Saturday Review of Books: December 15, 2007

Posted by Sherry on Dec 14, 2007 in General |

A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.”
Anatole Broyard

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. Bonnie (Huck Finn)
2. Miss Erin (A Curse Dark As Gold)
3. Literary Feline (Silence of the Grave)
4. Literary Feline (Dervishes)
5. Literary Feline (Cries and Whiskers)
6. Cathy (Winter Lights)
7. Carrie, Reading to Know (Mary Poppins)
8. Clean Reads (A Crooked Kind of Perfect)
9. Clean Reads (Iris, Messenger)
10. Joy (Girl in Hyacinth Blue)
11. gautami tripathy (For the Love of Rachel)
12. Lynne (World of Pies)
13. Lynne (Empty the Ocean with a Spoon)
14. Lynne (So Big)
15. Laura (The Art of Mending)
16. Laura (The Master and Margarita)
17. SmallWorld (The Lady and the Unicorn)
18. SmallWorld (A River Runs Through It and Other Stories)
19. Sage (Deep Survival)
20. Just One More Book! Podcast (Humphrey\’s First Christmas)
21. 5MinforBooks (Great parenting book)
22. Cathy (The First Night)
23. Shelf Elf (Clarice Bean, Don\’t Look Now)
24. Amy (Replay by Sharon Creech)

25. 3M (This Year It Will Be Different)
26. gautami tripathy (Sunset Embrace–Historical Romance)
27. BookGal (Bury the Lead)
28. Library & Literary Miscellany (Twisted)
29. Phyllis (Everything Good Will Come)
30. The Reading Zone (Wednesday Wars)
31. violet (The Parting)
32. BookGal (T is for Trespass)
33. Wendy (Disgrace)
34. Wendy (The Emperor\’s Children)
35. Nicola (Do-it-yourself Magic)
36. Nicola (The Stupidest Angel)
37. Nicola (Holes)
38. Nicola (A Faint Cold Fear)
39. Afterthoughts (Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and PDD)
40. Sam Houston (The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die)
41. Sam Houston (Sons and Other Flammable Objects)
42. Petunia (No Plot? No Problem!)
43. Petunia (Endurance)
44. The Autumn Rain (Teaching a Stone to Talk)
45. Heather (The Winter Rose)
46. Lazy Cow
47. Girl Detective (Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together)
48. Girl Detective (Runaways v. 1)

49. Girl Detective (Good as Lily)
50. Alisia (Esperanza Rising)
51. Breeni Books (Teach Like Your Hair\’s On Fire)
52. Felicity (The View from Saturday)
53. Jen Robinson (Someone Named Eva)
54. MFS (On the corner of my desk)
55. Sandy D. (Call It Courage))
56. MarieT (Possession)
57. Sandy D. (The Matchlock Gun)
58. Marina (A Tuscan Childhood)
59. Marina (Miracle, and Other Christmas Stories)
60. Framed )The Batchelor Brothers Bed & Breakfast
61. Framed (The Shepherd, the Angel and Walter the Christmad Miracle Dog)
62. Framed (Crow Lake)
63. Darla D (Blood Bound)
64. Jennifer (To Kill a Mockingbird)
65. Stephanie (Booked to Die)
66. Stephanie(Christmas Jars)
67. Chrisbookarama (The Long Stretch)
68. 3M (Ishmael)
69. 3M (The Shipping News)
70. Ariel (Achilles to Christ)
71. ChristineMM (Crazy for God)
72. Carl V. (A Brief History of the Dead)

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking.

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Saturday Reviews: Alphabetical by Title. (an unfinished list)

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9 Comments

Bonnie says:

12/15/2007 at 12:02 am

Just taking another look at a classic.
Amy says:

12/15/2007 at 9:03 am

I got back into reading some juvenile fiction this week.
Laura says:

12/15/2007 at 11:25 am

Taking a look at one of this year’s hot titles for young adults. Thanks for compiling reviews.
Girl Detective says:

12/15/2007 at 4:38 pm

Three young adult graphic novels this week. One very good, one very funny, and one fairly lame. In a complete tone shift, I started reading Mary Gaitskill. I have literary whiplash.
Lazy Cow says:

12/15/2007 at 4:41 pm

I’ve linked to my Bookgroup books roundup for 2007. Thanks!
Sandy D. says:

12/15/2007 at 9:03 pm

I did two more Newbery winners this week – the 1941 winner (Call It Courage), recommended – and the 1942 winner (The Matchlock Gun), not recommended.
Marina says:

12/15/2007 at 11:05 pm

Only two this week, one Christmas collection, and a memoir. Next week, I hope to have an essay collection by Nora Ephron, a classic young adult novel, and a few others *crosses fingers*
ChristineMM aka The Thinking Mother says:

12/18/2007 at 1:37 pm

Can’t believe I forgot to post what I had blogged about last week. Just put it in. I’m reading Crazy for God, a memoir by Francis Schaeffer. Update since I blogged about it: I am half way through the 400 page book. It is very read-able, entertaining and Schaeffer is a very good storyteller. It starts with his early childhood and more or less progresses forward through his life, I’m at his teen years now but not yet at where he gets his girlfriend pregnant and marries her.
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12/21/2007 at 8:33 am

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