Saturday Review of Books: September 1, 2007

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
S.I. Hayakawa

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. Laura (Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure)
2. Veronica (Pigeon Pie)
3. Carrie K. (The Eyre Affair)
4. gautami tripathy (Portrait of an artist as an young man)
5. gautami tripathy (Death of A salesman)
6. gautami tripathy (Nectar in A sieve)
7. gautami tripathy (Frankenstein)
8. gautami tripathy (outlaw–historical romance)
9. Stephen (Engleby)
10. Sage (Subduing Satan)
11. Lynne (Straight Man)
12. Stephen (If You Liked School, You\’ll Love Work)
13. Laura (Arthur and George)
14. Laura (Heat and Dust)
15. Joy (The Tortilla Curtain)
16. SFP (Butcher\’s Crossing)
17. Mama Squirrel (King of Shadows)
18. MFS (Writing to Learn (Zinsser) and “Why I Write” (Orwell) embedded in a meta-blogging post
19. Julie (Eggs)
20. Mindy Withrow (review essay of 6 novels with spiritual significance)
21. CoversGirl (Rebecca)
22. blest(This Is Your Brain on Music)
23. Lauren@Baseballs&Bows(Emma)
24. Chicken Spaghetti
25. Nicola (Secret Seven Adventure)
26. Nicola (Rebel Angels)
27. Nicola (I Know What You Did Last Summer)		 28. Barbara H. (The Potluck Club Takes the Cake)
29. Musings of a Lady (Water Street)
30. Framed (East)
31. Framed (English Creek)
32. Barbara H. (Sometimes I Prefer to Fuss)
33. Clean Reads (Uglies)
34. Diana
35. Diana (Education of a Wandering Man)
36. Wendy (The Country of the Pointed Firs)
37. Gina (The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao)
38. Phil (The Chess Machine)
39. Carol (The Pearl)
40. DeputyHeadmistress (Charlotte Mason How-to Books)
41. Becky (Dragon\’s keep)
42. Becky (Among the Enemy)
43. Becky (War of the Worlds)
44. Becky (Frankenstein)
45. Becky (While We Were Out)
46. Becky (The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells)
47. Becky (Vampirates: Tide of Terror)
48. Becky (Journey to the Center of the Earth)
49. Becky (The Island of Dr. Moreau)
50. Becky (Feathers)
51. Becky (The Gorilla Did It)
52. Becky (Does My Head Look Big In This?)
53. Becky (A Woman\’s Place)
54. Becky (The Boy Who Would Not Go To School)		 55. Miss Erin (Constance Savery)
56. Miss Erin (Elisabeth Kyle)
57. Dana (The Judgement of Paris)
58. Em (Boy Toy)
59. SmallWorld (The Book Thief)
60. ChristineMM “The Thinking Mother” (The Over-Scheduled Child)
61. J.R. (Walking on Water)
62. Valentina (The Giver)
63. Mo (The Third Secret)
64. Mo (North of Montana)
65. Chris (Crime & Punishment)
66. Chris (The Thirteenth Tale)
67. Ariel (Ain\’t Too Proud to Beg)
68. Lisa (How to Improve your Marriage without Talking about It)
69. 5 Min for Mom (The Other Mother)
70. 5 Min for Mom (Meghan Rose early chap books)
71. Verbivore (Falling Man)
72. Lydia (Billy Bathgate)
73. Stephanie(Marley & Me)
74. Robin (A Study in Scarlet)
75. patti digh (Us and Them)
76. Sam Houston (Don\’t Look Back)
77. Sam Houston (The Thursday Night Letters)
78. Benjie (Skin)
79. NyssaNeala (Ahab\’s Wife)
80. Becky (Our Seasons)

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9 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: September 1, 2007”

  1. My book this week was an exploration book set in Labrador. For me it ranked right up there with the exploits of Scott, Amundsen, Peary, and others.

  2. I finished two more books this week for Saturday Review challenge:

    Death of a Salesman
    Nactar in a Sieve

    along with

    tuesdays with Morrie
    Leave it to Psmith

    Thats make it four in total.

  3. I’m curious to hear others’ responses to Jerry Spinelli’s “Eggs.” Did you like the characters?

    Sherry, thanks for stopping by my blog last week. I hope you enjoy “Dragon’s Keep” as much as I did!

  4. Hi Sherry! I read This Is Your Brain on Music awhile back. It’s the work of a neuropsychologist who also happens to be a professional musician. I’m primarily blogging it for my Asperger’s site…but it is such interesting stuff!!

    I do recommend the book -but one may want to skim the obligatory evolution mumbo jumbo

  5. Thanks for linking up the reviews on Saturdays.

    I left a link for a new book of nonfiction for adults, “The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese,” by Margaret Hathaway.

  6. So sorry – haven’t had my coffee yet! I forgot to add the title after my name on my first attempt. Feel free to delete that one.

  7. I’ve been listening to Steinbeck, compliments of my local library. The Pearl is a short novella about a man who found a great pearl and the impact that find had on his life. Think lottery winners.

  8. Boy Toy is a teen novel that I fully expect to see on the Banned Books list next year, and for that reason, you shouldn’t miss it.

  9. Thanks for the links list! Very interesting to see what everyone is reading. I’m on to Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, and Sin by Josephine Hart. Does anyone else keep a separate book upstairs and downstairs? 🙂

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