Saturday Review of Books: July 26, 2014

“The aura of a book I have yet to read, with its promise of rapture, surprise and edification, might be even more powerful than the aura of a book I have read, enjoyed and duly forgotten.” ~Jeff Salamanacters

SatReviewbuttonWelcome 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.

Scroll down to the next post to help with my 50 states nonfiction booklist project. What nonfiction book will inform the reader about your state?

3 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: July 26, 2014

  1. I like that quote a lot. I always get excited to read a new book for the things that are yet unknown, but sometimes re-reading a book holds such fine memories. Thanks again for hosting all the links!

  2. Good morning! I’m not sure I agree with that quote. I think it misses the important distinction of books we read for enjoyment (the murder mystery I read, and the working mom book) and those we read for edification and pleasure (Walden, which I read for the first time.)

    Apologies to fellow Saturday Morning Reviewers if I’ve already posted some of these–it’s been so long since I’ve visited that I lost track of what I last posted.

    Happy reading and writing, fellow bloggers!

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