“A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.” ~William Styron
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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Amy @ Hope Is the Word
3/1/2013 at 10:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I read this year’s Batchelder Award winner and loved it: http://www.hopeisthewordblog.com/2013/02/25/my-family-for-the-war-by-anne-c-voorhoeve/
Thanks for hosting, Sherry! I hope you’ve had a good week!
Janet
3/2/2013 at 5:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Yes, thanks for hosting. I desperately need a good novel to read after a spate of nonfiction — hoping to find one among the reviews today!
Beckie Burnham
3/2/2013 at 8:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks Sherry! Have a wonderful weekend.
Brenda
3/3/2013 at 12:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks for all the links. Hope you have a great week.