Saturday Review of Books: April 12, 2008

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. Semicolon (Tamar)
2. Semicolon (Book of a Thousand Days)
3. Semicolon (Blood Brothers)
4. Semicolon (The Declaration)
5. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Jerusalem\’s Heart by Bodie and Brock Thoene)
6. Staci at Writing and Living (Vintage Jesus)
7. SuziQoregon (The Eternal Husband and Other Stories)
8. SuziQoregon (London Bridges)
9. pussreboots (The Heart of the Matter)
10. pussreboots (Gregory III)
11. pussreboots (The Other Log of Phileaus Fogg)
12. pussreboots (Dance Hall of the Dead)
13. Reading to Know (If I Gained the World)
14. Miss Erin (The Adoration of Jenna Fox)
15. Miss Erin (Click)
16. Miss Erin (The Willoughbys)
17. Maw Books (Mud City)
18. Maw Books (Tasting the Sky)
19. Maw Books (Change of Heart)
20. valentina (leonardo the terrible monster)
21. valentina (Stardust)
22. valentina (The Spiderwick Chronicles)
23. Bonnie (Will in the World)
24. Bonnie (Bleak House)
25. The Book Smugglers (Grimspace Ana\’s)
26. The Book Smugglers (Grimspace Thea\’s)
27. The Book Smugglers (The Ruins)
28. The Book Smugglers (Demon Night)
29. The Book Smugglers (Marvel Zombies)
30. The Book Smugglers (The Lion\’s Daughter)
31. e-Mom (Generation NeXt Marriage)
32. Hope (“To Build a Fire” by Jack London
33. writer2b (No One Noticed the Cat)
34. Laura (The Piano Tuner)
35. Sarah (The Dot and Ish)
36. Lynne (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
37. Lynne (Change of Heart)
38. Breeni Books (Twisted)
39. Breeni Books (Evacuation Plan)
40. Just One More Book! Podcast (Taj Mahal)
41. Mo (Hemlock Bay)
42. Sage (In Nevada)
43. Joy (And Then There Were None)
44. Coffee Tea Books & Me (Dead Heat & Home to Holly Springs)
45. Stephanie(Neverwhere)
46. Megan (The Beet Queen)
47. Ted (The Last Life,Divisadero, Rough Music)
48. Nicola (Draw Write Now Book 6, Animals & Habitats)
49. Nicola (Payment in Blood)
50. Nicola (More About Little Pear)
51. Nicola (The Arthurian Omen)
52. Nicola (The Silver Treasure: Myths and Legends of the World)
53. Samantha (The Redemption of Sarah Cain)
54. Ruth (Poetry anthologies for children)
55. CoversGirl (The Shadow of the Wind)
56. SmallWorld (A Town Like Alice)
57. Wendy (The Tenderness of Wolves)
58. Wendy (The Sister)
59. Wendy (The Cellist of Sarajevo)
60. Amy(Bootlegger\’s Daughter)
61. Amy(Mayada, Daughter of Iraq)
62. violet (The Cake Thief)
63. Becky (Ramona the Brave)
64. Becky (Ramona the Pest)
65. Becky (Beezus and Ramona)
66. Becky (Camilla)
67. Becky (Prince Caspian)
68. Becky (Sword in Stone)
69. Abiding (20th Cent titles & Between Walden and the Whirlwind)
70. Becky (The King\’s Arrow)
71. Becky (Going for the Record)
72. Becky (Stardust)
73. Becky (Diary of a Young Girl)
74. Noel (The Willoughbys)
75. Noel (Wildwood Dancing)
76. Sassymonkey (Life As We Knew It)
77. Petunia (Slurp: Drinks and Light Fare)
78. BeckyB (Change of Heart)
79. Becky (Perfect You)
80. Camy (A Walk With Jane Austen)
81. Mervi (Unnatural Death)
82. 3m (Kanada)
83. 3m (Kaddish for a Child Not Born)
84. gautami tripathy (Twelve Read Herrings)
85. Isabella (The Enchantress of Florence)
86. Darla D (Amulet of Samarkand))
87. Darla D (Undead and Unappreciated)
88. Darla D (Embrace the Night)
89. Darla D (The Secret of Priest\’s Grotto)
90. Darla D (Anansi Boys)
91. Chris@bookarama (Ask Again Later)
92. Harvee
93. Darla (The Caliph\’s House)
94. Becky (Christian fiction)
95. Janelle (Lavinia)
96. Dana (Big Cherry Holler)
97. Maria (Revenge)
98. Nithin (Miracle)
99. Nithin (Bleachers)
100. Lezlie (African Trilogy)

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5 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: April 12, 2008

  1. Thanks for hosting this each week! I gave up blogging everything except my book reviews, so this is my only blog “outlet.” I also am going to try to join you for your Biblically Literate Book Club. However, the first selection really depends on the speed I get it through interlibrary loan.

  2. Thanks as always Sherry! And I have to add a super big thank you for writing up a post about the book review database I’ve been putting together. I neglected to let you know that I appreciated it!

  3. Another double-duty Poetry Friday post this week – children’s poetry anthologies from our shelves.

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