“Stories . . . really can influence you. If you read the Twilight novels once a month for a year, I think you’d be a different human afterward—and not a sparkly one. Stories are like catechisms, but they’re catechisms for your impulses, they’re catechisms with flesh on.†~N.D. Wilson
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.
Linked to my review of Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon – a haunting, tragic, and thought-provoking story about one man’s battle with his own intelligence.
Thanks for hosting this each week, Sherry.
Good morning, readers! As you can see, I haven’t visited in a few weeks. I’m thoroughly enjoyed the readalong I’m leading, Summer of Shelf Discovery, for which there are few rules and anybody can join, so please check it out: http://www.girldetective.net/?p=4467
Some of the books from childhood are good, some are great, some are terrible, but it’s interesting to see how I can’t predict which till I re-read as an adult.
I just found your page, and am going to have to spend a bit of time browsing through the older book reviews. I’m a homeschooling mother, and I often write reviews about the books that my children and I read together. I hope its okay if I link to a few of my reviews here from time to time.
Oh dear, what a lot of wonderful books are listed here already! Some I’ve read, and I’m curious to see what people have to say about LIttle Britches and Created to be His Help Meet.
I linked a humorous philosophy book by Peter Kreeft, The Best Things in Life. It’s very insightful on many levels, but has a fundamental problem.
Loved Tim Challies’s review of Created to be His Help Meet! It’s #70 in the linky list, and worth reading.