Saturday Review of Books: July 21, 2007

The dear good people don’t know how long it takes to learn to read. I’ve been at it eighty years, and can’t say yet that I’ve reached the goal.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re reading or a book you’ve read. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can just write your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Now post a link here 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.

1. Carrie (10 Authors I Would Ban)
2. Suzanne (The Glass Castle)
3. Suzanne (Harry Potter prediction)
4. MamaBlogga (Lost and Found)
5. Ron Reed (The BIg Fisherman)
6. Carol (Kristin Lavransdatter, II)
7. Steve (The Sea Wolf)
8. Sheila (Cold Sassy Tree)
9. Literary Feline (The Ghost Writer)
10. Sara (Table of Inwardness)
11. Stephen (All The Pretty Horses)
12. gautami tripathy (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
13. gautami tripathy (The Moon is Down)
14. Joy (Anansi Boys)
15. Heidijane (A Question of Belief)
16. Heidijane (Possessing the Secret of Joy)
17. Sage (Traver On Fishing)
18. SmallWorld (The Nazi Officer\’s Wife)
19. SmallWorld (A Thousand Splendid Suns)
20. coffeeteabooksandme (The Pantry, It\’s History and Uses)
21. Mindy Withrow (Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson)
22. 3M (Stardust)
23. 3M (Higher Power of Lucky)
24. 3M (The White Stag)
25. Becky (Leepike Ridge)
26. Becky (Masquerade)
27. Becky (Bad Tickets)
28. Becky (All The Other Things I Really Need to Know I Learned Watching Star Trek the Next Generation)
29. Becky (Among the Hidden)
30. Becky (Better Than Life)
31. Becky (Thorn In My Heart)
32. Emily (Rose Daughter)
33. violet (Your Doctor Said WHAT?)
34. Wendy (No Country For Old Men)
35. Melanie (Art Objects)
36. Semicolon (The Faraway Lurs)
37. Semicolon (Escape from Egypt)
38. Semicolon (The Turn of the Screw)
39. Semicolon (Loving WIll Shakespeare)
40. Semicolon (I Capture the Castle)
41. Laura (High Five & Hot Six)
42. Laura (Northanger Abbey)
43. Cathy (Walter Worried)
44. Cathy (A Thousand Splendid Suns)
45. John (Children of Men)
46. Nicola (At the Crossing-Places)
47. Nicola (Saving Fish from Drowning)
48. Sam Houston (Year of Wonders)
49. Sam Houston (Truck: A Love Story)
50. Petunia (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
51. Stephanie (O Pioneers)
52. raidergirl3(Arthur & George
53. Karen (Saturday Ian McEwan)
54. Tasses (1st SIX -all of them- Harry Potter Books)
55. Rhinoa (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
56. Wendy (Summer Crossing)
57. Stephanie(Vivaldi\’s Virgins)
58. Just One More Book! Podcast (The House that Crack Built)
59. Matt (Messenger of Truth)
60. Matt (The Blind Assassin)
61. Matt (Suite Francaise)
62. Arukiyomi (Paradigms in Conflict)
63. Arukiyomi (spiritual Power and Missions)
64. Dewey (Alias Grace)
65. DJ (Travels in the Scriptorium)
66. BChsMamaof3 (Night)
67. Debi (The Worst Hard Time)
68. pussreboots (Condominium)
69. Nymeth (A Study in Scarlet)
70. Nymeth (The Remains of the Day)
71. Nymeth (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince)
72. Nymeth (Obasan)
73. Chris@bookarama (The Secret Life of Lobsters) No really!
74. Chris@bookarama (The Queen of Babble in the Big City)
75. Becky (Gorilla, Gorilla)
76. Kelly (Billy Standish Was Here)
77. Kelly (My Latest Grievance)
78. Mo (Three Junes)
79. Verbivore (Rachel Cusk – Arlington Park)
80. Sarah (The Master of Verona)
81. Denny (Lost Horizon)
82. Darla D (Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky)
83. Darla D (Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
84. Darla D (The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman)
85. Heather (The 13th Demon)

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4 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: July 21, 2007

  1. Thank you, Sherry, for hosting SRB. This week I finished the second book of the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy in the Archer translation and received the first one in the mail in the newer Nunnally translation. Very seldom do I turn around and re-read an epic book, but I’m thinking about it this time.

  2. Sherry,

    Thanks for hosting yet another Saturday Review. Our submission this week is about a disturbing yet important children’s book broaching the subject of drugs and the destructive chain behind and before them.

    Curious to know what others think of this book,
    Andrea

  3. Just stumbled across your Sat. Review today…what a perfectly marvelous idea! Thank you so much for hosting this!

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