Saturday Review of Books: October 28, 2006

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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. —Holbrook Jackson

Those of us in the U.S. who switch from Daylight Saving Time back to Standard TIme have an extra hour tonight for reading. Post your suggestions and reviews. Then, visit everyone else’s.

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. Sherry (When We Were Orphans by Ishiguro)
2. Jennifer, Snapshot (Whole Truth Eating Guide)
3. Steven (The Road)
4. Laurie (The Complete Stories by Dorothy Sayers and The Trilogy by Calvin Miller)
5. MFS (On the nightstand)
6. Carrie
7. violet (Redeemed)
8. Denise (Crocodile Soup)		 9. Cindy (America Alone by Mark Steyn)
10. Kathryn (You Know Me Al)
11. Diana (Peter Carey\’s My Life as a Fake)
12. Cathy (Peter Pan)
13. Carrie (Spindle\’s End)
14. Parableman (Thinking About God)
15. Will Duquette (Thursday Next)
16. Happy Housewife (The Woman in White)		 17. Jen Robinson (Gilda Joyce)
18. Laura (Thirteen Moons)
19. Gail (I, Freddy)
20. Patti (Teacher in America)
21. MotherReader (If Not For The Cat)
22. Mira (Every Mother Is A Daughter)
23. JustOneMoreBook (Ben\’s Trumpet)

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Related links:

Mark Steyn Online, where you can get a copy of his book, America Alone and link to a two part interview he did with Michelle Malkin.

Guardian article on Kazo Ishiguro’s life and novels.

More reviews of The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

17 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: October 28, 2006”

  1. Dear Sherry,

    Per your request, a link. I’m not much for self-advertisement so I don’t do this kind of thing often. But thank you for asking. I hadn’t thought of it as a means of increasing readership of what is rapidly becoming my favorite book of recent days.

    shalom,

    Steven

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  6. Blogger isn’t letting me post (again), but I’ll try to get a link up to the review itself sometime this weekend.

    This week I’m steering people toward a tragicomic classic from early last century, that was a big hit then and just keeps finding more fans, year after year. In addition to being a great baseball player story, it’s a great anti-romance (the big lug thinks he’s a great catch and nobody’s fool, which gets him into all sorts of trouble).

  7. My rewiew for this week was actually written last Saturday but I’m stickin’ it on anyway as it’s been a slow reading week (having introduced a male child to the world earlier on). Has anyone else read anything by McKinley before?

  9. Hey, Sherry.

    I left a link earlier this morning, but now the “widget” doesn’t seem to be working.

    Hey, I saw your post on “Lost.” Master and I also see Desmond as some sort of mystic, but we share your concern that the cast is beginning to sprawl untidily.

    Best regards.

    Melissa

  11. Sherry, I’m so pathetic I messed up the link the first time (#18), but re-did it properly the second time (#19). I’m so sorry!

  12. I’ve typed up two blog entries on this book. So anyone interested in reading more from Teacher in America also ought to check out this entry: http://hobbits8.com/Patti/?p=66

    Thanks for doing this, Sherry!

    That’s an interesting comment that Steven made (first post). I always think that any books that I really like are what someone else would like and so that’s always my point in telling about books i enjoy….to increase readership of a good/great book.

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