Saturday Review of Books: February 4, 2012

“After the work is read, attention must be given. This is the time for serious reflection that goes beyond the act of good reading to the broader acts of good living.” ~~James W. Sire

SatReviewbuttonWelcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. 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 link to your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Then on Friday night/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. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union)
2. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (Good News to the Poor)
3. the Ink Slinger (Black Hawk Down)
4. Hope (Hell’s Guest – WWII book)
5. Girl in Translation@ Nudging the Universe
6. Glynn (A Pair of Blue Eyes)
7. JoAnne@The Fairytale Nerd (Legend)
8. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Darth Paper Strikes Back)
9. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Anne of GG adaptation)
10. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Yucky Worms)
11. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Read Aloud Thursday)
12. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (This Week in Books)
13. Barbara H. (Rilla of Ingleside)
14. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Beyond Molasses Creek)
15. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Not In The Heart)
16. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Everything Romance)
17. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Pieces of Light)
18. Becky (In the Garden of Beasts)
19. Becky (5 Board Books about the 5 Senses)
20. Becky (My Brother’s Shadow)
21. Becky (A Million Suns)
22. Becky (Double Star)
23. Becky (Door Into Summer)
24. Becky (The Pupper Masters)
25. Beth@Weavings(Reading Journal – Love on the Line & Who Get’s the Drumstick?)
26. SuziQoregon@ Whimpulsive (Start Shooting)
27. SuziQoregon@ Whimpulsive (The Buddha in the Attic)
28. SuziQoregon@ Whimpulsive (Pronto)
29. Collateral Bloggage (The Passage)
30. Collateral Bloggage (Batting Stance Guy)
31. Book Addict (Chopsticks)
32. Thoughts of Joy (Chasing Windmills)
33. Thoughts of Joy (The A.B.C. Murders)
34. Patricia (11 from january)
35. Lazygal (Zombie)
36. Lazygal (The False Prince)
37. Lazygal (The Fault in Our Stars)
38. Lazygal (Pink Smog)
39. Lazygal (Game Changers)
40. Lazygal (Bad Apple)
41. Lazygal (Pilgrims Don’t Wear Pink)
42. Lazygal (Illuminate)
43. Lazygal (Hearts of Darkness)
44. Lazygal (The Downside of Being Charlie)
45. Lazygal (Storm Makers)
46. Lazygal (Starters)
47. Lazygal (If Only)
48. Lazygal (The Cabinet of Earths)
49. Lazygal (Welcome Caller, This is Chloe)
50. Lazygal (The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom)
51. Lazygal (Blood on the Moon)
52. Mental multivitamin (On the nightstand)
53. Becky (Time for Stars)
54. Alice@Supratentorial(Confessions of a Prairie Bitch)
55. DebD (The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains)
56. Sarah Reads Too Much (The Color Purple)
57. Girl Detective (Sweet Tooth GN 4 Endangered Species)
58. S. Krishna’s Books (The Devil’s Bones)
59. Girl Detective (The Unwritten GN 5 On To Genesis)
60. Girl Detective (The Sisters Brothers)
61. S. Krishna’s Books (A Wrinkle in Time)
62. S. Krishna’s Books (The Legacy of Eden)
63. S. Krishna’s Books (Home Front)
64. S. Krishna’s Books (The Uncoupling)
65. S. Krishna’s Books (The Thirteen Hallows)
66. Debbie @ Exurbanis (Dog in Boots)
67. Debbie @ Exurbanis (The Market Square Dog)
68. Debbie @ Exurbanis (Giraffe and Bird)
69. Debbie @ Exurbanis (I Want My Hat Back)
70. Debbie @ Exurbanis (Coyote Sings to the Moon)
71. utter randomonium (The Help)
72. utter randomonium (The Book of Lost Things)
73. Andrew @ Where Pen Meets Paper (Damned)
74. Jules Book Reviews (The Colony of Unrequited Dreams)
75. Jules Book Reviews (Anil’s Ghost)
76. Jules Book Reviews (Transitions)
77. Jules Book Reviews (Books That Followed Me Home)
78. Jules Book Reviews (Selected Short Stories – Virginia Woolf)
79. Jules Book Reviews (A Long, Long Way)
80. Jules Book Reviews (January Wrapup)
81. Carol in Oregon (Books and Food)
82. Colleen @ Books in the City (O Come Ye Back to Ireland))
83. Colleen @ Books in the City (150 Pounds)
84. the Ink Slinger (On the Bookshelf III)
85. Nicola (The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby)
86. Nicola (Irena’s Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughan)
87. Nicola (The Yellow House Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner)
88. Nicola (Jellaby: Monster in the City by Kean Soo)
89. Nicola (Shot at Dawn by John Wilson)
90. Nicola (Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King)
91. Nicola (Jellaby by Kean Soo)
92. Becky (Cinder)
93. Quieted Waters (Night by Elie Wiesel)
94. BooksYALove (Eleventh Plague)
95. Becky (A Suitor for Jenny)
96. Becky (Crossed)
97. Amy@book musings
98. Melody @ Fingers and Prose (Weird Sisters)
99. Melody @ Fingers and Prose (Gilead)
100. Yvann @ Reading With Tea
101. aloi@guiltlessreading (High Fidelity)
102. Diary of an Eccentric (Summer of My German Soldier)
103. Diary of an Eccentric (Catalyst)
104. Diary of an Eccentric (Poems from the Frost Place)
105. Diary of an Eccentric (The Last Nude)
106. Gina @ Bookscount (Not Yet 40)
107. Top Books I’d Give to Someone That Doesn’t Read

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10 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: February 4, 2012

  1. My mother introduced me to your blog today and suggested I link to my book review. Love your site.

  2. I started reading Thomas Hardy’s poetry, and that led me to a romance novel he wrote in 1873. “Return of the Native” it’s not. Thanks for hosting, Sherry.

  3. A couple good graphic novels and an excellent novel. Good reading this week. Glynn, I really enjoyed Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd, and Patricia, was the pun intended on “wading” through Moby Dick? Happy reading, friends.

  4. Although my TBR list is growing faster than I would like it too, it’s been fun to discover new blogs and books! Thanks for the link up.

  5. Girl Detective…wading, haha! That one swam past me.

    I finished five books this week (the first five of 2012) but it will take more time than I have this morning to write thoughtful reviews of them. So I wrote a blog post on the reading life instead.

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