Saturday Review of Books: July 13, 2013

“In general, summer oughtn’t be an extension of school: It should be a time for idleness and part-time jobs and hanging out, for mowing grass or souping up cars, for rainy-day Monopoly games and Dr. Moreau-like experiments on hapless insects (“The House of Pain!”), for getting bored and exploring what used to be called one’s inner resources. And for reading purely, solely, entirely for the fun of it.” ~Michael Dirda

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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. Amy @ Hope is the Word (Runaway Dolls)
2. Amy @ Hope is the Word (Seasons of a Mother’s Heart bookclub)
3. Aloi @ Guiltless Reading (This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila)
4. Aloi @ Guiltless Reading (Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano)
5. Aloi @ Guiltless Reading (Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos)
6. Aloi @ Guiltless Reading (Sight Reading by Daphne Kalotay)
7. Barbara H. (The Magician’s Nephew)
8. Aloi @ Guiltless Reading (The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro)
9. Barbara H. (The Mitford Books)
10. Aloi @ Guiltless Reading (And the Soft Wind Blows by Lance Umenhofer)
11. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Saga Volume Two)
12. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
13. Hope (The Man Who Knew Too Much)
14. Hope (Cy Whittaker’s Place)
15. Glynn Young (Activist Faith)
16. Beckie @ ByTheBook (A Matter of Trust)
17. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Wings of Glass)
18. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Mystery of The Heart)
19. Lazygal (The Tudor Conspiracy)
20. Lazygal (Bloodlines)
21. Lazygal (A Conspiracy of Faith)
22. Lazygal (Shatter the Bones)
23. Lazygal (The Ghost Riders of Ordebec)
24. Lazygal (The Bone Season)
25. Lazygal (Seven for A Secret)
26. Lazygal (A History of Merton College)
27. dawn (Tending the Heart of Virtue)
28. Susanne~LivingToTell (One Summer)
29. Cherrytea (Mama’s Going to Buy You a Mockingbird)
30. Lisa (The Butterfly Sister)
31. Becky (Fatherless)
32. Becky (Heaven)
33. Becky (Love Takes Wing)
34. Becky (Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart)
35. Becky (Year of the Book)
36. Becky (Big Guy Took My Ball)
37. Becky (Case of Cautious Coquette)
38. Becky (Death on the Nile)
39. Becky (Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass)
40. Becky (I Saw Esau)
41. Thoughts of Joy (Whodunnit?)
42. Thoughts of Joy (The Light Between Oceans)
43. Brittanie (TJ and the Time Stumblers: Switched!)
44. Gina Burgess (Angels in the Fire)
45. Annie Kate (Cooked by Michael Pollan)
46. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Emma & Knightley)

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2 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: July 13, 2013

  1. I noted the entry for The Mitford books above. My wife is a major fan, but I haven’t read them. Perhaps this is the nudge I need. Thanks for hosting, Sherry.

  2. Sherry, you’ve got a perfect description of summer there! I can almost feel those days in the past…but they’re not really here now that I’m grown up. That has to change, don’t you think?

    Glynn, the Mitford books (first series) are wonderful. I didn’t like the second series so much.

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