There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” Joseph Brodsky
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.
7 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: December 8, 2007”
I reviewed “The Yellow Wallpaper” this week–a 19th-century short story well worth reading! Thanks for the opportunity to share it.
I blogged this week three things I’m reading.
The Fattening of America is an economists analyst of why Americans are getting fatter and how we should handle our own bodies for the best health. This is a pre-publication ARC (pub date Jan 2008).
Anthony…is a self-published book of a 12 year old boy who can go back in time and talk to and witness important events in history. My boys 7 and 10 really enjoy this. It looks like a coffee table book.
Dr. Slump is manga which my children wanted to read so I let them. After they started asking questions which made me realize perhaps this really was for teens, so I read it. Yowza. I regret letting them read this.
I finally finished Ellison’s Invisible Man. A difficult read for me, but worthwhile.
Great quote! I love it.
“Unstrange Minds” was enlightening – recommended if you’re at all interested in autism and its prevalence today.
Better late than never! Blogged about a Christian novel by a favorite author–Bodie Thoene.
I managed to get four reviews posted this week… am trying harder to both keep up with current reads and catch up on long-overdue reviews.
I’m hoping to have A Tuscan Childhood, Miracle and Other Christmas Stories, and perhaps Cry of the Kalahari finished off next week.
I reviewed “The Yellow Wallpaper” this week–a 19th-century short story well worth reading! Thanks for the opportunity to share it.
I blogged this week three things I’m reading.
The Fattening of America is an economists analyst of why Americans are getting fatter and how we should handle our own bodies for the best health. This is a pre-publication ARC (pub date Jan 2008).
Anthony…is a self-published book of a 12 year old boy who can go back in time and talk to and witness important events in history. My boys 7 and 10 really enjoy this. It looks like a coffee table book.
Dr. Slump is manga which my children wanted to read so I let them. After they started asking questions which made me realize perhaps this really was for teens, so I read it. Yowza. I regret letting them read this.
I finally finished Ellison’s Invisible Man. A difficult read for me, but worthwhile.
Great quote! I love it.
“Unstrange Minds” was enlightening – recommended if you’re at all interested in autism and its prevalence today.
Better late than never! Blogged about a Christian novel by a favorite author–Bodie Thoene.
I managed to get four reviews posted this week… am trying harder to both keep up with current reads and catch up on long-overdue reviews.
I’m hoping to have A Tuscan Childhood, Miracle and Other Christmas Stories, and perhaps Cry of the Kalahari finished off next week.