Saturday Review of Books: June 28, 2008

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
Robertson Davies

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. Carrie K. (Maus)
2. Laura (China Lake)
3. Carrie K. (Anansi Boys)
4. Carrie K. (Great audiobooks)
5. Carrie, RtK (Experiencing the Resurrection)
6. gautami tripathy (The Book Thief)
7. gautami tripathy (Once Upon a Time When We Were Coloured))
8. gautami tripathy (Mistress of th Revolution))
9. gautami tripathy (Perfect On Paper)
10. Sage (Deep Change)
11. gautami tripathy (The Unconsoled)
12. Dana (Homeschool:An American History)
13. Bonnie (Robinson Crusoe)
14. Semicolon (Tennyson)
15. Bonnie (Volsunga Saga)
16. Semicolon (Chasing Normal)
17. Semicolon (The Man Who Was Thursday))
18. pussreboots (No More Monsters for Me)
19. pussreboots (Operation Ghost)
20. pussreboots (At Her Majesty\’s Request)
21. Petunia (I Capture the Castle)
22. Petunia (Shakespeare: The World as Stage)
23. Petunia (Mirror, Mirror on the Wall)
24. Petunia (Admit One)
25. Hope (Lady Audley\’s Secret)
26. Krakovianka (This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen)
27. Marg (In the Night Garden)
28. writer2b (Ender\’s Game)
29. The Book Smugglers (Dead to the World)
30. The Book Smugglers (Club Dead)
31. The Book Smugglers (Shades of Dark)
32. DebD (Portrait of a Lady)
33. Sarah N. (The Minpins)
34. Lynne (Divorcing Dwayne)
35. Lynne (The Book of Bright Ideas)
36. Lynne (The Last Time I Was Me)
37. Lynne (Fearless Fourteen)
38. Lynne (Hospital)
39. SmallWorld Reads (A Beginning, a Muddle and an End)
40. SmallWorld Reads (I Have Lived a Thousand Years)
41. Joy (Maus II)
42. Stephanie(Freaks)
43. Stephanie(The Host)
44. Jennifer (Nature Girl)
45. MFS (The Film Club)
46. writer2b (The Red Castle Women)
47. Word Lily (Bloody Point)
48. Trish (Springtime on Mars)
49. SuziQoregon (American Eve)
50. SuziQoregon (Pawleys Island)
51. Violet (The Forbidden)
52. Kerry (The Road)
53. Nicola (The White Mary)
54. Nicola (Vampire Mountain)
55. Nicola (Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer)
56. Nicola (Five True Dog Stories)
57. Katrina (Elizabeth Costello)
58. Girl Detective (Dispatches)
59. Girl Detective (A Doonesbury Collection)
60. Katrina (The Space Between Us)
61. Girl Detective (Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom)
62. david e (shooting the moon)
63. Josette (Does My Head Look Big In This?)
64. Becky (I Am Scout)
65. Becky (Lost Queen)
66. Becky (No, That\’s Wrong)
67. Becky (Looks)
68. Becky (The Queen\’s Soprano)
69. Becky (Napoleon\’s Privates)
70. Becky (How To Be A Baby By Me The Big Sister)
71. Becky (Wynken, Blynken and Nod)
72. Becky (My Friend the Monster)
73. Becky (Caps for Sale)
74. Becky (What\’s Inside Your Tummy, Mommy)
75. Becky (Beep, Beep)
76. Sandy D. (The Twenty-One Balloons)
77. Alessandra (Aberrations)
78. Alessandra (Half of a Yellow Sun)
79. Alessandra (The Lovely Bones)
80. Alessandra (Slam)
81. Alessandra (Backwater)
82. Queen of Carrots (Vanity Fair)
83. Benjie (First the Dead)
84. Mrs S | Blue Archipelago (Anne of Green Gables)
85. Mrs S | Blue Archipelago (Never Let me Go)
86. Daniel (The Great DIvorce)
87. Cheri (Hometown Tales)
88. Rosie (Loose Girl)
89. Rosie (A Thousand Splendid Suns)
90. Katie (Gilead)
91. Katie (The NIne)
92. Daze (The Spirit of the Disciplines)
93. Kristen (Love Is a MIx Tape)
94. Darla D (The Door to Time)
95. Darla D (Ink Exchange)
96. Darla D (Wintersmith)
97. Darla D (T is for Trespass)
98. Darla D (Secret in the Tower)
99. Darla D (Reserved for the Cat)
100. Darla D (Full Moon Rising)
101. Josette (Crazy Fool Kills Five)
102. Kate (Get A Clue)
103. Kathryn (Recipe for Murder)
104. Shonda (Change of Heart)

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6 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: June 28, 2008

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  2. Good morning, readers! I read more on the Vietnam War, then a Hellboy graphic novel for a change of pace. I know that a graphic novel about a monster- and demon-fighting creature might not be everyone’s cuppa, but Hellboy, who is a reformed demon who fights for good and is constantly being tempted to the dark side, is an interesting hero.

  3. This week I reviewed the 1948 Newbery winner, “The Twenty-One Balloons”. I was absolutely amazed by how much both my son & I loved it, and a bit dismayed that I’d never heard of it before. I would have loved it as a kid, too, which you can’t say about all of the Newbery winners. I can’t figure out why this book isn’t better known.

  4. Hi Sherry–

    I just wanted to drop you a note. Until today I was unfamiliar with your blog. (which was my loss) However, I received a comment regarding someone finding me via your site. Someone had posted a picture and excerpt from book I recently read on your Mr. Linky. However, it was not me. I realize in the grand jist that this is basically a no harm, no foul issue-but it’s just a little weird that someone trolled my blog to post to yours.(re: entry #87) I realize there is nothing you can do to prevent this, but I did want to make you aware that it had happened.

  5. Sherry-

    Thank you for the clarification. I don’t mind, I would have appreciated a heads up, but I am honored you liked my review enough to post it. Thank you.

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