“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.” ~Anne Tyler
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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Girl Detective
2/1/2013 at 6:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Happy weekend, fellow readers! I have a wide range of books this week, and finally finished two long ones that I’ve been in the middle of for weeks.
the Ink Slinger
2/1/2013 at 6:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Linked to my review of P.D. James masterful novel The Children of Men.
Glynn
2/1/2013 at 10:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks for hosting, Sherry.
Shonya
2/2/2013 at 5:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks for the suggestion of the book My Hands Came Away Red. I devoured it quickly, enjoyed it, and keep thinking about it.