“Every human experience is a life in search of a narrative. This is not simply because it strives to discover a pattern to cope with the experience of chaos and confusion. It is also because each human life is always already an implicit story. Our very finitude constitutes us as beings who, to put it baldly, are born at the beginning and die at the end.”, Richard Kearney, “On Stories”, Routledge, 2001
Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. 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.
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A couple of friends of mine dared me to read a Karen Kingsbury book and I finally got around to doing so. Having ditched the whole “Christian romance” fiction quite some time ago I agreed to give Kingsbury a try. It drove me insane. Those books are such a waste of time!
“Nathan Coulter” wasn’t what I was expecting, but that’s not Wendell Berry’s fault, and I will be reading more of his books.
Have really enjoyed reading your lists over the past few days – bloggy reading lists, your blogging resolutions and books you read in 2006. Looking forward to another year of great reading!
I had a lot of reviews this week, it was hard to decide which one to pick. But Clementine is a great book.
Decided I should give Eragon a try before letting the kids read it, just in case the movie was worth going to see. Oh, well.
I just found your blog and I’m enjoying it! Happy New Year!
I picked up a Dashiell Hammett volume on a whim from the library– great fun.
This is my first time joining Saturday reviews… I followed a link from DevasT. What a great idea!
Hi! I found you through Reading Matters. What a great idea. Thank you.
And…oops! on the address. #16 Joy doesn’t work. Sorry.
Mine’s in!