“A nation that does not read for itself cannot think for itself. And a nation that cannot think for itself risks losing both its identity and its freedom.” Laura Bush
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.
9 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: June 14, 2008”
I reviewed a fantasy short story based on a folk song (and included the song on my post also).
Thank you!
I am reading another interesting book. Non-fiction. If I finish it and writ a review I will link that too.
Hope you daughter is better now.
This week I reviewed a book of photography and a Madeleine L’Engle novel. Thank you for hosting this.
Hi– Can’t find your contact info, so (apologies) am posting here to ask if you would like a review copy of my book, Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When?
It’s a small press publication that has surprised me by selling 1,000 copies in its first eight months, and it’s only now making it into the blogosphere…
Here’s the blurb…
Annette Laing, Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When (Book 1, The Snipesville Chronicles) (Confusion Press)
What a nightmare.
Hannah Dias, California Girl with Attitude, and Alex, her laid-back brother, have moved from exciting San Francisco to boring Snipesville, Georgia. Life doesn’t improve when they meet Brandon, a dorky kid who is plotting his escape from the Deep South, and the weird Professor, who has a strange secret.
Suddenly, the kids are catapulted thousands of miles and almost seventy years to England during World War Two.
They fall into a world of stinging nettles, dragon ladies, bomb blasts, ugly underwear, stinky sandwiches, painful punishments, and non-absorbing toilet paper. They learn so much more than they could ever learn in a history class. Not that they want to learn it.
But they can’t go home unless they find George Braithwaite, whoever he is, and whatever it is that he has to do with Snipesville.
Cheers,
Annette
Good morning, all! I finished Grapes of Wrath, and was glad to be done with it. And in a completely different genre, I finished a fantasy graphic novel that I really enjoyed. Happy reading!
Better late than never! It’s great to blog again.
Just posted my review of The Veritas Conflict by Shaunti Feldhahn. Thanks for hosting!
“The Door in the Wall” by Marguerite de Angeli won the Newbery in 1950. I don’t think it’s one of the more popular ones today. I thought it was rather slow and preachy, but it wasn’t bad. Just not one of my favorites. I wish someone else would read it and review it for The Newbery Project (hint, hint).
Thanks for the heads up about this great list. I will be sure to add to it in the coming weeks! As for Dorothy Sayers’ essays: FANTASTIC. I need to read more of her work!
I reviewed a fantasy short story based on a folk song (and included the song on my post also).
Thank you!
I am reading another interesting book. Non-fiction. If I finish it and writ a review I will link that too.
Hope you daughter is better now.
This week I reviewed a book of photography and a Madeleine L’Engle novel. Thank you for hosting this.
Hi– Can’t find your contact info, so (apologies) am posting here to ask if you would like a review copy of my book, Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When?
It’s a small press publication that has surprised me by selling 1,000 copies in its first eight months, and it’s only now making it into the blogosphere…
Here’s the blurb…
Annette Laing, Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When (Book 1, The Snipesville Chronicles) (Confusion Press)
What a nightmare.
Hannah Dias, California Girl with Attitude, and Alex, her laid-back brother, have moved from exciting San Francisco to boring Snipesville, Georgia. Life doesn’t improve when they meet Brandon, a dorky kid who is plotting his escape from the Deep South, and the weird Professor, who has a strange secret.
Suddenly, the kids are catapulted thousands of miles and almost seventy years to England during World War Two.
They fall into a world of stinging nettles, dragon ladies, bomb blasts, ugly underwear, stinky sandwiches, painful punishments, and non-absorbing toilet paper. They learn so much more than they could ever learn in a history class. Not that they want to learn it.
But they can’t go home unless they find George Braithwaite, whoever he is, and whatever it is that he has to do with Snipesville.
Cheers,
Annette
Good morning, all! I finished Grapes of Wrath, and was glad to be done with it. And in a completely different genre, I finished a fantasy graphic novel that I really enjoyed. Happy reading!
Better late than never! It’s great to blog again.
Just posted my review of The Veritas Conflict by Shaunti Feldhahn. Thanks for hosting!
“The Door in the Wall” by Marguerite de Angeli won the Newbery in 1950. I don’t think it’s one of the more popular ones today. I thought it was rather slow and preachy, but it wasn’t bad. Just not one of my favorites. I wish someone else would read it and review it for The Newbery Project (hint, hint).
Thanks for the heads up about this great list. I will be sure to add to it in the coming weeks! As for Dorothy Sayers’ essays: FANTASTIC. I need to read more of her work!