Saturday Review of Books: August 31, 2013

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations––such is a pleasure beyond compare.” ~Yosida Kenko

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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. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Miss Julia Renews Her Vows)
2. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Drops of God Vol. 2)
3. Beth@Weavings (The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 1)
4. Alex in Leeds (Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther)
5. Hope (Complete Surrender – Biography of Eric Liddell)
6. Glynn (Seamus Heaney)
7. Beckie @ ByTheBook (To Honor And Trust)
8. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Wishing on Willows)
9. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Hero’s Lot)
10. Beckie @ ByTheBook (A Cast of Stones)
11. Annie Kate (The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good)
12. Annie Kate (A Simple Change)
13. Annie Kate (Whispers on the Dock)
14. jama’s alphabet soup (Allergies, Away!)
15. jama’s alphabet soup (Pizza in Pienza)
16. Thoughts of Joy (Rodzina)
17. Thoughts of Joy (How to Be a Good Wife)
18. Thoughts of Joy (The Good House)
19. Becky (Captives)
20. Becky (Undaunted)
21. Becky (How To Make Friends and Monsters)
22. Becky (On Distant Shores)
23. Becky (2 You Wouldn’t Want To Be Nonfiction PB)
24. Becky (The Tollgate)
25. Becky (The Boy on the Bridge)
26. Becky (Paradox)
27. Becky (Solstice)
28. Becky (Mary Poppins Comes Back)
29. Girl Detective (The Cat Ate my Gymsuit)
30. Girl Detective (The Glass Castle)
31. Girl Detective (This Boy’s Life)
32. Girl Detective (The Karamazov Brothers)
33. Guiltless Reading (However Long the Night)
34. Guiltless Reading (And the Soft Wind Blows by Lance Umenhofer)
35. Guiltless Reading (I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag by Jennifer Gilbert)
36. Guiltless Reading (Tiger Babies Strike Back by Kim Wong Keltner)
37. Guiltless Reading (A Whisper in the Jungle by Robert Mwangi)
38. Guiltless Reading (The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro)
39. Guiltless Reading (Persephone’s Torch: A Novel in Three Acts by freder)
40. Guiltless Reading (The Clock of Life by Nancy Klann-Moren)
41. Guiltless Reading (TSight Reading by Daphne Kalotay)
42. Guiltless Reading (Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russell)
43. dawn (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
44. preceptcamden (Life After Art)
45. Brenda (Fyre by Angie Sage)
46. Sally @ Classic Children’s Books (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
47. Susanne~LivingToTell (The Chance)
48. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen)
49. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (His Majesty’s Dragon)

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