Saturday Review of Books: February 9, 2013

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn’t get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. When it came to letters and literature, Madeleine championed a virtue that had fallen out of esteem: namely, clarity.” ~The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

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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.

1. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (Wild Pitches)
2. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Valentine’s Day picture books)
3. Katy@ BooksYALove (Cinders & Sapphires)
4. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Abe Lincoln’s Dream)
5. Carrie @ Wholesome Womanhood (Blog At Home Mom)
6. Shonya @ Learning How Much I Don’t Know (King Alfred’s English)
7. Becky (Jesus Nothing = Everything)
8. Becky (Bride in the Bargain)
9. Becky (One Minute After You Die)
10. Becky (New Home for Lily)
11. Becky (The Beatles, God, and the Bible)
12. Becky (Kilmeny of the Orchard)
13. Becky (Victoria Rebels)
14. Becky (Clouds of Witness)
15. Becky (Miss Billy)
16. Becky (The Cape Cod Mystery)
17. Becky (Anne of Avonlea)
18. georgianne (Trusting God Even When Life Hurts)
19. SuziQoregon @Whimpulsive (Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned)
20. SuziQoregon @Whimpulsive (Burning for Revenge)
21. Barbara H. (West From Home, Laura Ingalls Wilder)
22. JoAnne @ The Fairytale Nerd (The Edge of Never by JA Redmerski)
23. JoAnne @ The Fairytale Nerd (Thoughtless by SC Stephens)
24. Beth@Weavings (Peter Duck)
25. Hope (The Marriage of Elinor – Victorian Novel)
26. Glynn (A Week in the Life of Corinth)
27. Thoughts of Joy (The Bat)
28. Thoughts of Joy (The Whistling Season)
29. Thoughts of Joy (Lamb)
30. Lazygal (Crash)
31. Lazygal (The Burn Palace)
32. Lazygal (The Tragedy Paper)
33. Lazygal (Dualed)
34. Lazygal (Notes from Ghost Town)
35. Lazygal (The Love Song of Jonny Valentine)
36. Lazygal (Vampire in the Lemon Grove)
37. Lazygal (S.E.C.R.E.T.)
38. Lazygal (The Rithmatist)
39. Lazygal (Death, Dickinson and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia)
40. Lazygal (Dark Companion)
41. Lazygal (Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock)
42. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Sarai)
43. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Home Front)
44. Girl Detective (The Intuitionist)
45. Carol in Oregon (Les Mis Quotes)
46. Annie Kate (7 Tipping Points that Saved the World)
47. Guiltless Reading (The Marriage Mistake)
48. Guiltless Reading (Hollywood Buckaroo)
49. Amber Stults (The Fate of Mercy Alban)
50. Becky (Comforts from Romans)
51. Joseph R. @ Zombie Parents Guide (The Last Crusade)

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4 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: February 9, 2013

  1. Just a couple of days until pitchers and catchers report, therefore I have reviewed a baseball book! Also, it’s from Dirk Hayhurst who is awesome.

  2. Mix one part Cinderella, one part Downton Abbey, and one part dysfunctional pre-WW One upper-upper-class British family for this first book in the At Somerton young adult series, Cinders & Sapphires by Leila Rasheed!

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