\’s Pace (Sigrid Undset\’s Gunnar\’s Daughter)
13. Jennifer (Dreaming in Cuban)
14. Cathy (The Giver and others)
15. Patti (The Disadvantages of Being Educated
16. Isabella (The Dodecahedron)
17. Jennifer, Snapshot (Wishing on Dandelions)
18. MotherReader (Crossing the Wire)
19. Cindy Swanson
20. Chalkboard (Cross X)

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13 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: October 21, 2006

  1. Oh, Sherry! It happened again. Ergh. Will you delete the “extra”? Enjoy a wonderful weekend.

    Oh, my book is one I stumbled on last Sunday. It’s a wonderful everyday book — not unlike A Book of Days for the Literary Year. Perfect for the nightstand; the reader-thinker-autodidact learns something new daily.

    Best regards.

    Melissa

  2. I loved these two books. They made me want to live in the book and take part in their lives. They take place in 1960s Oxford, just after C.S. Lewis has passed away. The main characters were his students.

    I have a few other book ramblings in the beginning of the post, the review of these two books is in the final couple paragraphs so I could devote more time to them.

  3. Hi Sherry,

    Not much time for reviewing this week, what with the Cybils and all. But I did post a review of Holbrook: A Lizard’s Tale, and upcoming middle grade novel by Bonny Becker.

  4. Sherry, you inspired me, with your review of Kristin Lavransdatter, to pull out–and almost reread!–Gunnar’s Daughter, by the same author. Both my husband and I had loved it, after KL. It’s quite a book.

  5. My want-to-read list is getting longer and longer, thanks to the Saturday Review! Thanks for doing this.

  6. The blog entry I’ve linked is the third I’ve posted today from the book “The Disadvantages of Being Educated.” Unfortunately I can’t say things nearly as well as Nock to feel I can do his thoughts justice to “review” them. So my blog entries contain mostly quotes.

  7. This is just a little bit about a wonderful book recently nominated for the Governot General’s Award (Canada). I still hope to write a fuller review, but this is a nice little taste, I think.

  8. Not really reviews in the strictest sense of the word, but I reported on my interviews with Liz Curtis Higgs and Lisa Samson about “Embrace Grace” and “Straight Up.”

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