Saturday Review of Books August 4, 2012

“I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.” ~L.M. Montgomery

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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.

8 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books August 4, 2012

  1. Linked to my review of Anthony Esolen’s Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, a top contender for the best piece of non-fiction I’ve read all year.

  2. Good morning readers! I had a good reading week with a simple lovely book I re-read from girlhood, Fifteen by Beverly Cleary, and a new, complex modern book, Vestments by John Reimringer.

  3. Like Carol, I, too, am home alone. House and yards look great. Ten miles on the bike and a shower behind me. Uninterrupted time to read book posts and, well, grade some math papers. (*smile*)

    As always, thanks for hosting, Sherry.

    Melissa

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