“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ~C.S. Lewis
Sorry to be so late this week. I spent Friday evening and today all day at a high school debate tournament. It was an illuminating experience, but it made me late in posting the Saturday Review for the first time in over two years. I hope you’ll all enjoy this late edition of the Saturday Review of Books.
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.
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Barbara H.
11/3/2012 at 11:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m glad to see it whenever you can get to it.
aloi @guiltlessreading
11/3/2012 at 11:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Life happens! Hope you’re having a good weekend
Carol in Oregon
11/3/2012 at 11:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m glad all is well. We can wait. I was imagining a catastrophe, silly me. Thank you for your work. It has had a huge impact on my life.
Thoughts of Joy
11/4/2012 at 5:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
So glad to read all is well.
Glynn
11/4/2012 at 6:24 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks for hosting, Sherry – hope the tournament went well.
Alice@Supratentorial
11/4/2012 at 8:21 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Love the C.S. Lewis quote. I also wondered if there was something wrong, glad to hear that it’s a happy reason for being late. I got to judge at a high school speech and debate tournament last year and it was so much fun. Amazing talent.
Shonya
11/4/2012 at 6:42 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Late for the first time in two years? Impressive!! No worries here, and thanks for hosting–it’s always fun to read people’s reviews!
Ruth
11/9/2012 at 9:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oops, just realized I claimed I’d liked to five reviews and it was really only four. Hope nobody felt cheated.