Saturday Review of Books: March 31, 2012

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ~Italo Calvino

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Welcome 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. Hope (Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers)
2. Becky (Over Sea, Under Stone)
3. Becky (Cat of a Different Color)
4. Becky (Young Fredle)
5. the Ink Slinger (Generation)
6. Becky (America’s Doll House)
7. Becky (Six Days in October)
8. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (Listen, America!)
9. Thoughts of Joy (Gone Girl)
10. Thoughts of Joy (Crush)
11. Thoughts of Joy (Carry Me Home)
12. Diane (Horns)
13. Green Mushroom (The Hobbit)
14. JoAnne @ The Fairytale Nerd (The Selection)
15. Becky (Gospel-Centered Discipleship)
16. SuziQoregon@ Whimpulsive (Elegy for Eddie)
17. SuziQoregon@ Whimpulsive (The Dispatcher)
18. Anne (Where Things Come Back)
19. Barbara H. (In Every Heartbeat thoughts about romance in Christian fiction)
20. Mental multivitamin (March:Reading life review)
21. Robin Ryle (The Flight of Gemma Hardy)
22. Amanda @Dead White Guys (The Three Musketeers)
23. Josh (Can a Woman Write a Good Book about Godly Manhood?)
24. Bonnie (Ballet’s Magic Kingdom)
25. Beth@Weavings (Reading Journal:The Three Musketeers & More)
26. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Close to Famous)
27. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (The Street Sweeper)
28. Donovan @ Where Pen Meets Paper (The Shipping News)
29. Upside Down B (The Robber Bride)
30. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Catching Fire)
31. Benjie @ Book ‘Em Benj-O (Death Splits a Hair)
32. Benjie @ Book ‘Em Benj-O (Why Church Matters)
33. Nicola (Dante’s Inferno: The Graphic Novel)
34. Nicola (Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll, vol. 2)
35. Nicola (Story of the Titanic (DK Publishing))
36. Nicola (Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks)
37. Nicola (The Serial Killer Whisperer by Pete Earley)
38. Nicola (MAOH: Juvenile Remix, vol.9)
39. Sarah Reads Too Much (Oliver Twist)
40. Graham @ My Book Year (Alone in Berlin)
41. Lazygal (Into the Darkest Corner)
42. Lazygal (The Innocents)
43. Lazygal (The Red House)
44. Lazygal (The Last Princess)
45. Hope (Books that Followed Me Home)
46. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (The Three Colonels)
47. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Breaking Stalin’s Nose)
48. The Girl @ Diary of an Eccentric (Loser)
49. Becky (Four Picture Books Including Too Princessy and No Go Sleep)
50. Becky (Penny and Her Song)
51. utter randomonium (Fire Baptized)
52. utter randomonium (The Professor and the Madman)
53. Laura @ Musings (The Worst Hard Time)
54. Susan @ Reading World
55. Annie Kate (Chasing the Sun)
56. Susan @ Reading World
57. Annie Kate (The Money Saving Mom’s Budget)
58. Debbie @ Exurbanis (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
59. Kidsmomo (A Monster Calls)
60. Ajoop @ on books! (Good Oil)

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5 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: March 31, 2012

  1. I went through my first audiobook, the Money Saving Mom’s Budget. The problem with audiobooks is that you can’t mark up the pages, put in little bookmarks, or look things up quickly. But it was still a great book.

    Chasing the Sun was a light read, but very inspiring and encouraging.

    Thanks for the link up.

  2. Whoops. Again, I forgot to put the titles of the books I read on my links. The two Reading World links go to The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand. I have to pay better attention to what I’m doing!

  3. Finally got a chance to participate! I usually read blogs on my phone while I ride the subway and I always curse myself for forgetting to take part in this, but this time I have an internet connection! Thanks for giving us a place to share!

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