To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
~ Edmund Burke
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.
9 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: April 28, 2007”
I’ve added our conversation about the inspiring children’s book “Across the Alley”, by Richard Michelson and E.B.White, which, thru music and baseball, gorgeously handles issues of discrimination, understanding and friendship.
I hope you’ll check it out.
Thanks Sherry!
Andrea
Dragonwell Dead is the latest in the “Cozy Mystery” Tea Shop series. Light reading to relieve the burdens of the world!
Great list of books as always Sherry, thanks for doing this, this is one of my main sources of reviews!
I recommended two great books about music, one from early history and another about slave songs.
I’m hoping that my review of J. R. R. Tolkien’s _The Children of Húrin_ will be useful to parents of young Tolkien fans. It’s not for children!
This is the first time I’ve linked. Thanks for doing this! I reviewed Ngaio Marsh’s Night at the Vulcan.
Thanks for the link Sherry – just one small thing – there’s only one “l” in my name, not two ! (That’s my dad and his desire for me to be different!)
Comment to Fay – “The Children of Hurin” was never meant for children and I’m a little surprised that anyone would think that it was, given it’s a part of the greater “mythology” of Middle-Earth. Reading “CoH” is rather like reading the Pentateuch from the Old Testament – not to be done lightly.
Both of the books I reviewed this week were children’s books – A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck, was the wonderful 2001 Newbery award winner, and is better for somewhat older kids (10+).
I Can’t Stop! A Story about Tourette Syndrome, by Holly L. Niner, is aimed at yonger kids (maybe 6-12), though the illustrations and text describe kids that are around 12.
Return of the Guardian-King is the fourth and final bookin the Legends of the Guardian-King series by Karen Hancock, which was featured in the April Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour http://csffblogtour.com/.
I’ve added our conversation about the inspiring children’s book “Across the Alley”, by Richard Michelson and E.B.White, which, thru music and baseball, gorgeously handles issues of discrimination, understanding and friendship.
I hope you’ll check it out.
Thanks Sherry!
Andrea
Dragonwell Dead is the latest in the “Cozy Mystery” Tea Shop series. Light reading to relieve the burdens of the world!
Great list of books as always Sherry, thanks for doing this, this is one of my main sources of reviews!
I recommended two great books about music, one from early history and another about slave songs.
I’m hoping that my review of J. R. R. Tolkien’s _The Children of Húrin_ will be useful to parents of young Tolkien fans. It’s not for children!
This is the first time I’ve linked. Thanks for doing this! I reviewed Ngaio Marsh’s Night at the Vulcan.
Thanks for the link Sherry – just one small thing – there’s only one “l” in my name, not two ! (That’s my dad and his desire for me to be different!)
Comment to Fay – “The Children of Hurin” was never meant for children and I’m a little surprised that anyone would think that it was, given it’s a part of the greater “mythology” of Middle-Earth. Reading “CoH” is rather like reading the Pentateuch from the Old Testament – not to be done lightly.
Both of the books I reviewed this week were children’s books – A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck, was the wonderful 2001 Newbery award winner, and is better for somewhat older kids (10+).
I Can’t Stop! A Story about Tourette Syndrome, by Holly L. Niner, is aimed at yonger kids (maybe 6-12), though the illustrations and text describe kids that are around 12.
Return of the Guardian-King is the fourth and final bookin the Legends of the Guardian-King series by Karen Hancock, which was featured in the April Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour http://csffblogtour.com/.