“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” ~Maya Angelou
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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the Ink Slinger
11/23/2012 at 6:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Linked to my reviews of Heinlein’s Starship Trooper’s (great) and Markus Zusak’s I Am the Messenger (not so great).
Barbara H.
11/23/2012 at 10:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Glynn
11/23/2012 at 11:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks for hosting, sherry.
Marijo Taverne
11/24/2012 at 1:08 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I had an opportunity to catch up on my blogging tonight, and thus linked up to seven new book reviews. Thanks for hosting this. I am in awe of how much you read.
Beckie Burnham
11/24/2012 at 8:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks Sherry!
Susan @ Reading World
11/24/2012 at 8:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Have a great Thanksgiving weekend. I’ve been “relaxing” so much I almost forgot it was Saturday–time for the Review of Books!
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11/24/2012 at 9:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
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