Saturday Review of Books: February 9, 2008

Feb9

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice . . . and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.”
Gilbert Highet

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. pussreboots (The City)
2. pussreboots (Monkey See, Monkey Do)
3. pussreboots (Hungry Hill)
4. pussreboots (Midnight Sun)
5. Maw Books (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)
6. Maw Books (Penny From Heaven)
7. Maw Books (Hattie Big Sky)
8. pussreboots (There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly)
9. Carrie, Reading to Know (Tom Sawyer)
10. Laura (The Pillars of the Earth)
11. Laura (Lenten Bible reading)
12. Heidi@Mt Hope (Sister Bernadette\’s Barking Dog)
13. Heidi@Mt Hope (For the Children\’s Sake)
14. Book Gal (The Time Traveler\’s Wife)
15. 3M (The Bell Jar)
16. Literary Feline (Merciless)
17. Literary Feline (Tokyo Year Zero)
18. 3M (HP and the Sorcerer\’s Stone)
19. 3M (HP and the Chamber of Secrets)
20. Why Homeschool (A Guidebook to Learning)
21. Framed (Twilight)
22. Framed (I Married the Klondike)
23. Framed (Look Me in the Eye)
24. 3M (The Bluest Eye)
25. Anne (Habits of the Mind)
26. writer2b (Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast)
27. writer2b (The Light of the World)
28. writer2b (Russell Hoban)
29. The Book Smugglers (Twilight)
30. Laura (The Secret River)
31. Hope(Middlemarch)
32. Trish (The Book Thief)
33. SFP (Our Horses in Egypt)
34. Trish (Tender at the Bone)		 35. Joy (Twisted)
36. Just One More Book! Podcast (A Very Unusual Dog)
37. MFS (On the corner of my desk)
38. MFS (Sin in the Second City)
39. Carol (Home to Holly Springs)
40. Jill (Silent in the Sanctuary)
41. Noel (Absolutely True Diary…)
42. Noel (Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow)
43. Amy(The Chatham School Affair)
44. Amy(Drea When You\’re Feeling Blue)
45. Breeni Books (Born in Death)
46. Breeni Books (Deadly Sins-Deadly Secrets)
47. Breeni Books (And Tango Makes Three)
48. Breeni Books (Four Wives)
49. Breeni Books (Incredible Journey)
50. Shelf Elf (Salad People)
51. Becky (Wives and Daughters)
52. Becky (Accidental Time Machine)
53. Becky (On Banks of Plum Creek)
54. Becky (By Shores of Silver Lake)
55. Becky (Long Winter)
56. Eclectically Yours (MouseGuard)
57. Becky (Little Town on the Prairie)
58. Becky (These Happy Golden Years))
59. Becky (First Four Years)
60. Becky (Girl with the White Flag)
61. Becky (Sweethearts)
62. Becky (All of a Kind Family)
63. Becky (Footwork)
64. violet (On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness)
65. Chris@bookarama (The Winter Rose)
66. Chris@bookarama (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
67. Empress of Asia (Nicola)
68. Firewing (Nicola)		 69. The Seeing Stone (Nicola)
70. The Golden Hoard: Myths and Legends of the World (Nicola)
71. Keturah & Lord Death (Nicola)
72. The Reading Zone (Sweethearts)
73. The Reading Zone (Trouble)
74. Mindy Withrow (The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World)
75. Moomin Light (Hogfather)
76. Carol (Three books on England by Susan Allen Toth)
77. Miss Erin (The Year of the Rat)
78. Lynne (Song of Solomon)
79. Alisia (The Road)
80. Sandy D. (Adam of the Road)
81. Terri B. (Dreamers of the Day)
82. Petunia (The Tale of Despereaux)
83. Em (Bass Ackwards & Belly Up)
84. Em (Garden Spells)
85. SuziQoregon (The Winter Queen)
86. SuziQoregon (The Kitchen Boy)
87. Dana (Alexander\’s Wonderful 90 Days)
88. The Book Smugglers (Stardoc)
89. Simply Sandy (my 2007 Books-in-Review)
90. Scribacchina (Mistress)
91. Lauren (City of Dreaming Books)
92. Melissa (The Year of Living BIblically)
93. Mrs. Hill (A War of GIfts)
94. auto-a (The Life of Pi)
95. Nithin (Curtain))
96. Jaimie Bell (100 Cupboards)
97. Tiny (A Great and Terrible Beauty)
98. Lisa (The Winter Rose)
99. Susan (A Bookseller of Kabul)
100. Heather (Never Let Me Go)
101. Heather H (So Say We All)

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8 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: February 9, 2008”

  1. All juvenile fiction this week!

    I’m new to the blogosphere, one of the highlights is coming here every Saturday to see everybody’s great reviews! Thanks!

  2. I always like the quotes you choose. I like the way this one points out that the magic of television has been around for a long time in books.

    Looking forward to reading some good reviews.

  3. This is a great idea, thanks.

    I added two links, one to my review of Twilight and another to my co-blogger’s review of Stardoc – but I forgot to put the book name in brackets! Really sorry. In my defense it is really early and I haven’t had coffee yet! LOL.

  7. “Adam of the Road” is the 1943 Newbery winner – a rather quiet, but beautifully written ramble through 13th century England.

  8. One teen book and one adult book for me this week. Garden Spells is a great book to curl up with this spring…magical and full of new beginnings. 🙂

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