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.
11 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: March 17, 2007”
This book is a sort of scientific biography. It was a fun and interesting read.
A new Victorian author for me–the first book I’ve read by Elizabeth Gaskell
Not quite a book post. I hope poetry counts as well.
I hope the URL comes through – this is the first time I’ve tried, though I’ve been enjoying your blog and looking at book-links for a few months. The book I mentioned is about the experience of being a voracious reader.
And I’m sorry, I didn’t add the name of the book in parentheses. It’s “The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop.”
Thanks for doing this! It’s a great idea!
This is a great psychological novel about how an innocent man blunders his way into becoming the only suspect in his wife’s murder. It was Highsmith’s third novel and one of her best.
Argh, screwed up my first linkage. Should I have waited until next Sat. to post, anyway?
The book was the 1924 Newbery winner, The Dark Frigate. If you like Patrick O’Brian, you might like The Dark Frigate. 🙂
Sandy: I fixed it. Now’s fine, and I would really like to join in your Newbery Project. I’m on a blog break right now until Easter, but afterwards I’ll email you about joining in.
Perfecting Kate by Tamara Leigh is genre-bursting chick-lit. Enjoy!
Thank you for including my post, not so much a review as heartbroken sobbing.
This book is a sort of scientific biography. It was a fun and interesting read.
A new Victorian author for me–the first book I’ve read by Elizabeth Gaskell
Not quite a book post. I hope poetry counts as well.
I hope the URL comes through – this is the first time I’ve tried, though I’ve been enjoying your blog and looking at book-links for a few months. The book I mentioned is about the experience of being a voracious reader.
And I’m sorry, I didn’t add the name of the book in parentheses. It’s “The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop.”
Thanks for doing this! It’s a great idea!
This is a great psychological novel about how an innocent man blunders his way into becoming the only suspect in his wife’s murder. It was Highsmith’s third novel and one of her best.
Argh, screwed up my first linkage. Should I have waited until next Sat. to post, anyway?
The book was the 1924 Newbery winner, The Dark Frigate. If you like Patrick O’Brian, you might like The Dark Frigate. 🙂
Sandy: I fixed it. Now’s fine, and I would really like to join in your Newbery Project. I’m on a blog break right now until Easter, but afterwards I’ll email you about joining in.
Perfecting Kate by Tamara Leigh is genre-bursting chick-lit. Enjoy!
Thank you for including my post, not so much a review as heartbroken sobbing.