Saturday Review of Books: March 10, 2012

“Good books are to the mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.” ~Horace Mann

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. the Ink Slinger (‘Salem’s Lot)
2. Becky (11/22/63)
3. Becky (Girl of Fire and Thorns)
4. Becky (The Running Dream)
5. Reading to Know (The Nature Principle)
6. Becky (Black Duck)
7. Reading to Know (The Gruffalo)
8. Reading to Know (The Search for Delicious))
9. Becky (Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition)
10. Becky (Wheels of Change)
11. JoAnne @ The Fairytale Nerd (Shadows: Lux Novella)
12. Reading to Know (Girls Uncovered)
13. Reading to Know (Surviving the Hindenburg))
14. Barbara H. (Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder)
15. Shonya (Frankenstein with my teens)
16. Amy@book musings (An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro)
17. SuziQoregon@ Whimpulsive (Blue Monday)
18. SuziQoregon@ Whimpulsive (Hail to the Chef)
19. Carrie @ Books & Movies (Half-Moon Investigations)
20. Collateral Bloggage (Speaker for the Dead)
21. Carol in Oregon (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
22. Beth@Weavings (Tanglewood Tales)
23. Beth@Weavings (The Doctor’s Lady)
24. Beth@Weavings (Reading Journal: Simplify, Chasing Mona Lisa and More)
25. Yvann @ Reading With Tea (The Dead of the Night)
26. Yvann @ Reading With Tea (Down Under)
27. Janet @ Across the Page (The Comstocks of Cornell)
28. Laura @ Musings (The Other Elizabeth Taylor)
29. Lazygal (New)
30. Lazygal (It’s Our Prom)
31. Lazygal (The New Republic)
32. Lazygal (I Am Forbidden)
33. Lazygal (Money Boy)
34. Lazygal (Three Times Lucky)
35. Sarah Reads Too Much (Pride and Prejudice)
36. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Rose of Winslow Street)
37. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Downtown Green)
38. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Search Committee)
39. Nicola (A Rare Titanic Family by Julie Hedgepeth Williams)
40. Nicola (Cinder by Marissa Meyer)
41. Nicola (The Secret World of Arrietty, Vol. 2)
42. Nicola (Zig and Wikki in The Cow by Nadja Spiegelman)
43. Nicola (Superpowered Pony by Sarah Hines Stephens)
44. Nicola (Torso: A True Crime Graphic Novel by Brian Michael Bendis)
45. Nicola (The Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt by Elizabeth Payne)
46. SFP (The Sense of an Ending)
47. Alice@Supratentorial(Four mini-reviews)
48. Alice@Supratentorial(Before I Go to Sleep)
49. Girl Detective (Best American Comics 2011)
50. Girl Detective (The Sense of an Ending)
51. Girl Detective (Bleak House readalong w2)
52. Quieted Waters (Work Matters by Tom Nelson)
53. Colleen@ Books in the City (I’ve Got Your Number)
54. JHS (Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult GIVEAWAY)
55. JHS (The Garden Intrigue by Lauren Willig GIVEAWAY)
56. JHS (Walter’s Muse by Jean Davies Okimoto GIVEAWAY)
57. JHS (Delicacy by David Foenkinos GIVEAWAY)
58. Donovan & Andrew @ Where Pen Meets Paper (My Name Is Red)
59. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (The Illumination)
60. Becky (The Joy of Calvinism)
61. Becky (Understanding English Bible Translation)
62. Becky (Wonder by R.J. Palacio)
63. Leah(To Love Anew)
64. Andrew and Donovan @ Pen Meets Paper
65. Diary of an Eccentric (Notes From a Totally Lame Vampire)
66. Diary of an Eccentric (A Long Long Way)
67. Gina @ Bookscount (The Half Stitched Amish Quility Club)
68. Gina @ Bookscount (The Marriage Mailbox)
69. Annie Kate (Folks, This Ain’t Normal)
70. Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker and Realism

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8 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: March 10, 2012

  1. I had so much fun reading and discussing Frankenstein with my teens, I just had to share. I love it when they notice things I completely missed!

  2. Many SRB readers urged me to read To Say Nothing of the Dog, when I registered my approval of Three Men in a Boat. I finally got around to reading it and loved it.

    Does anyone else have a backlog of books to review? It’s more work to write a review than it is to pick up another book to read! Yikes!

  3. Good morning, readers! Good to “see” you again. Carol in Oregon, it’s a nice problem to have, isn’t it–too many books to read, too many things to write about. I had the same problem this week, and did a list instead: http://www.girldetective.net/?p=4353

    Over the years, I’ve realized that I want my reviews to be snapshots to tell people whether they want to read the book or not, not deep-analyses. Those happen in the comments.

    That said, my review of the 2011 comic collection took a long time.

  4. Thanks, as always, Sherry!

    This week I reviewed Work Matters by Tom Nelson. Pastor Nelson does a great job of helping working men and women understand how their Christian faith should impact their Monday-Friday work week.

  5. I am “not blogging” for Lent, so I have a huge number of books that will be begging for reviews as soon as Easter is past.

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