Saturday Review of Books: February 3, 2007

Posted by Sherry on Feb 3, 2007 in Saturday Reviews |

“And for you, writer of that soul-inspiring work of colossal brilliance, I urge you to forget safety and write, headlong into the bleak and terrifying unknown.
And send us a postcard.” —Mick Silva at Your Writer’s Group

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.

1. Carrie (The Treasure Principle)
2. 3M (Peace Like a River)
3. Catriona (The End of the Spear)
4. Lorna (Visioneering)
5. Allison (Living by Fiction)
6. SFP (The Street of Crocodiles)
7. Sage (for one day more)
8. MFS (Three chillingly contemporary novels)
9. Kevin Stilley (Till We Have Faces)
10. Lisa (Inheritance of Loss)
11. Lisa (Empire of the Sun)
12. Krakovianka (book summary for January)
13. Laura (Reflex)
14. violet (How You Leave Them Feeling)

15. Carrie K. (Education of a Wandering Man)
16. ChristineMM (Chapter After Chapter)
17. At A Hen\’s Pace (Gilead)
18. Shauna (The Enchanted Castle)
19. Miss Erin (East)
20. MotherReader (Boyfriend List and Boy Book)
21. DominionFamily ( Favorite Family Read Alouds)
22. Joy (Brother Odd)
23. JustOneMoreBook (Little Squarehead)
24. Jen Robinson (Ivy and Bean)
25. HeidiJane (Woman in White)
26. Nyssaneala (Mrs. Dalloway)
27. Amy (Amy and Isabelle)
28. Maggie (Waltzing at the Piggly-Wiggly)

29. RicMama (Flannery O\’Connor)
30. Literary Feline (Whose Body?)
31. Literary Feline (Catch-22)
32. Eileen (The Secret Life of Becky Miller)
33. Denise (Garbage Land)
34. Beth (Better than Life)
35. Alyssa (Oddly Enough)
36. Lazygal (The Titan\’s Curse)
37. Nina (History Picture Books
38. coffeeteabooksme(Bless the Lord)
39. RicMama (Pearl S. Buck)
40. Carl V. (Diamonds Are Forever)
41. RicMama (The Child Who Never Grew)

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking.

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19 Comments

Carrie says:

2/3/2007 at 12:34 am

A copy of The Treasure Principle was given to every family in our church a few weeks back. I got around to reading it this week.
3M says:

2/3/2007 at 1:06 am

I also reviewed the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane–DiCamillo, The Birds–Aristophanes, and The Black Pearl–O’Dell this week. Check them out!

3mbooklist.blogspot.com
3mchat.blogspot.com
3mreviews.blogspot.com
Allison says:

2/3/2007 at 2:30 am

Just a collection of quotes and a few thoughts on the latest Annie Dillard read.
MFS says:

2/3/2007 at 9:33 am

I couldn’t decide which entry to link; I was torn between the one in the widget and my Shrew post:

http://mentalmultivitamin.blogspot.com/2007/01/oddly-tender.html

Enjoy an awesome weekend, Sherry.

Melissa
Lisa Gray says:

2/3/2007 at 10:21 am

I reviewed The Inheritance of Loss (spoilers in the quotes I chose, so don’t read those if you don’t want to know) and The Empire of the Sun.

Thanks again for this!
Karen/Krakovianka says:

2/3/2007 at 10:22 am

My post this week is just a brief overview for Janary, with links to more detailed discussion of some books.
Laura D. says:

2/3/2007 at 10:34 am

It’s a mystery by Dick Francis for me this week – I’m becoming addicted to them, I think.
Carrie K. says:

2/3/2007 at 10:54 am

I talked about Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour this week.
Joy says:

2/3/2007 at 2:01 pm

Hi! I just wanted to thank you again for your help with Mister Linky; he’s working just great now. It’s so much fun seeing new participants appear.

Happy Reading!
Andrea -- JustOneMoreBook.com says:

2/3/2007 at 2:39 pm

I’ve linked to our conversation about “Little Squarehead”, a book about diversity, bullying and finding solutions using strengths we didn’t know we had.

Andrea
Jen Robinson says:

2/3/2007 at 3:03 pm

This Saturday Review of Books seems to get more popular every week. I linked to a review of the upcoming installment of the Ivy and Bean series, a series for early readers that I’ve recently discovered. Have a great weekend!
Amy says:

2/3/2007 at 5:28 pm

Hi Sherry,
Thanks for the link. I read and enjoy your blog regularly!
Literary Feline says:

2/3/2007 at 6:53 pm

I actually wrote about three this week and linked two. I hope that’s okay, Sherry. The two I linked are Catch-22 and Whose Body? I’m off to see what everyone else has to say about their reading this week!
Eileen says:

2/3/2007 at 7:21 pm

I’m not good at reviewing but I did my best!
Nina says:

2/4/2007 at 2:33 pm

I linked to three American history picture books by James Cross Giblin. I would love suggestions for more American history picture books.
Nina says:

2/4/2007 at 5:14 pm

Sherry, In the light of reading Becky’s post about truth in non fiction picture books, I am really embarrassed about my meager contribution to this week’s review. I am new to home schooling and have not thought about the whole issue of fact in history books. I like many assumed that if it is published someone is demanding accurate storytelling. If it is possible would you mind removing me post. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Lynn says:

2/5/2007 at 12:46 am

I just want to say thank you for a great site. I thoroughly enjoy it!!
Carl V. says:

2/5/2007 at 7:19 pm

Yes indeed, ANOTHER Bond book! Can’t help it, I’m devouring these like candy.
maggie says:

2/10/2007 at 11:52 pm

Thanks for doing this! It’s Kewl! ;D