Saturday Review of Books: December 24, 2011

“If you have never said ‘Excuse me’ to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.” ~Sherri Chasin Calvo

Merry Christmas to all, and Happy Reading, too!

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.

7 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: December 24, 2011

  1. What an appropriate quote for me today/-my 7 year old dd fell out of (well, missed, actually) her chair this morning at breakfast because she was reading.
    Merry Christmas to you & yours!

  2. Accientally got turned around and posted these in last week’s, too. Connie Willis’ book has delightful stories, but even better are her list of recommended reading and viewing for Christmas!

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