“My generation haven’t had criticism; they’ve had marketing.” —Paul Farley, The Guardian, April 2005
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.
21 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: February 17, 2007”
I bought read The Looking Glass Wars as a result of reading a review of it on one Saturday Review of Books. I can’t remember who it was that suggested it — but THANKS! I THOROUGHLY enjoyed it!
For me this week it was a classic, incredibly uplifting book on Acts by Lloyd-Jones, and the biography of a “nobody” – a strong, courageous woman who kept on doing the right thing and trusted God to provide for her and her children – written by her daughter.
It’s likely that Anthony Trollope’s Framley Parsonage will be my favorite book of 2007. This is a book I’d love to teach to a literature class.
I’m currently reading the short story collection “Space Lords” by the too little-known Cordwainer Smith.
I finished The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction by Kate Chopin this week.
I am trying to clear my shelves of library books that I want to recommend. I offer 3 quick recommnedations for picture books. All 3 are for ages 3-7. 3 down 90 more to go.
I posted my thoughts on Jane Austen’s Emma earlier this week, a book I wasn’t sure about in the beginning, but one I ended up really liking in the end.
This Saturday Review of Books has become a regular routine of mine on Saturday morning! Thank you!
Jennifer, our book group is reading The Worst Hard Time for our March meeting so I look forward to reading your review.
My books are two preschool books that I read for the preschool special education class I teach. Both books are very appropriate for very young children, with one being a board book.
I wrote this week about a philosophical book that I found fascinating.
Two classics I thoroughly enjoyed–Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and the fantastic, wonderful, outstanding To Kill a Mockingbird. I posted some favorite passages from each.
Happy Reading!
This week’s is not a recommendation, it’s more of a “here’s a book you really ought to avoid.”
I love having the opportunity to post reviews here! I actually stayed up late last night to finish mine. Thanks for providing this.
Back to Freedom and Dignity is vintage Francis Schaeffer.
Abraham’s Well, a fictional story about slavery, is a well-timed book, published, as it was, at the end of 2006 and on the eve of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. It’s also beautifully written. Those two things make it a worthwhile read in my books. Thanks again, Sherry, for giving us reviewers this platform.
Just wanted to thank you for a comment you made on your blog that turned me on to a great book! I recently finished Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen and Bajira Lovejoy when you suggested it in the course of your homeschool unit on Middle Eastern Studies. I had to get it via inter-library loan but I am sure glad I did. What a great cultural folktale from Iraq. A real pleasure too. Thanks for spurring me on!
I’ve enjoyed these Saturday Review posts before, and thought I’d join in the fun this week with my review of Lies Women Believe and The Truth That Sets Them Free. I fumbled, though, and didn’t get the book’s title on the list. I’m so sorry! Off to read through the list to find some new books to add to my “must read” list.
As a homekeeper I long to make our home a haven for my family. This book is helping to realize that.
Just reviewed Sandor Marai’s Embers, so thought I would share it with you!
I just found your blog today and I am really enjoying it. I look forward to reading all the reviews posted.
I just found this through a series of links. What fun! I love books and love talking about them.
I bought read The Looking Glass Wars as a result of reading a review of it on one Saturday Review of Books. I can’t remember who it was that suggested it — but THANKS! I THOROUGHLY enjoyed it!
For me this week it was a classic, incredibly uplifting book on Acts by Lloyd-Jones, and the biography of a “nobody” – a strong, courageous woman who kept on doing the right thing and trusted God to provide for her and her children – written by her daughter.
It’s likely that Anthony Trollope’s Framley Parsonage will be my favorite book of 2007. This is a book I’d love to teach to a literature class.
I’m currently reading the short story collection “Space Lords” by the too little-known Cordwainer Smith.
I finished The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction by Kate Chopin this week.
I am trying to clear my shelves of library books that I want to recommend. I offer 3 quick recommnedations for picture books. All 3 are for ages 3-7. 3 down 90 more to go.
I posted my thoughts on Jane Austen’s Emma earlier this week, a book I wasn’t sure about in the beginning, but one I ended up really liking in the end.
This Saturday Review of Books has become a regular routine of mine on Saturday morning! Thank you!
Jennifer, our book group is reading The Worst Hard Time for our March meeting so I look forward to reading your review.
My books are two preschool books that I read for the preschool special education class I teach. Both books are very appropriate for very young children, with one being a board book.
I wrote this week about a philosophical book that I found fascinating.
Two classics I thoroughly enjoyed–Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and the fantastic, wonderful, outstanding To Kill a Mockingbird. I posted some favorite passages from each.
Happy Reading!
This week’s is not a recommendation, it’s more of a “here’s a book you really ought to avoid.”
I love having the opportunity to post reviews here! I actually stayed up late last night to finish mine. Thanks for providing this.
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Back to Freedom and Dignity is vintage Francis Schaeffer.
Abraham’s Well, a fictional story about slavery, is a well-timed book, published, as it was, at the end of 2006 and on the eve of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. It’s also beautifully written. Those two things make it a worthwhile read in my books. Thanks again, Sherry, for giving us reviewers this platform.
Just wanted to thank you for a comment you made on your blog that turned me on to a great book! I recently finished Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen and Bajira Lovejoy when you suggested it in the course of your homeschool unit on Middle Eastern Studies. I had to get it via inter-library loan but I am sure glad I did. What a great cultural folktale from Iraq. A real pleasure too. Thanks for spurring me on!
I’ve enjoyed these Saturday Review posts before, and thought I’d join in the fun this week with my review of Lies Women Believe and The Truth That Sets Them Free. I fumbled, though, and didn’t get the book’s title on the list. I’m so sorry! Off to read through the list to find some new books to add to my “must read” list.
As a homekeeper I long to make our home a haven for my family. This book is helping to realize that.
Just reviewed Sandor Marai’s Embers, so thought I would share it with you!
I just found your blog today and I am really enjoying it. I look forward to reading all the reviews posted.
I just found this through a series of links. What fun! I love books and love talking about them.