Saturday Review of Books: August 11, 2007

A little before you go to sleep read something that is exquisite and worth remembering; and contemplate upon it till you fall asleep.”
Erasmus

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. Carol (Vanity Fair and Oliver Twist)
2. Steve (Fragile Things)
3. Carrie (The Swiss Family Robinson)
4. Carrie (Books I LOVE)
5. Tasses (The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel)
6. Suzanne (Children of Huren by JRR Tolkein)
7. Suzanne (Grendel by John Gardner)
8. Why Homeschool (The Captain by Jan de Hartog)
9. Carrie K. (One True Thing)
10. gautami tripathy (The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri)
11. gautami tripathy (To Sir, With Love)
12. Stephen (The Power and the Glory)
13. Laura (Watching the English)
14. Laura (The Optimist\’s Daughter)
15. Just One More Book (The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster)
16. Nina (The Sea Chest)
17. Jennifer, Snapshot (One Year Off)
18. Jennifer, Snapshot (C is for Caboose)
19. 5 Min. for Books (Woman in Red)
20. 5 Min. for Books (Little Red Book of Wisdom)
21. bookeywookey (In Cold Blood by Truman Capote)
22. Alasandra (The Dreams in The Witch House and Other Weird Stories)
23. Mo (A Story of Titles )
24. Queen of Carrots (The Once and Future King)
25. Mindy Withrow (A Thousand Splendid Suns)
26. Lauren@B&B (Toys Go Out)
27. Joy (A Long Way Gone)
28. SmallWorld (Mrs. Mike)
29. SmallWorld (The Scarlet Letter)
30. violet (The Cure)
31. DeputyHeadmistress (Bears, Boys, and History books)
32. Julie D. (The Interior Castle)
33. Becky (The Scribe)
34. Becky (Lady of High Regard)
35. Becky (Billy Creekmore)
36. Becky (Austenland)
37. Becky (Eclipse)
38. Becky (Animal Faces)
39. Becky (Life and Death of Adolf Hitler)
40. Becky (I Am Too absolutely small for school)
41. Becky (Specials)
42. Becky (Pepperland)
43. BeckyB (Paper Daughter)
44. BeckyB (Who will tuck me in tonight?)
45. BeckyB (17 things I\’m not allowed to do anymore)
46. BeckyB (oh no gotta go #2)
47. BeckyB (Orange Pear Apple Bear)
48. BeckyB (I love you always and forever)
49. Wendy (Coronary)
50. Wendy (The Great Fire)
51. Amy(Sinners and Saints)
52. Amy(Can\’t Wait to Get to Heaven)
53. Amy(The Blood of Flowers)
54. Cathy (The Four Seasons of Brambly Hedge)
55. Em (Pretty Tough)
56. Mama Squirrel (Homeschool Your Child for Free)
57. Valentina (Witch Baby)
58. Miss Erin (Twilight)
59. Miss Erin (The Wednesday Wars)
60. Miss Erin (The Hollywood Sisters)
61. Veronica (Fog Magic)
62. Framed (The Gods of Newport)
63. Framed (Night)
64. Framed (A Thousand Splendid Suns)
65. Sam Houston (Rats)
66. Framed (More Than You Know)
67. Sam Houston (The Tin Roof Blowdown)
68. Sandy D. (Maniac Magee)
69. Mo (So Sure of Death)
70. Nicola (New Moon)
71. Nicola (Monday Mourning)
72. Nicola (Gathering Blue)
73. Reader\’s Carousel (Thora and the Green-Sea Unicorn)
74. Lynne (Schindler\’s List)
75. Denny (Footsteps In The Dark)
76. Reader\’s Carousel (First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover)
77. Sycorax Pine (Black Swan Green)
78. 3M (Secret Life of Bees)
79. Bonnie Jacobs (One Thousand White Women)
80. Bonnie Jacobs (Speak)
81. Bonnie Jacobs (The Language of Threads)
82. Bonnie Jacobs (Point Last Seen)
83. Robert M. Lindsey (How to Photograph Cars)
84. Denny (Witch Wood)
85. Denny (GKC\’s “Robert Louis Stevenson”
86. Rob (Looking for Trouble)
87. Alasandra (The Androids Dream)
88. Jose

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12 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: August 11, 2007

  1. Sherry, I submitted my very short review of The Sea Chest. The book really resonated with many of my readers.

  2. Sherry, this has been a heavy writing summer for me, so not as much time for reading these days. But when I do get a review posted, like this week’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, it’s a pleasure to connect with other reviewers here–thanks again!

  3. “Maniac Magee” is the 1991 Newbery award winner – one of my favorites so far! I can’t believe I’ve never read anything by Jerry Spinelli so far. Or that I thought I wouldn’t like it.

  4. This week I read three mermaid books. I linked to Thora and the Green-Sea Unicorn by Gillian Johnson (I hope she writes a third.) and also to the latest book by Mitali Perkins, about a blogging daughter of a fictional presidential candidate. Thanks for hosting us, Sherry!

  5. Who decides which books get press (Harry Potter) and which get censored? After all, censorship is becoming America’s favorite past-time. The US gov’t (and their corporate friends), already detain protesters, ban books like “America Deceived” from Amazon and Wikipedia, shut down Imus and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings. Free Speech forever (especially for books).
    Last link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title):
    http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-38523-0

  6. Sorry! Number 83 with only my name and number 84 are the same review. I didn’t realize how this worked at first. I compare two books with the same name.

  7. Hello! I’m really enjoying your site. Found it accidentally, but I do love happy accidents. I linked to a sort of review-ish post from my blog. Hope it qualifies.

  8. I just linked my review / commentary for the book, The Reluctant Disciplinarian by Gary Rubenstein. Hope y’all enjoy. Peace …

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