Saturday Review of Books: October 12, 2013

“I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.” ~Tahereh Mafi

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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. Becky (Twelfth Night/Shakespeare)
2. Becky (Caroline the Queen/Plaidy)
3. Becky (The Last Dragonslayer)
4. Becky (Divergent)
5. Becky (Great Tales from English History #2)
6. Becky (Five Picture Books)
7. Becky (Mistress Pat)
8. Becky (Faith of My Fathers)
9. Becky (Among the Gods)
10. Becky (Thoughts To Make Your Heart Sing)
11. Becky (Under A Blackberry Moon)
12. Alex in Leeds (Howards End is on the Landing)
13. Harvee @ Book Dilettante (The Case of the Love Commandos)
14. Reading World (Rose Under Fire)
15. Reading World (Marie Curie and Her Daughters)
16. Reading World (Private Life)
17. 5 books on my future reading list
18. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library)
19. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Magic Half)
20. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Armchair Cybils)
21. Barbara H. (Whom God Hath Joined)
22. Barbara H. (Evidence Not Seen)
23. Barbara H. (John Paton)
24. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Mortal Bonds)
25. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Runaways vol. 1: Pride & Joy)
26. Beth@Weavings (Daniel Plainway)
27. Glynn (My Bright Abyss)
28. Glynn (New Light for the Old Dark)
29. Glynn (the Ninety-Third Name for God)
30. the Ink Slinger (Good Omens)
31. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (Deadly Choices)
32. Janet (Pagan Christianity)
33. Girl Detective (The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Ship that Sank Twice)
34. Girl Detective (This Lullabye)
35. Girl Detective (Henry IV part 1)
36. Girl Detective (Henry IV part 2)
37. Girl Detective (Wicked)
38. Becky (Does Prayer Change Things)
39. Sally @ Classic Children’s Books (Corduroy)
40. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Murder by Syllabub)
41. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Return to Me)
42. Brenda (The Ambrose Beacon)
43. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (Jenny Pox)
44. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (The Weight of Souls)
45. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (The English German Girl)
46. Annie Kate (Mathematics: Is God Silent?)
47. Annie Kate (Bride for Keeps)

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5 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: October 12, 2013

  1. I love looking through these reviews each week – I always end up adding so many books to my TBR list. 🙂 Thanks for hosting!

  2. Thanks for the link up. I linked up one of the more important books I’ve read this year, Mathematics: Is God Silent? (#46)

    It discusses the history of math and shows how philosophy affects the process and value of mathematics. It is also a stellar example of someone reinterpreting a whole field in the light of biblical thought. Enlightening!

    Because it’s an essential question for homeschoolers and everyone else: Does God have anything to say about mathematics? Is there a Christian way to teach math, or is it a neutral subject on which an atheist and a believer would agree?

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